By Anne Cacherell On August 5, Wednesday, a crew of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water into the Animas River from the abandoned Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado. The water is full of heavy metals and is carrying more than 300x times the safe levels of arsenic…
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This Town Has a Devastating Story of an American Dream Gone Wrong
By Anne Cacherell The American dream goes horribly wrong when people choose opportunity over humanity and when they pursue fortune over morality. Libby, Montana is a 2004 documentary film about the worst case of widespread exposure to a toxic contaminant in the history of America. It tells the tragic story of a small, mountainside town…
This Artist Is Using His Talents as a Voice For Wildlife Ravished By Pollution
By Jack Day Artur Bordalo is not just good at what he does, he’s also an inspiring human being. In order to bring more attention to environmental problems around the globe, he decided to combine two opposing forces into giant works of street art. By using trash, scrap metal, and various other discarded forms of…
