Bathing in Crude: Villages Sick After Oil Spill

Barbara Fraser
2/25/16
After a heavy rain washed a huge oil slick down the Chiriaco River in northern Peru, 12-year-old Elías Taijín Rivera recalls, a man in a pickup truck offered to pay villagers in th...

Gold King Mine Could Have Been Prevented

ICTMN Staff
11/15/15
Just shy of three months after the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally triggered what has become known as the Gold King Mine spill on August 5, 2015, Sen...

Uranium Mining: Book Explores the ‘Wastelanding’ of the Navajo Nation

Tanya H. Lee
9/18/15
The sad history of uranium mining and the desolation it has wrought across tracts of Navajo country has been the subject of numerous studies, articles and surveys...

Smallmouth Bass With Cancer Caught in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River

ICTMN Staff
5/5/15
Environmental experts are reeling from the disclosure that a tumor on a smallmouth bass caught last year in the Susquehanna River is malignant, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commi...

Where Are They Now? 5 Updated Environmental Stories to Keep on the Radar

Terri Hansen
1/27/15
Indigenous cultures across the globe take many forms...

EPA to Develop Federal Clean Water Standards for Washington, if State Won’t

Terri Hansen
12/26/14
The U.S...

EPA Climate Justice Blog: Delivering on the Promise of the Clean Water Act

Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator
12/23/14
On January 9th of this year, concerned citizens noticed a chemical odor floating down the Elk River Valley toward Charleston, West Virginia...

Executives and Employees of Company That Poisoned W.Va. Drinking Water Indicted

ICTMN Staff
12/20/14
Four executives and two other employees of the company associated with the chemical spill that poisoned drinking water for 300,000 people for weeks in West Virginia last January, i...

More Briny Wastewater Spills into Fort Berthold Soil

ICTMN Staff
8/28/14
There has been a second leak of briny wastewater from oil production on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, this time 3,000 barrels, or 126,000 gallons...

Los Angeles Times Profiles Glaring Safety Gaps in Mysterious NM Nuclear Accident

ICTMN Staff
8/26/14
It burbled up like whipped cream out of a spray can, but it was radioactive...

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