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06/14/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Radioactive water being stored at the Fukushima power plant approaches the limit; Japanese officials still have no plan to dispose of it

There’s almost no more room for anymore storage tanks at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) nuclear reactor site in Fukushima, Japan, which means that very soon there won’t be any way to dispose of the ever-growing amount of treated water, also known as tritium water, that continues to accumulate within the disaster area. Neither […]

05/16/2018 / By Carol Anderson

State-owned chemical company in China found to be illegally dumping toxic chemical waste

If it is frustrating that many privately-owned chemical companies across the globe are damaging the environment and threatening our health, it’s even more distressing to find out there are state-owned businesses who are notoriously contributing to the aggravating case of pollution. Shanxi Sanwei Group Co. Ltd., is under hot waters for another environmental violation issue. Two […]

01/06/2017 / By JD Heyes

Canada spends hundreds of millions to ‘clean up’ abandoned heavy metal mines but still can’t reuse the land

It seems as though big government bureaucracy is just as wasteful and inefficient in other Western democracies as it is in the United States—a problem that, we hope, will be solved by President Donald J. Trump. As reported by Canada’s National Post, the country has spent more than $350 million taxpayer dollars over many years […]

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