Cowpens Brownfield and Lowered Environmental Expectations
The Spartanburg Herald Journal reports today on a toxic spill in Cowpens, SC. The brownfield was created in the years 1969-90 through the dumping of waste from a textile mill into the soil under the...
View ArticleOxfam: Rural Poor In Nepal Face Hunger From Climate Change
Read the full report here: http://www.oxfam.org.nz/resources/onlinereports/nepal%20climate%20change_full%20report%20final.pdf
View ArticleStop Cliffside: Protesters Chain Themselves to “Superload” Generator in...
Several dozen protesters organized by Rising Tide took part in a worldwide day of action against global warming by protesting Duke Power’s new coal-fired 1.5-million pound generator as it passed...
View ArticleDec. 11 Vigils in support of the Copenhagen Summit @ Charlotte and Conway
December 11 is a world-wide day of action in support of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Local folks in Charlotte and Conway are getting globally involved by holding...
View ArticleStop Cliffside: two hearings on January 14
The North Carolina Division of Air Quality will sponsor a January 14 hearing in Forest City, NC at Chase High School concerning the Cliffside Coal Plant. The meeting place is about 8 miles from the...
View ArticleWeather isn’t Climate: UK Blizzard
I’ll get back to South Carolina-centric things in a moment, after a word or two about the UK blizzard. Back in the 1980′s, new computer climate modeling suggested that the lessening of the differences...
View ArticleCommunity Sponsored Farming Outside Knoxville
From the journal n+1: The farm sits on a hill an hour northeast of Knoxville. It encompasses sixty acres, but only one and a half are devoted to garden produce—beans, kale, corn, squash, carrots,...
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