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worse than roundup
Earth Focus
Worried About Roundup? Worry Harder About Atrazine.
Post date:While Monsanto's weed killer gets all the attention, atrazine is quietly harming wildlife and human health.
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fossil fuels
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SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Leak a Disaster For Climate
Post date:SoCalGas' natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon just wiped out your climate gains.
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borderlands
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New Law Offers New Hope for America's Dirtiest River
Post date:The New River, once the dirtiest river in the United States, might actually have a chance to become an environmental success story after all.
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arsenic
Food
California Wines Cited for High Levels of Arsenic
Post date:A lawsuit claims that inexpensive California wines, including a variety from Charles Shaw, contains high levels of arsenic. But why is there arsenic in the wine in the first place?
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asthma
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The EPA Just Ripped California's Big Renewable Energy Plan
Post date:The EPA's feedback may cause the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan's authors even more work.
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fossil fuels
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Fracking, Benzene, and Public Health: A California Nightmare
Post date:Scary-high levels of benzene are in fracking wastewater sites. Why has California not stopped this from happening?
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BP
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Environment Largely Unmentioned in State of the Union
Post date:The environment was essentially a no-show in the 2015 State of the Union Speech.
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EPA
Earth Focus
Prescription Drugs are Polluting Our Waters
Post date:The outdated FDA advice to flush medicines down the toilet does more harm than good to our water system.
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KCET Press Releases
Press Room
KCET's Award-Winning Weekly Series 'SOCAL CONNECTED' Explores the Controversy of Transporting Millions of Tons of Treated L.A. Sewage to a Farm Near Bakersfield
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Food
Another Drought Casualty: Honey
Post date:As if the bees didn't have it tough enough already, the drought is taking away their food. And with it, our honey.
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California
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New Map by UCLA Shows Factory Toxins in L.A. County
Post date:Earlier this month UCLA launched a new interactive map tracking the impact of emissions from local factories on the environment in Los Angeles County.
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mammals
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Griffith Park Mountain Lion's Health Improves
Post date:Good news for those worried about LA's mountain lion P-22, whose health took a hit after the animal contracted a bad case of mange linked to ingesting rodent poisons. The big cat's doing better, at least for the time being, after a bit of veterinary ca...
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Center for Biological Diversity
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Not Far Enough: Some Say EPA's Climate Rules Need to do More
Post date:The U.S Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants on Monday.
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bobcats
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Rat Poison Company to Discontinue Household Products
Post date:A company that sells rodent poisons that have been implicated in the deaths of a wide range of wildlife is agreeing to remove some of those products from the over-the-counter market, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday.
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fish
Redefine
Swordfish Catching Technique Could Be Banned to Protect Other Marine Life
Post date:A bill in Sacramento would ban the use of drift gillnets in California waters due to what opponents call an unacceptably high level of harm the nets cause to marine mammals, sea turtles, and other non-target wildlife.
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Clean Air Act
SoCal Focus
Now That it's Over, Here's Why I'm Not Earth Day's Biggest Fan
Post date:Now that the festivities are mostly over for the year, I'll let you in on a little secret: I don't think much of Earth Day.
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invertebrates
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EPA Sued Over Pollution Damage to Endangered Butterfly
Post date:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act when it approved a permit for a large gas-fired power plant that may drive an Endangered butterfly to extinction. That's according to a San Francisco-based environmental group that fil...
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commentary
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Rat Poison Company Sues California to Block Wildlife Protection Law
Post date:Reckitt Benckiser, which sells a rat poison implicated in the deaths of at least 25 species of wildlife in California,, is suing to prevent a ban on retail sales of its rodenticide. In response, wildlife defenders are calling for a boycott of Reckitt B...
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fracking
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Acid Fracking in the Neighborhood? South L.A. Strikes Back
Post date:Good fences don't always mean good neighbors. The angle from which you look at them is key. Some tree-lined facades might actually be an oil operation.
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Fracking Waste is Being Dumped Into the Ocean Off California's Coast
Post date:If you have an uneasy feeling about where California's offshore rigs dispose of their fracking wastewater, you may well be correct. About half of the state's offshore rigs pump at least some of their wastewater right into the Santa Barbara Channel.