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Thom Hartmann here on the best to the restive science and green news
you need to know this there's an important lesson to be learned from the
ongoing
all ash disaster in North Carolina business and politics mix the public
pays the price
so it's up to the government but a firewall between the profit makers
and the regulators and their firewall is breached
the results can be devastating is look at the disaster in North Carolina
before Pat McCrory took over the governor's mansion last year he worked
for 20
eight years as an executive for Duke Energy the company responsible for last
month's massive coal
ash spill after taking office the newly elected Republican governors said that
North Carolina's environmental regulatory agencies needed to focus more
on
so-called customer service other words regulator should make it easier for
companies like Duke Energy
to get around safety regulations and just ignore it when these companies
break the rules
McCrory's watch North Carolina slash the budget for water pollution programs
and shrink the size that states watchdog agencies
and we all know what happened next in February Duke Energy spilled almost
40,000
hun its up toxic waste into the Dan River in the third worst coal ash
spill in history cleanup is going to take years if not decades
it's gonna cost taxpayers a fortune thankfully last week a federal grand
jury began hearing evidence on whether that firewall between state regulators
and Duke Energy had been breached
and whether Governor Macquarie played a hand in weakening regulations
so far McCrory has been able to use his power to shut down state regulators
you can stop this federal investigation stay tuned
if you're trying to diet are quit smoking
may have better luck if you play a video game according to a new study by
Plymouth University in the UK
playing a game of Tetris can help reduce cravings for food or nicotine
researchers conducted a study with 119 college students
by instructing them to play that game for three minutes whenever the students
began having a craving
however half of the students were given games that only displayed
and error message researchers found that over time the nicotine or food cravings
got weaker for everyone but cravings when way faster for people who are able
to play Tetris
sign to suggest that any similar activity may have the same a fact
however they believe the game worked because a force the subject to focus on
shapes
rather than on the food or other substance
the students were craving a scientist like a ban
Dylan agree to the study and said quote I think it's important people are
motivated to play the game for it to be an effective tool if I chretien's and as
a possible side effect
they may become a very skillful player and pretty rad cast at our government
officials are preparing to reenter the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad
New Mexico
the past month special teams from the department at energy and nuclear waste
partnership
have been training enter that facility in a way to minimize risk to employees
and avoid causing any further damage contamination
or damage to the plant teams will investigate the cause of the leak
and assess the damage to containers a radioactive waste
although officials have continued to claim that there's a that poses no
threat to human health
various sources including experts and individuals who contribute a red cast
reported radiation levels near it that plank plant
as recently as last week from what they report
situation Carlsbad is far worse than officials play
you won't hear that the corporate media sure check out red cast out or
radiation readings in all the real leader news
another week goes by and we learn to get into the toxic fuel spill
just last stress since last week there've actually been at least two
new oil-related disasters once bill was discovered last Monday in a nature
preserve near Cincinnati Ohio
and the other occurred over the weekend when oil barge collided with another
ship in a Texas waterway
spill in Oakland nature preserve was reported after a man walking in the park
discovered a 10
I wasn't gallon bleak investigators had no idea how or when that leak started
Saturday spill in Texas with much larger much as a hundred
it sixty-eight thousand gallons love
%uh lacked hardship in oil coated with the water near the Texas
City night as 10 p.m. on Saturday
be Coast Guard was still investigating the cause of the collision
an official said that the spill had not yet been and Amy
what is our nation gonna get it from coal ash spills to pipeline leaks to
numerous training barge accidents
the fact is that no typeof transport is safer fossil fuels
and that's not even considering the dangers a burning in these fossil fuels
for the sake of our planet and our species in stop this addiction
dangerous fossil fuels and finally earlier this month lawmakers in France
doubled down on their stance against GM votes the reason that nation have been
attempting to establish in
all out ban on GMR corn but a senior court has twice
struck down their efforts so French officials have renewed a ban on
planting any genetically modified corn until they can debate a permanent law
in April signed his nation have compiled
evidence that the dangers a GM ok warn both to health
and to the environment as experts along with other environmentalists
welcomed the renewed been although they continue to call for a permanent law
against any and all genetically modified products
in our nation we can't even seem to pass legislation
label GM owes or damn a countries around the world are recognizing the risks
up mast meddling with mother nature activists and experts all around our
world to the dangers
GM's we must fight the right to know what's in our food
and that's the way it is for the week of March 24
2014 I'm Thom Hartmann on science and greens
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