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- The Impending Deluge
- Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water Fail to Reach Faucets Nationwide
- US Unconventional Oil Ignites Chain Reaction That Redefines Global Markets
- Maine Legislature Easily Passes GMO Food Labeling Bill, a Blow to Monsanto
- Amid Data Controversy, NSA Builds Its Biggest Data Farm
- The Amish Are Getting Fracked
- US Energy in Five Maps
- Could Biofuel Forests Repair Mountaintop Removal Sites?
- After Drought, Rains Plaguing Midwest Farms
- US Tailors Regional Climate Plans to Help Farmers Beat the Heat
- Floods Bring Misery to Central Europe Areas
- Ecology Lessons From the Cold War
- Evaporating Water Supply Poses Costly Risk for Miners
- New Mexico County First in Nation to Ban Fracking to Safeguard Water
- EPA Inspector General to Investigate Efforts to Reduce Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks
Quick Facts
- A single margherita pizza requires 333 gallons of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!
- Radioactive Bluefin Tuna, caught off California's coast had cesium-134 and cesium-137 in their systems.
- $ of a gal. of gas includes: cost of Crude Oil 76%; Refining Costs and Profits 6%; Distribution, Marketing, and Retail Costs and Profits 6%; Taxes 12%
- On average, each American directly uses more water outdoors (101 gallons per day) than indoors (69 gallons per day).
- More than 1,300 gallons are required to produce a 12oz steak.
- By 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered annually. Today, that number has risen to 55 billion!
- Health care costs associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria rise by an estimated $4 billion dollars each year.
- The transportation sector made up 28 percent of US energy conumption in 2011
- About 50 million Americans get sick from unsafe food each year, resulting in over 100,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
- Analysts predict that by 2017, the cost for electricity produced from new onshore wind farms will be lower than new advanced or conventional coal plan
- The United States led the world with $48.1 billion in clean energy investments in 2011.
- Poultry farms often sear off as much as half of a chicken's beak to prevent aggression brought on by cramped living conditions.
- 20 percent of the Earth's surface water is in lakes.
- Corn accounts for 8 percent of global water use for crop production.
- In February 2012, financial speculation added an extra $.56 per gallon of gasoline at the pump.
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