Sharon Guynup

Last week an underground pipeline ruptured in Santa Barbara, California, spewing about 105,000 gallons of oil.

U.S. pipelines are getting record use and recording a record number of accidents, poisoning land, polluting waterways, and sickening people.

Since the the Senate closed the “Halliburton Loophole,” companies have to fully reveal chemical content used for fracking, since it negatively affects the health of Americans living near these drilling sites.

The new year launched with 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) pouring into West Virginia’s Elk River from a ruptured storage tank last inspected in 1999, leaving 300,000 Americans without water.

Tigers are in trouble. The largest of the world’s cats, a species that’s existed for two million years, is slipping away before our eyes. Few realize that just 3,000 tigers remain in the wild.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, between 1958 and 2011 the amount of rain falling in heavy downpours increased by an astounding 74 percent in the Northeast, turning rivers and creeks into torrents, tearing up undersized culverts, and wrecking streamside roads.