Flint Official Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter For Role In Water Crisis

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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed involuntary manslaughter charges against one of the state officials responsible for the Flint water scandal in 2015, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Shuette, a Republican, charged Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon is accused of neglecting to inform the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint […]

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June 14, 2017 at 11:28AM

Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction

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At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failures—which, he claimed, unfold in the same way. “These are images from the NOAA website of the US blackout in 2003,” he […]

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June 14, 2017 at 11:18AM

Swarms Of Locusts Are Coming And Satellites Can Predict Them 3 Months In Advance

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Satellites can predict when massive swarms of desert locusts will form in Africa, according to a Tuesday statement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO officials are now able to predict these swarms up to three months in advance using data from European Space Agency (ESA) satellites. Desert locusts swarms pose an immense threat to […]

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June 14, 2017 at 11:02AM

Paris ‘Climate’ Accord was Obama power grab that America rejected

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A Republic, if you can keep it When Ben Franklin was asked what system of government the Constitutional Convention had produced, he said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” He knew how strong leaders can abuse power, and he knew how easily people can forget that lesson. This week’s agitation over America’s withdrawal from […]

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June 14, 2017 at 09:55AM