The oil and gas industry isn’t the first thing to come to mind when someone says “Michigan.” But on a recent toxic tour, one mom learned what a serious threat leaky, low-producing oil and gas wells are in her state.
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Not So Marginal Wells: Invisible Pollution Threatens Michigan
Life Under Threat: An Explosion at a Local Chemical Facility Spurs One Akron Mom Into Action
Families in East Akron, Ohio, face exposure to toxic, cancer-causing chemicals each day from large manufacturing plants, including the Alterra Akron Plastic Recycling Facility and SMB Products Plant. This mom is taking action.
Life Under Threat: Wisconsin Farming Community Takes Down AI Data Center
When one mom learned that a data center developer was planning a new AI facility in Greenleaf, Wisconsin, she sprang into action, banding the community together to protect their farmland and family homes from the encroachment of polluting Big Tech.
Inside Pennsylvania’s Most-Fracked County: One Family’s Health Story
Lois Bower Bjornson, a Pennsylvania mother and advocate, has seen how fracking can have grave consequences for families and communities.
Life Under Threat: Burning Plastics in Maryland
Families in the Cedar Creek and River Hill neighborhoods of Columbia, Maryland, are fighting a chemical company’s plans to build an “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility adjacent to their homes.
Life Under Threat: Toxic Black Smoke in Hebron, Ohio (VIDEO)
This Mom used footage from her phone camera to sound the alarm about a new “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility in Hebron, Ohio—capturing the attention of the press, a local lawmaker, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Life Under Threat: A Year Fighting Toxic Black Smoke in Ohio
Earlier this year, one mom captured video of a brand new “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility in Union Township, Ohio, emitting toxic black smoke into surrounding neighborhoods. Read how she got the facility temporarily shut down.
Life Under Threat: “Advanced Recycling” in West Virginia
Along the Ohio River in northern West Virginia, the city of Follansbee is at a crossroads. After almost 100 years, a highly polluting plant that heated coal to produce a hotter burning fuel known as coke closed in 2020. Now an “advanced recycling” facility is knocking at the door.
Life Under Threat: Major Win in Ohio “Advanced Recycling” Fight
Residents of Youngstown, Ohio, have banded together to thwart a company’s plans to incinerate tires in their city, a designated environmental justice area one hour east of Akron, and plastics and computer waste in nearby Lowellville.
Life Under Threat: The Toxic Coal Waste Landfill in My Backyard
The Ottumwa-Midland Landfill, a coal waste landfill, has been operating in Ottumwa, Iowa, near Des Moines, since 1981. This grandmother tells the story of watching plumes of ash pump into the sky after the landfill changed longtime site supervisors last summer.