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Monday, January 30, 2017

Extant or extinct?

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/vets-are-left-to-pay-high-price-for-us-nuclear-tests/

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-01-30/gop-moves-to-undo-obama-coal-rules-protecting-streams?src=usn_gp

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/26/511636325/its-a-big-one-iowa-pipeline-leaks-nearly-140-000-gallons-of-diesel

http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/some-families-being-allowed-into-their-homes-those-nearest-deadly/article_45a82ff2-9531-11e6-b7d2-8fd7420414f7.html

http://www.wlwt.com/article/sunoco-to-pay-dollar923000-to-hamilton-co-park-district-for-2014-oil-spill/8449060

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/almost-two-thirds-of-primate-species-near-extinction-scientists-find.html


If we don't manage to annihilate ourselves, I think we are in for some very interesting times.
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