The governor of Michigan apologized Tuesday to residents in the city of Flint who have been dealing with high levels of lead in their water supply for nearly two years. Governor Rick Snyder said state and federal environmental agencies failed to identify and solve the problem after it emerged in April 2014, and that he […]
Just seconds after launch on Tuesday morning, NASA’s Antares rocket exploded in a massive fireball above the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 6:22 am. The failed mission was a scheduled resupply for the space station and carried an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft laden with 5,000 pounds of food, as well as science experiments and other […]
Recently Alaskans watched horrific images from a tailings dam failure in British Columbia that released a flood of millions of gallons toxic water and sludge into an important watershed, just in advance of the salmon return. We witnessed the devastated landscape and heartbroken people facing terrible unknowns about the future of their communities, their food, […]
A botched execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma left an inmate writhing on the gurney for more than 40 minutes before he eventually died from a heart attack.Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections said inmate Clayton Lockett was issued the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination on Tuesday. Thirteen minutes later the convicted […]