13 February 2017 - Granite Grok

February 13, 2017

Environmental Protester’s Trash Threatens Local Drinking Water

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters left so much garbage behind that if the Army Core of Engineers and locals can’t get it all cleared out before spring it could create an environmental hazard. “Without proper remediation, debris, trash, and untreated waste will wash into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe,” the Corps said in its statement. But it’s not …

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French Socialist Offers Asylum To US Climate Scientists

I’ll Help You Pack. The mediagenic wunderkind of French presidential politics has a message for U.S. scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working on climate change and worrying about their future under President Donald Trump: Come to France. In a video posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts late last night (and hashtagged #ScienceMarch), Emmanuel Macron renewed his commitment to fighting …

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Could Your Solar-Powered Neighbors Increase the Odds of a Power Outage?

National Geographic suggests that your solar powered neighbors could increase the likelihood of power outages when you need power the most. In an age when more homeowners are using solar panels to generate their own electricity, bad weather usually limits the output of these devices and increases the amount of energy the utility must supply, …

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