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An infant breathes from an inhaler
after suffering respiratory problems following a tar sands pipeline
accident in Mayflower, Arkansas. By Genieve Long
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The question of whether tar sands are hazardous to our health is
growing stickier.
A final decision from the Obama administration on construction of
the much-debated Keystone
XL pipeline remains on hold, stalled by legal
challenges to its planned route through the state of Nebraska.
But other questions have been raised in Congress about the
possible health effects that may result from pumping 35 million
gallons a day of diluted bitumen—tar sands oil—through a pipeline
every day from Alberta, Canada, through the heart of America to
refineries on the Gulf Coast. And there are questions that are barely
being asked or answered. Here, we take a look at some of them. MORE
By Sharon Guynup< on Jun 1, 2014
By Sharon Guynup< on Jun 1, 2014
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