This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers...
Hugo Bachega Reporting fromSouthern Lebanon Reuters Kfar Kila is one of the border towns in Lebanon that were almost completely destroyed by the Israeli military during last year’s war Last year, on 17 September, at around 15:30, a pager which a nurse called Adam was given at the start of his shift at a hospital...