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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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Chloride is the common element in many different types of salts such as sodium chloride (table salt) and calcium chloride (commonly used for road salt). Likens, University of Connecticut. We have made dramatic improvements to acid rain and air quality, and we’re trying to address climate change this way.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On the state level, no fewer than 12 —California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont—all have their own conditions restricting new nuclear construction. However, there is one project that has made some headway. In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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