Filthy Dirty South: A Football Field of Marsh and Swamp Lost Every Half Hour

Posted on the 17 April 2013 by Earth First! Newswire @efjournal

by Rising Appalachia

Due to the production and extraction of oil [in the U.S. South], a great deal of marshes and swamps are lost at an astonishing rate of a football field every 30 minutes…

Be sure to check out the article Dirty South, Global South from the Earth First! Journal’s Anniversary Issue to learn more about the local and global politics and ecology of the dirty dirty South.