Is the Northeast Running Out of Road Salt?

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 18:40 in Earth & Climate

Few people worry about salt's provenance, since the mineral is usually in plentiful supply. But that changed this week, as the northeastern United States got walloped with another heavy winter snowfall, and stocks of road salt hit dangerously low levels.

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