The Week in Pictures: Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Hungarian Villages, White House Will Install Solar Panels, and More (Slideshow)

A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary where four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. In other environmental news this week, the White House has announced that solar panels will be installed on the White House living quarters by spring 2011; A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has recently set a new Guinness World Record for the “longest distance traveled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel”; and in Pap… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Hungarian Villages, White House Will Install Solar Panels, and More (Slideshow)

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