The federal Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it intended to ban all dumping of sewage by large cargo and cruise ships in California waters out to the three-mile limit. The state has been requesting the ban for five years. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/keeping-ship-sewage-from-the-california-coast/?src=mv
The definitive story from environmental journalism icon and Pulitzer Award-winner Mark Schliefstein:
“A massive, 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil droplets flowed to the southwest of the BP’s failed Macondo well at the end of June, and the threat it poses to natural resources of the Gulf of Mexico remains uncertain, scientists who mapped the plume said [...]
Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields today plans to unveil legislation to ban natural gas drilling in the city, saying he’s wants to test a municipality’s right to self-government, even if that means inviting a legal challenge from the drilling industry.
“Why can’t we say no? Why is it that local authorities, the local government, can’t make [...]
Britain and other countries face a collapse of their economies and loss of culture if they do not protect the environment better, the world’s leading champion of nature has warned.
“What we are seeing today is a total disaster,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. “No country has met its [...]
Researchers at the University of Georgia said Monday that more than three-quarters of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon drilling-rig explosion could still be in the Gulf threatening fisheries and marine life, disputing government statements that much of the oil had been safely dispersed.
The federal National Incident Command, which [...]
Charles Harvey traces the source of widespread arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, setting the stage for programs that could benefit 20 million people.
Millions of people in developing countries drink groundwater contaminated with much higher levels of arsenic than the old U.S. standard, every day…Cruelly, Bangladeshis were getting sick because they followed the advice of [...]
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still poses threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a study published Monday by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association.
Federal officials disputed the new report and said ongoing testing is aggressive and sufficient to protect public health.
In the short term, study co-author Gina Solomon voiced [...]
Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry’s standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.
The construction wave stretches from Arizona to Illinois and South Carolina to Washington, and comes despite growing public wariness over the high environmental and [...]
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Ron Cunningham celebrates the Blue Path:
“And here’s the bottom line message of Blue Path:
“Florida’s springs are degrading at an alarming rate as a direct result of our collective over-pumping of the ground water and adding too many nutrients to the groundwater,” says Annie Pais, director of Florida’s Eden, the organization that assembled the exhibit. “Simply [...]
“These folks want to have a much more extensive cleanup than EPA has first put on the table, and I’m going to certainly try to help them with that,” the Democrat told the crowd.
The EPA’s plan calls for…polluted soil from around the rest of the site and the surrounding neighborhoods would be placed [...]
All of these tips are wonderful, but this one’s my favorite because it is the key to having an impact on the entire planet and our future:
“3. Use Fewer Plastic Products
Plastics that end up as ocean debris contribute to habitat destruction and entangle and kill tens of thousands of marine animals each year. To limit [...]
Almost four decades ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to force polluters to disclose the toxins they dump into waterways and to give regulators the power to fine or jail offenders. States have passed pollution statutes of their own. But in recent years, violations of the Clean Water Act have risen steadily across the [...]
August 12 through December 12, 2010
The Blue Path provides visitors a view of Florida’s water through the window of North Florida’s freshwater springs. This region is home to more springs–over 700 discovered so far–than any other place on Earth. The Exhibit examines how rapid degradation of Florida springs signals much bigger [...]
The New York State Senate has approved at least a nine-month delay in issuing permits for a method of natural gas drilling, saying more study is needed to ensure it does not contaminate the state’s water supply.
The technique has helped fuel a drilling boom in the United States and allowed companies to tap vast [...]
Researchers at Yale University have developed a custom membrane that can clean and purify water from oceans, salty ground water or sewage water with far less energy input than currently is required to do a similar job.
The membrane may be a big step forward in reaching the goal of reliable and affordable sources of fresh [...]
Pennsylvania may soon become the capital of energy that is really green — as in algae.
It turns out that algae — that slimy stuff that makes your skin crawl when you swim through it — is pretty powerful stuff.
via Berks lawmaker courts algae farms for Pennsylvania – The Mercury News: Pottstown, PA and The Tri [...]
The United Nations has added Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar to its list of World Heritage sites in danger.
Being on the danger list allows the agency to allocate immediate assistance from the World Heritage Fund.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/30/2118315/everglades-madagascar-rain-forest.html#ixzz0vMQCgEfD
via Everglades, Madagascar rain forest on UNESCO list – KansasCity.com.
Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering some Gulf Coast scientists lucrative consulting contracts that bar them from releasing their findings on the company’s massive oil spill for three years.
Some scientists say the contracts constrain academic freedom. A few signed the agreements, then changed their minds.
via Gulf [...]
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