Tag: Pollution
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Coal Pollution in North Omaha, Nebraska: "Kids Deserve Better Than This"
Residents in North Omaha want clean energy, not the coal pollution they're getting now.
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Finalize Tier 3 Tailpipe Standards -- For Our Kids, Our Health, and Our Future
New vehicle emission and fuel standards proposed by the EPa will reduce pollution, save gas, protect public health, and create jobs.
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New York City struggles with plastic bag waste
The New York Times' Elisabeth Rosenthal reports that New York spends "$10 million annually to send 100,000 tons of plastic bags that are tossed in the general trash to landfills in South Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania."
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International Coastal Cleanup removed 10 million pounds of trash from the world's beaches
Last September, more than 550,000 volunteers in 97 countries gathered on beaches and along waterways around the globe with one goal in mind -- to clean things up.
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Shameful! Even Antarctica's King George Island is full of trash
King George Island is relatively ice-free and easy to access, at least compared to most of the rest of Antarctica, so it is an ideal spot for research stations.
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Obama's EPA to require better gasoline, cleaner air
Good news for those of you that enjoy clean air!
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55 percent of U.S. rivers and streams are in poor condition, says EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sampled around 2,000 rivers and streams, and what they found is not good...
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Fire erupts as oil barge hits gas pipeline
John Upton at Grist has a good recap of an accident that occurred last night near New Orleans.
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Pollution now #1 cause of social unrest in China
This has been building up for years, as China rapidly industrialized and urbanized without much regard for the air, water, and land on which the life of its citizens depend.
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Toxic nuclear waste leaking from Washington dump
CBS News has a startling report on a toxic leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, which they call "the most contaminated nuclear site in the country."
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The air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska is worse than in Beijing
But you will have to pry their wood stoves from their cold, dead hands.
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Wildflowers threatened by "safe" levels of nitrogen pollution
The same pollution that causes marine dead zones and shortened human life spans now has also been shown to have a negative impact even in areas assumed to be "clean."
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Test for mercury-contaminated water with a mobile phone
Checking for mercury contamination in water just got a lot easier, thanks to a new simple, inexpensive, and accurate test.
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Boom in Mining Rare Earths Poses Toxic Risks
The mining of metals used in electronics is spreading to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, but scientists warn of the toxic and radioactive wastes generated by the industry.
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Beijing's Smog Crisis Revealed in Documentary
A short documentary aired on Chinese TV hopes to bring needed public attention to the "airpocalypse".
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Dolphin Tangled in Fishing Line Approaches Divers for Help (Video)
Incredibly, the wild dolphin appears to readily comply with efforts to help, seeming to give full trust in its terrestrial rescuers.
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10 Environmental Victories of 2012
From clean air regulations to clean energy installations and requirements for better gas mileage, here's the year in environmental progress, according to the Sierra Club.
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Feeding Dead to Vultures to Resume in India's Parsi Community
What's the greenest way to dispose of a body, after a natural death and hopefully after a long life, of course? Burial? Cremation? Both have a long proud tradition, but there's another tradition being revitalized by the Parsi community of Mumbai.
