Tag: Pollution - Page 12
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Obama Administration Announces Stronger Stance on E-Waste, Not Good Enough for Watchdog Groups
Yesterday the Obama administration announced a federal strategy for boosting recycling rates of electronics in the US, helping to get control over the flow of e-waste and boost jobs. It's a long-overdue move, however,
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The Aftermath of the Yellowstone River Oil Spill
The Guardian has a must-read piece on the Yellowstone River oil spill and the impact it has had on locals during the two weeks since the rupture. Reporter Kate Sheppard spoke with residents, and crafts a poignant warning about what damage oil pipeline
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Part of New York State's Fracking Regulations Already Trails Industry Practice
With good-sized areas of the New York State now open for fracking, some questions are being raised about the supposedly tough measures being put in place to ensure drinking water isn't contaminated. Reuters highlights how one piece of the clean water
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Ruptured Pipeline in Yellowstone River Oil Spill Regularly Carried Tar Sands Oil
The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain--especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the
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A Year Later, 530 Miles Of Gulf Coast Still Contaminated With Oil
Nearly a year after the Gulf oil spill and persistent PR on the part of BP to the contrary some 530 miles of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida remain contaminated by oil, a spokesperson for NOAA has told Bloomberg. At the height of the spill
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Nike, Adidas, Puma, H&M; and Others Found Discharging Toxic Chemicals Into Chinese Rivers
After a year-long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone-disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Gets Paid, Big Coal Gets to Pollute
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hear two bills this week, the TRAIN Act, which just promotes the false notion that environmental regulation is costly and bad for jobs, and a second bill that would limit federal
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Fracking Could Damage New York & Pennsylvania Tourism, Too
Another study showing how fracking is hardly an unqualified good as it's proponents would have you believe: A new study shows that while in the short term hydraulic fracturing wells will likely have little impact on tourism, over time the increased
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Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Could Have 91 Serious Spills in 50 Years
We've already heard some figures on how bad the ongoing Yellowstone River oil spill would likely be if it was of the capacity of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (roughly 20 times worse). Now environmental engineer John Stansbury has set out
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How Much Plastic Do Fish Ingest?
Our world is becoming more and more plastic each year. From toys to packaging to gadgets and bags, it's not just that we produce more than 250 million tons each year around the world, but it's the fact that little of what we
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Exxon's Lack Of Public Transparency Prompts Montana Leaving Oil Spill Clean Up Command
Citing a disturbing (and unfortunately expected) lack of public transparency on the part of ExxonMobil in the aftermath of the Yellowstone River oil spill, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has withdrawn state participation from the command team
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Dept of Interior Appropriations Bill Is 'Declaration of War' On America's Basic Environmental Protections
The new appropriations bill for funding the Department of Interior from the House of Representatives is out in draft form. Among the more egregious parts of it include: Prohibiting any new plants or animals being
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Yellowstone River Oil Spill Spreads 240 Miles - If This Was Keystone XL It'd Be 20 Times Worse
The Yellowstone River oil spill continues to spread (both physically and metaphorically) with more and more landowners reporting their property has been contaminated with oil from the ruptured ExxonMobil Silvertip pipeline and questions raised about
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Fracking Wastewater Poisonous To Plants & Trees: US Forest Service
As if there aren't enough problems with fracking already: a U.S. Forest Service researcher has found that wastewater from fracking in a West Virginia forest wiped out ground plants, killed more than half the trees in
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Exceptional Snowmelt Flooding Yellowstone River, Hampers Oil Spill Cleanup & May Have Caused It
Some media roundup updates on the ongoing Yellowstone River oil spill: 1) Higher than normal winter snow runoff means cleanup (and assessing the full scale of damage) will be slower than usual; 2)
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324 Square Mile Chinese Oil Spill Covered Up For One Month By Oil Companies & State Authority
Visible signs of it are now gone, but reports are surfacing that back on June 4 an oil rig operated by state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the Chinese subsidiary of Texas-based ConocoPhillips began leaking, ultimately spilling oil
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Yellowstone River Oil Spill Now Extends 150 Miles Downstream
You may have missed this: Over the long holiday weekend in the US an ExxonMobil oil pipeline in Montana ruptured, spilling as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, 10
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New York Governor To Partially Lift State Moratorium on Fracking
Win some, (partially, maybe) lose some: As New Jersey bans fracking, the political signs are pointing to New York governor Andrew Cuomo lifting the existing de facto state ban on fracking. According to the New
