September 6, 2010 – 8:00 am
By Brian Palmer, Green Lantern
Environmental analysis can be an endless balancing of this vs. that. Do you care more about conserving water or avoiding toxic chemical usage? Minimizing carbon dioxide emissions or radioactive nuclear waste? But today the Lantern has good news: There will be no Sophie’s Choice when it comes [...]
August 16, 2010 – 9:00 am
By Tony LaRussa
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
For many people, getting rid of an old refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner means paying a technician to remove the chemicals from the appliance’s cooling system before it can be hauled off to a scrap yard or landfill.
Now customers of three local utilities can have their old refrigeration units removed for free [...]
Taipei - Taiwan is seeking cooperation from soft drink vendors to cut down on paper and plastic cups to reduce pollution, authorities said Wednesday.
Starting on January 1, 2011, all stores selling takeaway drinks must give discounts to customers who arrive with their own cups, the Environmental Protection Administration said.
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What you generally do with your unused mobile phones? There can be two or three common answers of this question. Some would pass those to siblings, some to friends and some, on the [...]
Corexit is sprayed over the the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 1, 2:44 PMMedia & Culture ExaminerCraig Portwood
The dispersant presently being used to break up errant oil in the Gulf of Mexico, known as COREXIT®, is reported to be less toxic than alternative products, according to preliminary tests carried out by the Environmental [...]
By Caitlin Moran
The Gazette
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Recycling in Laurel is becoming more high-tech, thanks to a city program that uses bins embedded with radio frequency ID chips to track residents’ recycling habits.
About 400 of the technology-enabled carts have been distributed in the city’s Greens at Patuxent neighborhood in a pilot program, and [...]
It’s been almost six months since Glen Ridge made the switch to single-stream recycling and expanded the list of items residents can exclude from their regular trash.
Special to The Hays Daily News
TOPEKA — USDA Rural Development State Director Patty Clark announced that Phillips County Rural Water District No. 1 has been recognized as the Agency’s 2010 Silver Faucet Award winner.
Clark presented the award during the Kansas Rural Water Association’s annual conference in Wichita in recognition of [...]
Posted by Steve Hargreaves, staff writer
Water…it sustains all life.
Yet consider this: Worldwide, 80 countries suffer from water shortages, including highly productive agricultural areas in northern China, the western United States, and northwest India.
Four thousand children under the age of five die each day from water-born diseases. Almost 40% of all the [...]
Brooke Meier
April 14, 2010 - Businesses that discharge wastewater into any waters of the state or to any sewer system would no longer have to file an annual report on such discharges, under a bill recently introduced in the state Senate.
Michigan’s current Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, Public Act (PA) 451 of 1994, states [...]
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