By Elena Craft, PhD Many of our nation’s ports are in highly congested areas that don’t meet federal air quality standards. While opportunities abound for new, creative ways of reducing pollution and protecting public health in these port communities, one promising way includes working toward…
During the months of October and November, staff from the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign will be making stops along the Mississippi River, talking with people about the importance of the Mississippi River Delta to birds migrating along the flyway this fall. In today’s post, National…
(10/24/12) HONOLULU - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the County of Maui has agreed to a settlement to resolve alleged violations of air pollution laws at Central Maui Landfill in Puunene. The settlement requires the County to implement enhanced gas monitoring to help…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has demolished the E.C. Electroplating building at the Garfield Ground Water Contamination Superfund site in Garfield, New Jersey. Areas underneath the building, located at 125 Clark Street, are contaminated with…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has demolished the E.C. Electroplating building at the Garfield Ground Water Contamination Superfund site in Garfield, New Jersey. Areas underneath the building, located at 125 Clark Street, are contaminated with…
Louisiana, Alabama head to head on BP payout By John Maginnis, LaPolitics.com. October 22, 2012. "BATON ROUGE, La. — Here near the peak of both football and election seasons, it seems strange for a Louisiana senator to side with a senator from Alabama in a dispute in which Louisiana Gov.…
Warmer air temperatures high above the Antarctic led to the second smallest seasonal ozone hole in 20 years, according to NOAA and NASA satellite measurements. This year, the average size of the ozone hole was 6.9 million square miles (17.9 million square kilometers). The ozone layer helps shield…
By Kelsey Sollner In my 21 years on the planet, this fall marks my first time living in a big city. Of course, I have visited – made day trips to Manhattan, spent weekends in Philly and been to Dade County. But this is the first time I’ve had a permanent address in a metropolis, [...]
Before there were satellites, weather data transmitters, or computer databases, there were the ship’s logs of Arctic sea voyages, where sailors dutifully recording weather observations. Now, a new crowdsourcing effort could soon make of the weather data from these ship logs, some more than 150…
By Amy Hardberger Texas Wesleyan Journal of Real Property Law Presents: Symposium on Securing Water Supplies for the Future: Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities November 9, 2012 ◊ 8:30am-4:00pm Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX The drought of 2012 was the widest water…
By Pamela Campos Today, attorneys for large power and coal companies will file briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. challenging EPA’s new life-saving Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal- and oil-fired power plants. These vital clean air standards will prevent as many as…
Fellow: Jason Sekhon, 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at Pfizer Inc., MBA/MS candidate at University of Michigan Erb Institute Organization: Pfizer Inc. Opportunity: Over 100,000 employees at the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company Summary: Pfizer is already well on its way to…
For 40 years, NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary System has preserved and protected some of the most spectacular and treasured resources in the world’s oceans.
By Nancy Grundahl Litter! Oh how I hate it! I hate it so much I decided to do something about it. I started picking it up. Every work day I take a bag with me and pick up litter on my walk home from the train station. I am always amazed at how much I [...]
BP must be held accountable By Chris Macaluso for The Houma (La.) Courier. October 22, 2012. "An Oct. 17 article in The Courier and Daily Comet titled “BP settlement could remove local control” detailed purported information circulated last week the U.S. Justice Department was nearing a…
State of the Climate Global Analysis — September 2012 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center September 2012 Selected Climate Anomalies and Events Map Global Highlights The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for September 2012 tied with…
Seventy years after it was scuttled off Los Angeles, Calif., government archaeologists have found the wrecked remains of a rare Pacific Coast schooner that was employed in the lumber trade during the early 1900s.
By Jim Marston We launched a compelling video today that illustrates how clean energy is strengthening our economy, creating American jobs, allowing for energy independence and lessening our carbon footprint. This video shows how clean energy is thriving and seeks to arm policymakers, entrepreneurs…
Make sure BP pays for all the damage it did By Larry Schweiger and David Yarnold for The Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times. October 21, 2012. "With news that an expected trial over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is being delayed until January 2013 and reports of a settlement in the works, BP is…
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