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NOAA is now using enhanced weather and marine forecast models for the Great Lakes that will extend forecasts from 36 hours to 60 hours into the future to better serve commercial and recreational mariners, the shipping industry, emergency responders, water resource managers and the private weather…
Company to reduce air pollution by more than 550 tons per year from Uinta Basin operations(Denver, Colo. January 3, 2010) Gasco Energy, Inc., the former operator of the Riverbend Compressor Station on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation near Vernal, Utah, has agreed to resolve alleged…
By Denise OwensI took my car into my dealership for my routine oil change; the service writer asked if I would like to have my car winterized. Winterized? What’s that I asked? He then explained the procedures that will be taken to perform this maintenance. I decided to start my new year off right…
WASHINGTON January is National Radon Action Month and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and eight other federal agencies are announcing a new effort to strengthen the fight against radon exposure. Radon exposure is the leading cause of non-smoking lung cancer. Senior leaders from...
A team of state and federal biologists assisted a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Daytona, Fla., on Dec. 30, 2010. The team successfully removed more than 150 feet of ropes wrapped around the whale’s head and fins, and cut portions of entangling ropes that remain on…
(Boston, Mass. Dec. 30, 2010) Poor air quality due to fine particle pollution is predicted for Friday, Dec. 31, in the following areas of New England: all of Connecticut; the Connecticut River Valley, including Springfield, as well as other valley locations in Mass.; populated valley locations…
Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 30, 2010) - EPA has awarded $485,000 to Garner, Iowa, for rehabilitation of its existing sanitary sewer system. The project is expected to be completed by the spring of 2011. EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks said,...
Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 30, 2010) - The operator of a beef feedlot in Sioux County, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $30,000 civil penalty for unpermitted discharges of wastewater from the facility into Otter Creek. Darin Green, doing business as Darin...
PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 30, 2010) - January is national Radon Action Month and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency encourages everyone to test their homes for radon. January is an especially good time to test homes and schools because windows and doors are closed tightly and people spend more t...
PHILADELPHIA ( Dec. 30, 2010) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created several free, publicly-available graphics about radon and a new public service announcement campaign for print, television, and radio at http://www.epa.gov/radon. EPAs newest campaign is Living Healthy &…
By Lina Younes As the year comes to the end, many of us are starting to think about our New Year resolutions for 2011. However, I would like to do something different. I would like to see if I actually implemented some of the green goals that I set for myself in 2010. I’ve been trying to [...]
Por Lina YounesCon la despedida del año, muchos estamos pensando en nuestras resoluciones para el 2011. Sin embargo, quisiera hacer algo diferente. Quisiera ver si realmente implementé algunas de las metas verdes que me fijé en el 2010.He tratado de incorporar prácticas favorables al medio…
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NOAA has unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Jeanethe FalveyI realize that it’s past Thanksgiving, but I’m still thankful, thankful for the New Year holiday and the recent New England weather that’s forcing us to chill out. With the increasing pace of modern life, would we find time otherwise for a self check-in?When planning your New…
As the new year approaches, NOAA ships and independent contractors are preparing for the nation's 177th hydrographic surveying season, aiming to collect critically needed ocean and coastal mapping data for 2,525 square nautical miles in high-traffic coastal waters of the continental United…
PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 29, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today established a landmark pollution diet to restore clean water in Chesapeake Bay and the regions streams, creeks and rivers. This pollution diet is driven primarily by jurisdictions plans to put all needed pollution…
Each week we write about the science behind environmental protection. Previous Science Wednesdays.By Dr. Alan D. HechtOn November 30, 2010 EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that on the occasion of EPA’s 40th anniversary the Agency was asking the National Research Council to conduct a study…
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