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EPA ends 26 year delay on regulating coal power plant wastewater
This week, the EPA announced "plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water". The move comes in the wake of... Sewage Sludge On Farmland Can Make You Sick
This is an important topic and I'm pleased to see more awareness of it. It's not without pitfalls and much of Europe is banning the spread of sludge or the better sounding "biosolids" on farmland."Farm... 467 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
California Court to Rule on Dex-Cool Settlement
" Millions of consumers could collect repair costs from General Motors for engine damage caused by the coolant Dex-Cool following a hearing in California scheduled for late August. Two class-action lawsuits are pending in California state court involving GM customers who...RI warned of toxic waste from Japan
Way the go. Finally, the govt realized how danger toxic waste for environment. Save our nation" Environmental groups have warned that Japan could "dispose waste" in Indonesia under an Economic Partnership...Bacteria to power laptops - can synthetic biology solve energy crisis?
Cutting edge thinking on harnessing the enzyme activity of bacteria to power appliances such as laptops. Some might begin to worry about the 'design' element when applied to bacteria or other living matter and the...Weekly Radio Spin - Keep Your Sludge to Yourself
This week, we cover greenwashing the Olympics, when a Nobel prize doesn't count for much, and why human waste by any other name is still ... you know. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin'," we tell you how many...
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Coal Dust Turned into Green Gold
"An innovative method of transforming coal waste into a powerful new energy form has been developed by a team of scientists based in Northern Ireland. They have come up with a chemical formula which, when added to coal sludge, produces fuel pellets which can be burned in...U.S., Canada weigh Great Lakes cleanup
When I was a kid growing up in Southern Ontario I was always amazed that we we're allowed to swim in a lake as big as Lake Ontario because of the pollution. What kind of society can poison a body of water...Indonesia to shift 3,000 families away from mud flow on Java
"Indonesia will resettle more than 3,000 families whose houses have been swamped by mud surging from a gas exploration site and will dump the sludge into the sea to avoid more destruction, a minister said Wednesday. The mud appeared after an accident occurred deep in a...Rules Ignored, Toxic Sludge Sinks Chinese Village
Dark as soy sauce, perfumed with a chemical stench, the liquid waste from two paper mills overwhelmed the tiny village of Sugai. Villagers tried to construct a makeshift dike, but the toxic water swept it...Massive Philippines oil spill raises health fears
"Hundreds of people have fallen sick and one man has died in central Philippines following the country's worst ever oil spill, health officials said.The health department has sent medical teams to Guimaras island,...Beirut oil slick devastates the Mediterranean
"The Israeli bombing of a Lebanese power plant has triggered the Mediterranean's worst ever environmental catastrophe, with up to 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil spewing out into the sea and the sludge-covered...
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