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Toxic Waste Managed Increased in 2013
2015-01-16 15:23:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.environmentalleader.com/">Environmental Leader</a> Most of the toxic chemical waste managed at industrial facilities in 2013 in the US was not released into the environment, according to the EPAs annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report. read more
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Toxic Algae on Ohio Lawmakers' Agenda
2015-01-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: After stalling last year, both the Ohio House and Senate appear ready to move on efforts to deal with the Lake Erie toxic-algae problem that last summer choked off Toledos water supply. I call this our no excuses issue, said Sen. Randy Gardner, R-Bowling Green, who is one of three GOP senators focusing on the matter. Weve got agreement on quite a bit of the algae-related issues. Theres no excuse for us to not complete work on this in a timely manner. The House in November passed a...
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EPA: Bulk of Toxic Chemical Waste Recycled
2015-01-15 16:57:00| Waste Age
About 84 percent of toxic chemical waste in 2013 was recycled or otherwise not released into the environment, according to a report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). read more
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Savannah 60th of 893 urban areas for toxic releases
2015-01-14 20:46:43| Chemicals - Topix.net
Every year around this time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releases info from its Toxic Release Inventory, a program that pretty much does what its name says. Companies self report the quantities of each of the toxic substances they've released to the environment.
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Groups Demand EPA Regulate Toxic Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
2015-01-08 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As my colleague Mary Anne Hitt noted in her highlights of 2014 column weve had some significant victories in the fight against the destruction of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia over the past year. But there is still so much to be done to stop this horrible practice from devastating our communities, our health and our wild Appalachian places. Thats why the Sierra Club joined a coalition of groups taking legal action this week to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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