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Western NY toxic sites could endanger Great Lakes
2013-04-21 23:57:00| Chemicals - Topix.net
Thirty-five years after underground toxics turned the Niagara Falls neighborhood of Love Canal into a ghost town, researchers are warning that Western New York is still home to nearly 800 hazardous waste sites that could someday lead to big trouble, not only for local residents, but for the entire Great Lakes region.
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EPA Proposes to Reduce Toxic Pollutants Discharged into Waterways by Power Plants
2013-04-19 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In accordance with consent decree and in line with requirements under Clean Water Act, U.S. EPA will propose options to help reduce dangerous pollutants, including mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium, released into America's waterways by coal ash, air pollution control waste, and other waste from steam electric power plants. Proposal includes options for whether and how said waste streams should be treated, and EPA will take comments on all of these options to help inform most appropriate final ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Europe's toxic air: clearer but not clean
2013-04-10 13:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europeans no longer see the kind of pollution that within living memory killed thousands of Londoners in the Great Smog of 1952, but the air they breathe still bears invisible threats scarcely less deadly, and little more controlled. While attention is given to curbing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions blamed for global warming, substances more directly harmful to human health, notably nitrogen oxides, are pumped out of diesel engines and from European power stations burning coal that is getting...
Damaged Nuclear Plant in Japan Leaks Toxic Water
2013-04-06 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from a large underground storage pool at Japans crippled nuclear plant, and thousands more gallons could seep out before the faulty pool can be emptied, the plants operator said Saturday. About 120 tons, or almost 32,000 gallons, of highly contaminated water appeared to have breached the inner protective lining of the pool at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, said the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company. It was unclear how much of the water...
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Manatee death toll rises in Florida even as toxic algae ebbs
2013-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A deadly algae bloom that killed a record number of manatees has dissipated, though the death toll for the endangered sea mammals continues to rise, Florida wildlife officials said on Thursday. Red Tide has killed 241 manatees this year as of Wednesday, said Kevin Baxter, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. The figure already surpasses the highest number of Red Tide manatee deaths on record in Florida - 151 in 1996. This year's fatalities...
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