As if cleaning up the oil in the water hasn’t been a big enough worry for residents along the Gulf Coast, now they can add the chemicals used to clean the water to their worry list. A recent report, prepared by Toxipedia Consulting Services, along with the non-profit, Earth Justice, presents findings from a literature [...]
You’d think that a town that was devastated by asbestos had suffered enough. But news reports of EPA knowledge of, and unresponsiveness to, reports of asbestos contamination on widely distributed wood chips has put Libby back in the news, and in harm’s way, once again. Asbestos from a W.R. Grace mine in Libby has caused [...]
On Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instated new rules to protect drinking water and monitor carbon dioxide emissions in carbon-capture technology. Specifically, the two new rules govern the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies are employed at power facilities and other major emitters to prevent greenhouse gases from reaching [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed new rules that would greatly reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide that cross state lines. The Clean Air Transport Rule, if adopted, will begin reducing emissions from power plants in 31 states and the District of Columbia by the year 2012.