BP Agrees to a $400+ Million settlement!
5/26/2012 (Blog Date)
According to the Natural Resource Defense Council; the EPA estimates that controls will eliminate more than 4,000 tons of regulated pollutants annually including dangerous volatiles, organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides as a result of this settlement.
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2012/120523.asp
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Tsunami debris cleanup plan lacking!
5/20/2012 (Blog Date)
How is NOA planning to detect and dispose of a massive tsunami debris traveling from Japan to the North American West Coast?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018233190_tsunami18m.html
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Marcellus Shale Wastewater Treatment Facility!
5/20/2012 (Blog Date)
Is this technology constructed by Eureka Resources, LLC sound & effective technology and therefore applicable elsewhere?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eureka-resources-construct-marcellus-shale-153900305.html
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Hazardous pollutants!
5/11/2012 (Blog Date)
U.S Department of Justice Thursday, May 3, 2012-“Hazardous pollutants released into the Ashtabula watershed over more than half a century”
One might ask-What has been going on the past 50 years?
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/May/12-enrd-574.html
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“Toilet to Tap” concept in the San Diego area?
5/06/2012 (Blog Date)
SAN DIEGO — Almost hidden in the northern hills, the pilot water treatment plant here does not seem a harbinger of revolution. It cost $13 million, uses long-established technologies and produces a million gallons a day.
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Why is the United States government, immune to fines under the Clean Water Act?
4/29/2012 (Blog Date)
A second sewage release of 2 million gallons in less than a month has fouled the Tijuana River, one of the most polluted waterways in the country.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/25/two-million-gallons-sewage-hit-south-bay/
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Urban Water Basins and Farmers’ Pockets are filled by Empty Fields
4/21/2012 (Blog Date)
BRAWLEY, Calif. — Mr. Kalin and his brother enjoy a choice that their parents and grandparents never had. They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/science/earth/24water.html?_r=1&ref=preciouswaters
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Nebraska Legislature OKs Keystone pipeline support bill!
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
(Reuters) – The Nebraska Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that would provide support for an expected new route for TransCanada Corp’s Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL crude oil pipeline that would bypass an environmentally sensitive region in the state.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/us-usa-keystone-nebraska-idUSBRE83A1FD20120411
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Hexavalent chromium limits in drinking water?
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delayed adopting a drinking-water standard for hexavalent chromium until it completes additional study.
For this pollutant, surfactant 6, analysis of tap water samples contained elevated levels in Kentucky.
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$159,624 Civil Penalty payment required by EPA!
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
Under the terms of the Consent Agreement with EPA, EXCO is required to pay a civil penalty of $159,624 and comply with the conditions of its underground injection control permit. The company must also rework the well in accordance with an EPA-approved plan to comply with federal mechanical integrity standards for brine disposal wells, which require multiple levels of protection to prevent contamination of underground sources of drinking water.
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