(01/02/13- ATLANTA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announce that Kentucky Utilities Company will spend $57 million to install a sulfuric acid mist emission control system, replace a coal-fired boiler, and pay a civil penalty of $300,000 to resolve alleged…
The ocean is enormous, supporting a vast array of life while providing food, fuel, recreation, and spiritual rejuvenation. But efforts to conserve the ocean, though valiant, are meager compared to the scale of the threats to the ocean. Ocean conservation advocates have achieved many notable…
Can the Corps of Engineers be forced to deliver more sediment to Louisiana by an unused provision in an existing federal law? By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. December 20, 2012. "Louisiana may have found the muscle it's been looking for to force the Army Corps of Engineers to make…
By Dave Deegan We’re not exactly sure when it was, but we made a big mistake in the realm of “Murphy’s Law of Unintended Consequences.” You see, we bought some stuff from a Web and catalog retailer. The problem wasn’t with the outdoor furniture – or was it something for the garden? Or…
Oil sheen is visible on the waters of Arthur Kill on the border of New Jersey and New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. (NOAA) Responders face an oily debris field in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., after Hurricane Sandy. Nov. 2, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard) Hurricane Sandy’s extreme weather…
Shipping lanes to be adjusted to protect endangered whales along california coast.
Part of the Human Induced Climate Change Experiment Also see: Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover is Retreating The globally-averaged temperature for November 2012 marked the fifth warmest November since record keeping began in 1880. November 2012 also marks the 36th consecutive November and 333rd…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $50,000 to two Puerto Rico organizations, Leaders of the World and the Scuba Dogs Society, to educate low-income communities about effective waste management, recycling and the negative effects of improper waste disposal on…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $25,000 to the Onondaga Environmental Institute to train and certify central New York area residents to perform environmental jobs. Under the grant, the institute will also hold four community meetings to educate people…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $25,000 to the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York to work with people in Buffalo, New York to reduce air pollution and to support local air sampling. People living on Buffalo’s west side, which is the focus of the…
We generally emphasize the following four points: a) Select a coordinate system (also called a "position format") you feel comforatble using. We suggest using Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) or latitude/longitude. Most users find UTM coordinates easier to locate on USGS…
Not specifically. Our charge is to understand characteristics of the earth, especially the earth's surface, that affect our Nation's land, water, and biological resources. That includes quite a bit of environmental monitoring. Other agencies, especially NOAA and NASA, are specifically funded…
By Amy Miller My affinity for winter’s darkness is inseparable from my love of light, including the cacophony of colored, white, LED, incandescent and just plain discordant bulbs that turn on the landscapes of New England each December. As I drive through my bejeweled town, though, niggling…
Prior to the recent widespread use of directional drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other enabling technologies, petroleum geologists and engineers were aware that oil and gas resources were present in “tight” or impermeable formations such as shale. However, the technology to extract the…
On the announcement that Lisa Jackson will leave the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson announces she is leaving EPA; Fred Krupp says she has helped move America toward cleaner air and a smaller carbon footprint …
By Mark Brownstein Source: The Daily Digger Promised Land is not a movie about “ fracking .” You will be sorely disappointed if you go to the theatre expecting to see lurid visuals of sinister-looking waste water ponds, plumes of diesel soot and road dust, or bucolic landscapes scarred by roads…
Mark Brownstein, chief counsel of EDF’s Energy Program and EDF’s lead on natural gas, will comment on public health and environmental risks raised by the movie “Promised Land” Environmental Defense Fund Offers Insight on the Impacts of…
WASHINGTON -- I want to thank President Obama for the honor he bestowed on me and the confidence he placed in me four years ago this month when he announced my nomination as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
By Lina Younes As 2012 comes to an end and 2013 is about to begin, I would like to share some thoughts with you for the new year. I don’t want to call them New Year Resolutions because those don’t seem to survive longer than the month of January. So, how about talking about healthier [...]
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Density of Invasive Reed, Phragmites Australis , Mapped in Great Lakes (Dec 17, 2012) Phragmites australis , an invasive species of plant called common reed, grows rapidly into dense stands of tall plants that pose an extreme…