Court Rejects Challenge to Alaska Water Permit Authority
"A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a U.S. EPA decision allowing Alaska to administer part of the Clean Water Act."
Source: Greenwire, 11/12/2010
Water & Oceans
"Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water"
The Great Lakes, America's largest supply of fresh water, and surrounding forests, wetlands, and waterways are threatened by new mining of copper and nickel.
Source: DC Bureau, 11/11/2010
Pavement Sealcoat Contaminates Lakes and Streams
A soon-to-be-published study has found elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, probable human carcinogens toxic to fish and other aquatic life, in waterways are originating from coal tar-based pavement sealcoats.
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"Shell Presses for Drilling in Arctic"
"Eager to win approval for its stalled plan to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, Royal Dutch Shell is beginning a public lobbying campaign, including national advertising, on Monday."
Source: NYTimes, 11/09/2010
"EPA Tries To Get Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Back on Track"
"The Chesapeake Bay does not like your lawn. That green grass is probably coated with pesticides and fertilizers and studded with pet poop. All that washes off in the rain and causes environmental problems downstream in the Chesapeake."
Source: Wash Post, 11/08/2010
Got TMDLs? Sneak Peek of New Pollutant Loading Tool Could Raise Ruckus
EPA in-house tool may be released to public within months. It will give reporters themselves the ability to estimate the cumulative impacts of pollution on water bodies.
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Many Wisconsin Families at Risk from Tainted, Untested Wells
"More than a third of Wisconsinites rely on well water in their homes, and we've discovered much of that water could be tainted. The problem: many families don't have their wells tested. And those wells could contain invisible poisons."
Source: TMJ 3 Milwaukee, 10/28/2010
Peak Water: A New Way To Look at Long-Term Water Issues
Viewing local, regional, national, and global water issues through the lens of "peak water," a concept explained in a Pacific Institute paper, can yield some interesting angles on water-related stories and long-term water issues.
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Study: Fish Are Getting Whipsawed by People, Climate Change
Arizona State University researchers find a major shift in top fish predators in 36 North American waterways, resulting in reduced availability of fish caught for food or sport, and long-term changes in riparian ecology that affect both people and the rest of the environment, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
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25,000 Abandoned Mines Are Just the Beginning
The BLM is documenting where the mines are, and ramping up efforts to mitigate threats from them, such as water contamination, traps for people and animals, and deteriorating old explosives lurking in some dark corners.
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