Iowa Set To Spend Millions on Water Quality
"Iowa is about to launch its biggest assault ever on river and lake pollution -- a $455 million campaign."
Source: Des Moines Register, 05/11/2009
Water & Oceans
"The Unnatural History of the Sea"
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A River Close To Home Flows Through His Work
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EPA Targets Utility Waste
EPA may regulate runoff from the coal ash and sludge from air-pollution-control that power plants store in ponds and piles.
Source: Washington Post, 05/04/2009
EPA Moves To Cut Shipping Emissions at US Ports
Proposed emission standards in a proposed control area around the US coastline would cut sulfur in fuel by 98 percent, particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 percent from the current global requirements.
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Water Utilities Get Huge Increase in Federal Funding
The Obama administration pumps up support for thousands of drinking water systems in the US with about $2B.
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Investigating Water: So What Happens When Water Turns Black?
By RON SEELY
Water, of all the natural resources upon which we rely, is perhaps the one that we take most for granted. We turn on our faucets and out it comes, clear and cool and always there.
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Undersea Reporting: Reporting Live From Inside Aquarius
By JEFF BURNSIDE
When I heard the anchor in my earpiece introducing me reporting live from an undersea research lab, I could hardly believe all the technical aspects were working.
But they were. So I figured I'd better stop being amazed and actually start talking. On Sept. 20, I was the first reporter ever to broadcast live from Aquarius, the world's only undersea lab, nine miles off Key Largo, Fla. next to a coral reef about 60 feet deep. Don't screw it up, I told myself.
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"Most Endangered Rivers" List To Be Released April 7
The conservation group American Rivers publishes an annual list of rivers endangered by dams, pollution, mining projects, and other threats they believe require urgent action.
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"Food Inspectors Leave Some Problems With Bottled Water Unreported"
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency often finds problems with bottled water, but doesn't tell the public about them. Canada's federal food watchdog issued 29 recall notices for bottled water products between 2000 and early 2008, citing deficiencies such as contamination by bacteria, moulds, glass chips and trace amounts of arsenic. Of the recalls, affecting 49 different products, it issued a public warning in only seven cases, two of which came after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made public its recall orders.
03/25/2009
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