Pollution

Stopping Septic Seepage

There’s an underground threat to water that’s making it harder to clean up for drinking. The Environment Report's Julie Grant reports – it all depends on where you live and whether the people who live nearby are maintaining their septic systems.

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Source: Stopping Septic Seepage, 05/15/2009

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Chevron Faces Ire in Equador

Chevron is preparing for an unfavorable ruling in what looks like the world's largest environmental lawsuit. Dwellers in the former oilfields of Equador bitterly resent the pollution -- and the deaths they believe resulted.

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Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009

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Decision on Largest Lead-Tainted Neighborhood

The nation's largest residential lead pollution site reached a key milestone today with the signing of an EPA decision on how to clean up thousands of residential yards in eastern Omaha contaminated over decades by emissions from the former ASARCO lead refinery.

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Source: ENS, 05/15/2009

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No Easy Solutions for Great Salt Lake Mercury

A USGS expert says the solution to problems with mercury plaguing Great Salt Lake will require more than just eliminating local sources. Also key are how it turns into harmful methylmercury and spreads through the food web.

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Source: AP, 05/13/2009

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Tennessee Spill: The Dredge Report

EPA's takover of the cleanup of TVA's coal-ash spill in Tennessee came after revelations that TVA's effort to do the job by dredging threatened to become a "major toxic event."

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Source: Nation, 05/13/2009

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SRF Allotments based on Final Economic Recovery Appropriations (3/12/09)

May 13/09 TipSheet redirect from SEJ.org

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"A Mountain of Trouble"

An "eco-friendly" developer in Sweet Home, Oregon, has brought "a nightmare of garbage-dumping fines from state environmental regulators, an asbestos investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an investigation by Oregon charities regulators, and numerous civil lawsuits from angry creditors."

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Source: Eugene Register-Guard, 05/11/2009

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Black Carbon: A Key Cause Of Warming Not Well Recognized

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Web Publication Uses Data to Tell Complex Air-Toxics Story

A visit to a boot camp before the last Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Vermont opened the door for a special report on air pollution in San Diego by a webonly publication, voiceofsandiego.org

Reporter Rob Davis, who covers environmental issues for the Internet-based nonprofit news outlet, gives lots of credit to the special training and insights of the boot camp followed up by the annual conference. And, he also got help from fellow SEJ members.

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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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