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- Superfund Cleanups Descend Into Uncertainty Fri, 6 Oct 23, 4:00pmNow confusion will reign, cleanups will be delayed, and responsible corporations will balk at undertaking costly cleanups.
- USA Surf Team and Wyland Foundation launch national waterway cleanup Sat, 24 Apr 21, 2:30amAs we all know, Earth Day’s 24 hours aren’t quite enough time to offset the damage done during the other 364 days. So the USA Olympic Surf Team and Wyland Foundation are partnering on a year-round eco-challenge, starting...
- 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found clogging New Orleans catch basins Thu, 1 Feb 18, 11:16pmIn New Orleans, clean-up crews have found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in the catch basins on St. Charles Avenue between Poydras Street and Lee Circle. These festive plastic staples were clogging 15,000, or fully one-quarter,...
- Radioactive Strontium-90 Found in Fukushima Groundwater Thu, 20 Jun 13, 7:00amIt has been over two years since the catastrophic meltdown at the Fukusima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the bad news keeps on rolling in. On the heels of an announcement by Tepco that the water at the facility is contaminated...
- New Material Cleans Polluted Water by Acting Like a Toxin Magnet Fri, 9 Sep 11, 2:38amResearchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a material that they call SLUG-26 which acts like a pollutant magnet when tossed into contaminated waterways...
- Scant Evidence That Dispersants Help in Oil Spill Cleanup Fri, 18 Jun 10, 3:56amA new report shows that there's little evidence to suggest that massive amounts of chemical dispersants help in oil spill cleanup.
- Kevin Costner Cleaning up the Gulf with His Oil Separating Technology Fri, 21 May 10, 12:20amNo, we are not kidding. Neither is Kevin Costner. When the Exxon Valdez catastrophe happened in 1989, the actor, fisherman and environmentalist was horrified. So he went searching for an answer to cleaning up oil spills and...
- President Obama Allocates $800 Million to Repurpose Old GM Factories Thu, 20 May 10, 12:36amWe’ve had so many factories shut down in the US over the past few decades that we just didn’t know what to do with them. Well, now someone does. President Obama was in Youngstown, Ohio yesterday at the V&M Star —...