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Hazardous Waste

Dr. Robert D. Bullard: Justice for Our Children

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.17.2012 | Green
Marcia G. Yerman

Our talk covered topics from the genesis of his career as the "Father of Environmental Justice," to the role that women and mothers have played in the struggle for the health of the planet.

Lynne Peeples

Greening Disadvantaged Populations In The Name Of Environmental Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.10.2011 | Green

AUSTIN, Texas -- Thirty years after the Midnite Mine was closed, clean-up of the 33 million tons of radioactive remains at the site -- located within...

Lynne Peeples

Government's New Electronics Stewardship Strategy Not Strong Enough, Experts Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.20.2011 | Green

On Wednesday, the U.S. government launched a new initiative to push for the responsible and sustainable management of electronic products -- from gree...

The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011 | Green
Bill Chameides

Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.

Giving Up the Ghost Ships: Suisun Bay's Mothball Fleet

Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jan McGirk

It's clear that the health risks from a fleet of decrepit U.S. navy troop ships and tankers, moored for nearly half a century in the shallow backwaters of San Francisco Bay, are being taken seriously at last.

Asarco, Mining Giant, Must Pay $1.79 Billion To Clean Up Mess

NPR | John Burnett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

The American Smelting and Refining Company, known as Asarco, will pay a record $1.79 billion to settle claims for hazardous waste pollution at 80 site...

Finally Standards for Coal Ash... Just in Time?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regu...

The Toxic Crime of the Century

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jackie Fuchs

For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.