Pollutants

Water Ills Focus of New Documentary

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Australia, Participant Media, Jay Famiglietti, Endocrine Disrupters, Agriculture, Texas, Recyced Water, Pollution, Peter Gleick, Film, California, Tyrone Hayes, Jessica Yu, Aaron Wolf, Water, Erin Brockovich, Pollutants, Food, Hexavalent Chromium, Wastewater, Bottled Water, Video, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Green News
Bill Chameides

2012-05-03-Screenshot20120503at9.29.37AM.jpgLast Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."

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Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Climate Scientist, Climate Skeptics, Paul Crutzen, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Science, Peter Gleick, Wall Street Journal, Climate Change, Climate Science, Kevin Trenberth, Pollutants, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Ozone, Global Temperatures, Green News
Bill Chameides

I guarantee that most scientists, myself included, would love to make their reputation by refuting the whole notion of global warming. We have tried and have concluded that we can't.

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Removing Mercury and Other Toxics From the Air We Breathe

Lisa P. Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Air, Epa, Pollutants, Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Pollution, Clean Air Act, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Green News
Lisa P. Jackson

The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards set the first-ever national safeguards to limit power plant releases of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, making this is one of the largest steps to protect our kids from air pollution in a generation.

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New Orleans Tap Water Beats Odds, Meets All Regulatory Standards

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petrochemicals, Baton Rouge, U.S. Coast Guard, Lower Ninth Ward, La. Dept. Of Environmental Quality, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pollutants, Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, La. Dept. Of Health & Hospitals, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Business News
Susan Buchanan

Residents worry about spills in the river, and wonder if oil lapping at the coast has affected their faucet water. Local, state and federal authorities, however, say the city's tap water meets and, under some criteria, exceeds their standards.

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Courage Under Fire

Leslie Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pollutants, Clean Energy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Gasland, Impact News
Leslie Grossman

Last night I was struck dramatically by more courage. I saw the film Gasland.

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Beak Deformities On The Rise: Causes Unknown For Birds' Avian Keratin Disorder

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pacific Northwest, Beaks, Crows, Beak Deformities, Nuthatches, Causes, Black Capped Chicadees, Chickadees, Pollutants, Ornithologists, Selenium, Avian Keratin Disorder, Woodpeckers, Organochlorines, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Scientists have observed the highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations in Alaska and the Nor...

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Greensburg, Kansas: From Green-town to Clean-town

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Project Explore, Baking Soda, Eco-Environment, Donor Fatigue, Twilight Theatre, U.S. Department of Energy, Eco-Innovation, Green Economy, Usda, National Renewable Energy Lab, Country Music, PF Waterworks, Dorothy Gale, Twister, Vegetable Gardens, Fema, Leed, TADgreen Inc, Green Cleaners, Spirit of Greensburg Committee, Clorox Company, Man-Made-Disasters, White Vinegar, Clorox, Green Economies, Survivors, Ralph Appelbaum, Green Cleaning, Cooling, Small Business, Caroma USA, Clorox-Company, Bauer Power, Sichuan Provence, Kansas Housing Resources Corporation, Fund-Raising, Salt, Small Businesses, Leed-Certified-Home, Eco-Toxins, General Motors, Discovery Channel, Greensburg/GreenTown, Ground-Source Cooling, Sustainable German Technology, Borax, Meadowlark House, Global-Economy, OCW Foundation, AT&T, Rebuilding, Samoa Tsunami, China Earthquake, Education and Outreach, Clean Infrastructure, Outdoor Eco-Environments, Environmentally Conscious, Pollutants, Greensburg Kansas, Volcanic Ash, The Green Economy, Usde, Natural Home Magazine, Global Economy, German Technology, Discovery Communications, The Wizard of Oz, 9/11, Outreach, Eco-Friendly, Silo Eco-Home, Pollutant, Kansas, USDA-Rural Development, Office Depot, Sustainable Technology, Eco Friendly, EF Scale, OneCleanWorld Foundation, Big Well Museum, Environmental Sustainability, Sun Chips, Enhanced Fujita, Advocacy, Big Green Box, Fund Raising, One Clean World Foundation, Sterling-Publishing, Green-Economy, Sears, Outdoor Eco-Environment, Mother Earth News, EF5 Tornado, Natural-Home-Magazine, 24-Hour News Cycle, Environmental-Sustainability, Commercial Cleanser, Education, Green Infrastructure, Tsunami, Green Dwellings, Kiowa County Commons, Solar Hot Water, Wind Turbines, Tornado, Greensburg-Kansas, Conscious Living, Vinegar, Kiowa County, Kansas Tornado, Toxins, Disaster-Victims, Schmidt/Manlier Family, Green Buildings, Richard Haymes, Leed-Certified Home, Public Health, Greensburg 2020, Tropical Cyclone, Eco-Home, Commercial Cleaners, Sterling Publishing, Kiowa County United, Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing, George Jones, Green Industry, Rooftop Gardens, Fundraising, Cleaning, Viega, ef5, Ocwf, Bnim, Green News
Michael DeJong

After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.

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New EPA Rule Targets Harmful Mercury Emissions, Would Cut Them By More Than 50 Percent

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solid Waste Incinerators, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa Pollutants, EPA Mercury, Epa, Pollutants, Boilers Pollution, Mercury Emissions, Air Pollution, Green News

WASHINGTON -- New federal rules are in the works to limit the amount of mercury and other harmful pollutants released from boilers and solid waste inc...

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Why Should You Care About Bad Air?

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Air Quality Index, Smog, Health, Environment, Pollutants, Los Angeles, Air Quality, Air Pollution, Ozone, Breathing, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

In past years, as many as 4 percent of all deaths in the United States were attributable at least in part to air pollution. What's a living organism to do? We can't stop breathing.

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Detectair, High-Tech Vest, Alerts You To Pollutants In Your Airspace

Ecouterre | Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pollutants, Toxicity, Detectair, Urban Pollutants, Vest Air Pollutants, Green News

Imagine being able to sidestep encounters with common urban pollutants like benzene, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nitrogen oxide. That's the philosop...

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Upper East Side's Air Pollution Levels Some Of City's Highest: Survey

nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Kathleen Lucadamo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pollutants, Upper East Side, Air Pollution, New York City Community Air Survey, Manhattan Air Pollution, New York News

The upper East Side, a posh neighborhood known for luxury buildings and even Mayor Bloomberg's home, has a disturbing level of dangerous pollutants in...

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Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Neglected At A Cost To Health

The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Lead, Baths, Municipalities, Rashes, Health, Toxic Water, Wells, Clean Water Act, Heavy Metals, Barium, Epa, Clean Water Act Violations, Showers, Manganese, Pollutants, Arsenic, Water Utilities, Public Health, Sewage, Drinking Water, Green News

Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...

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600 U.S. Neighborhoods Have Air That Could Cause Cancer

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Air, Epa, Los Angeles, Pollution, Cancer, Toxic Substances, Climate Change, Pollutants, Green News

WASHINGTON — Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that ...

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What's In Our Cleaning Products?

MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pollutants, Green Living, Chemicals, Cleaning Products, Toxins, Green News

Cleaning products are some of the things that we all use where we're used to willingly allowing tons of chemicals we can't pronounce into our own home...

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