Argentina has some of the most severe pollution in the world. The country's leaders have mainly ignored the issue and there has been little public clamor.
AP | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
CRESTWOOD, Ill. — Federal agents raided a Chicago suburb's government offices Wednesday to look for evidence of any crimes related to allegation...
AP | JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide...
HealthDay News | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green
The common antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl), an anticonvulsant and two types of antidepressants were among the seven types of pharmaceuticals ...
michiganmessenger.com | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
Dioxin, a by-product of the chemical manufacturing process, has long been known as a carcinogen and is regulated by state and federal agencies. EPA st...
David S. Beckman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
The core component of California's Clean Water Act is the issuance of permits -- basically, limitations on the discharge of pollution -- to dischargers of water pollution.
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 02.19.2009 | Green
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal regulators have settled a lawsuit with environmental activists and nine states over standards for mercury emissio...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation's largest public utility said Monday tests showed slightly elevated levels of contaminants in the Tennessee River ...
tennessean.com | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
TVA has released muddy sludge once again, this time on the Ocoee River in East Tennessee. Efforts to repair one of a series of dams on the river rele...
AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
AP reports on a second TVA spill: The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured ...
AP | BETH RUCKER | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green
KINGSTON, Tenn. — Tennessee's governor promised greater oversight of coal ash retention ponds Wednesday after viewing damage from a spill that r...
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
KINGSTON, Tenn. — Some water samples near a massive spill of coal ash in eastern Tennessee are showing high levels of arsenic, and state and fed...
VBS.tv | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
A toxic coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee ruined land, homes and lives recently, bringing to the fore an inconvenient truth about coal: it's not clea...
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green