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Guide to Understanding Children's Exposure to Pollutants Released by EPA

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a user-friendly document to help risk assessors understand how children are exposed to pollution

27 Oct 2009

Burn Wise Campaign From the EPA to Reduce Wood Smoke Pollution for a Safer and Healthier Winter

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants homeowners to learn before they burn this winter. Wood smoke is made up of a mixture of gases and fine particle pollution that isn’t healthy to breathe indoors or out – especially for children, older adults and those with heart disease, asthma or other lung diseases

22 Oct 2009

Glowing Molecule Detects Cyanide Contamination in Water

A small molecule designed to detect cyanide in water samples works quickly, is easy to use, and glows under ultraviolet or "black" light

21 Oct 2009

Communityand the Environment Lose as Long Beach Port Caves into Polluting Truckers

A sustainable trucking fleet and long-term clean air gains supported by local environmentalists, community groups, harbor residents and workers could be jeopardized thanks to a settlement between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Association announced late yesterday

21 Oct 2009

ARCADIS Named as a Prime Contractor for U.S. Air Force $3 Billion Worldwide Environmental Restoration Initiative

ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Air Force as one of the prime contractors for the $3 billion Worldwide Environmental Restoration and Construction 2009 (WERC09) program

13 Oct 2009

Carbon Emissions Capture and Storage for the Paper and Pulp Industries

Battelle and Boise Inc. (NYSE: BZ) will conduct the first-ever feasibility study of new carbon capture and storage technology in the $140 billion pulp, paper and paperboard industry

13 Oct 2009

Chemical Management Reform Discussed by US EPA Administrator

In a speech today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced core principles that outline the Obama Administration's goals for legislative reform of this country's chemical management law

1 Oct 2009

Flu Drug, Tamiflu, Found Polluting River Water and Sewer Discharge of Japan

In a study published September 24th ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), researchers measured oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), the active metabolite of the popular anti-influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate), in samples of sewage discharge and river water collected near Kyoto City

29 Sep 2009

Gloves Come Off In Toxic Chinese Drywall Case

Americas Watchdog's Chinese Drywall Complaint Center has been doing
everything possible to assist the hundreds of thousands of US homeowners, who now live in a toxic, & potentially lethal home, because of imported Chinese drywall

23 Sep 2009

Depletion of the Ozone Layer is Levelling Off

By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale - and the findings look promising

22 Sep 2009