Search results for cleanup plan

Environment Feb 8, 2024

Southern California's smog-cutting plan is failing and regulators would rather point fingers than fix it

Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation's worst smog from Southern California's air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are wasting time pointing ...

Environment Feb 8, 2024

Navy looks to test drinking wells for potential 'forever chemicals' from Chesapeake base

Nicole Jones read a poster's laundry list of health effects from drinking water contaminated by chemicals found in firefighting foam: high cholesterol, changes in liver enzymes, preeclampsia in pregnant women, low infant ...

Plants & Animals Jan 22, 2024

Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests. Black birds roost on the ...

Ecology Jan 22, 2024

Bloom and bust: New study details exactly how terrible algae is for Florida's economy

Algal blooms can mean toxic fumes, green muck, nasty stench, and death for seagrass and marine animals. All of it is bad for Florida's economy, and sometimes human health. But just how bad has been murky—until now.

Ecology Jan 17, 2024

As abandoned boats pile up in California waters: Who is responsible for the environmental damage?

On Jan. 2, a 27-foot sailboat sank off the southern coast of Alameda in stormy weather. Rescue crews saved the man on board, but the ship landed beside a long rock wall jutting from the island.

Environment Dec 6, 2023

Dangerous proximity of ships, pipeline led to California oil spill; investigators urge reform

A federal agency wants changes in how container ships are anchored off Southern California as well as new safety measures for vessels near offshore pipelines to help prevent or minimize ruptures like the one that spilled ...

Environment Nov 16, 2023

Relying too much on carbon dioxide removal is 'likely inconsistent with international law,' say researchers

Governments that over-rely on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to meet their climate targets may be breaching international law, says a new study.

Environment Nov 14, 2023

Toxic gunk cleansed from South Carolina's Congaree River 13 years after first reported. What's next?

Thirteen years after a kayaker reported stepping into a stinging patch of muck in the Congaree River, contractors have cleaned up the toxic mess that covered a stretch of the river bottom below the Gervais Street bridge in ...

Environment Oct 26, 2023

Nearly 40 years later, one of Colorado's longest-running Superfund sites still has no radioactive waste cleanup plan

Jeri Fry was six years old when she toured the uranium mill outside town where her dad worked.

Earth Sciences Oct 25, 2023

How cleanups along Miami's waterways have led to a team effort, environmental changes

A decade ago, Dave Doebler and Dara Schoenwald began bringing people together to remove trash along Miami's waterways.

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