Toxic Old Municipal Gas Plant Sites Contaminate Wisconsin
Many cities in Wisconsin still face toxic contamination from municipal gas plants closed six decades ago. Similar sites are found in other states.
Source: Wausau Daily Herald, 11/09/2010
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"EPA Tries To Get Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Back on Track"
"The Chesapeake Bay does not like your lawn. That green grass is probably coated with pesticides and fertilizers and studded with pet poop. All that washes off in the rain and causes environmental problems downstream in the Chesapeake."
Source: Wash Post, 11/08/2010
Got TMDLs? Sneak Peek of New Pollutant Loading Tool Could Raise Ruckus
EPA in-house tool may be released to public within months. It will give reporters themselves the ability to estimate the cumulative impacts of pollution on water bodies.
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MY-RTK Lets Users Probe Toxic Emissions from Their Smartphones
myRTK lets you thumb in an address or ZIP code and get back a map or list of Toxics Release Inventory facilities on your feature phone or smart phone.
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EPA Gives Public an Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: EJView
This new tool allows any user online to create custom study areas based on a wide range of variables: address, ZIP code, county, city, township, facility, watershed, or geographic coordinates. Other environmental data can then be mapped onto that study area.
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TRI Offers New "Comparative Query" Tool
The beta tool allows anyone to compare TRI information from a facility to air pollution data from the same facility or a related one. For example, an investigator could find inconsistencies in the amount of pollution reported by a facility under the two separate laws.
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Envirofacts Warehouse Gets Geographic Makeover, Update
This newly powerful, easy-to-use mapping tool can help environmental journalists find and report great local and regional stories.
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As TRI Goes Electronic, Speed Records Fall
The new record for getting raw data reported by industry to the general public: 28 days. Nearly 95 percent of reporting companies filed their reports electronically.
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"Coal Industry Spending to Sway Next Congress"
"The coal industry, facing a host of new health and safety regulations, is spending millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign donations this year to influence the makeup of the next Congress in hopes of derailing what one industry official called an Obama administration 'regulatory jihad.'"
Source: NYTimes, 11/03/2010
"Two Companies Seek Trade Secret Status for Fracking Fluids in Wyoming"
"Two chemical manufacturers are seeking an exemption from new rules in Wyoming that require public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas drilling process suspected of polluting groundwater."
Source: ProPublica, 11/03/2010
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