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Chevron Faces Ire in Equador

Chevron is preparing for an unfavorable ruling in what looks like the world's largest environmental lawsuit. Dwellers in the former oilfields of Equador bitterly resent the pollution -- and the deaths they believe resulted.
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009

Decision on Largest Lead-Tainted Neighborhood

The nation's largest residential lead pollution site reached a key milestone today with the signing of an EPA decision on how to clean up thousands of residential yards in eastern Omaha contaminated over decades by emissions from the former ASARCO lead refinery.
Source: ENS, 05/15/2009

"Study Halves Prediction of Rising Seas"

"A new analysis halves longstanding projections of how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica's massive western ice sheets fully disintegrated as a result of global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009

41st Annual National Conference on Radiation Control

This year's event, "Advancing Radiation Protection in the 21st Century," includes an Environmental Session of May 20th.

International Thermal Treatment Technologies & Hazardous Waste Combustors

The Air & Waste Management Association will present sessions on thermal treatment technologies for the management of hazardous, radioactive, mixed, munitions, medical/pharmaceutical, and municipal wastes.

Growing A City In A Greener Way

For many small town mayors, growth is all good. After all, more houses means more tax revenue, more retail, more jobs. One Alabama mayor agrees, but he also recognizes green space is an amenity worth keeping. And for that, the timing couldn’t be better. The Environment Report's Gigi Douban reports.
Source: Growing A City In A Greener Way, 05/14/2009

Bringing a Fish Back from the Brink

A million year old cycle of fish migration almost came to an end in the waters off of the nation’s capital. But a monumental conservation effort has brought the American Shad them back from the brink.
Source: Environment Report, 05/14/2009

Power from the People

"Germany is moving quickly to develop alternative energy, allowing individual homes to sell excess power to electric companies. Also, Abu Dhabi goes green and an icon of the environmental movement."
Source: HDNet, 05/14/2009

Chinese Solar Company Plans U.S. Manufacturing Plant

"The announcement by China-based Suntech reflects the value of federal and state incentives for renewable energy. It also counters a favorite argument on Capitol Hill that shifting to a clean energy future will send U.S. jobs overseas."
Source: SolveClimate, 05/14/2009

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