by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Posted: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT Updated: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York and five other Northeastern states are suing federal regulators to force them to help ensure that upwind states control their pollution. The suit against the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 3, 2016 | Climate Change, Health & Safety
Oil Sector, Investors React to SEC Probe of Exxon Over Climate Change; Many see investigation as potentially transformative moment for U.S. companies Olson, Bradley; Rapoport, Michael. Wall Street Journal (Online) [New York, N.Y] 21 Sep 2016: n/a Abstract According to...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | Accidents, Environmental Justice, Health & Safety, Pipelines
On a routine check of a surface coal mining facility in rural Alabama early this month, inspector Randall Aldridge first smelled gasoline. Then he saw dead plants and animals along a man-made pond that helps the region manage heavy rain. The cause had nothing to do...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
A 27 page report from Riverkeepers of North Carolina on the downstream contamination by the concentrated toxic chemicals in biosolids. Read the report. Haw River Assembly: Defending the river since 1982 Catawba Riverkeeper Mission Statement: We educate and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of...
