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As temperatures drop below freezing and demand for energy soars, engineers at the University of Southampton have launched a new iPhone application to monitor the UK electricity grid.
A lack of oxygen and nutrients below the surface of beaches in Alaska's Prince William Sound is slowing the dissipation of oil remaining from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
According to their research, this wireless, hyper-connected, rather-text-than-talk age group relies on ads, product labels and news coverage for its green product information before performing a search on the Internet.
California approved the most stringent, eco-friendly statewide building code in the United States. The new code, which won a unanimous vote by the state building commssion and will apply to new homes, hospitals, schools and shopping malls, takes effect next January.
Since we've seen so many electronics companies improve the energy efficiency of their goods, eliminate toxins and put an increased focus on the greener aspects of products over the last year, it's only understandable that the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show's Sustainable Planet section grew 40 percent for this year with more than 30 exhibitors.
The EPA has released a map of all facilities it took enforcement actions against in 2009, including incidents of air and water pollution and illegal dumping of hazardous waste.
Gas drilling is often portrayed as the ultimate win-win in an era of hard choices: a new, 100-year supply of cleaner-burning fuel, a risk-free solution to the nation’s dependence on foreign energy. It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under enough pressure to peel paint from a car -- are pumped into the ground, pu
Illegally dumped garbage is piling up on federal lands, often creating toxic hazards and costly cleanups. And nowhere is it more apparent than on the vast, often-stunning tracts owned by the Bureau of Land Management, the nation's largest landlord with some 412,000 square miles, mostly in 12 Western states.
The good news: Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity is absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. The bad news: Recent studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
The EPA is keeping up the fight regardless of what it may do to the economy. It looks like the guilt or maybe even the shame got to one of the employees of Calumite when he said he "would not continue to falsify environmental reports." The company that makes glass from slag a steel by-product says it is cooperating fully with the investigation but is still lacking in other areas such as dust coll
