Environmentalists are backpedaling in their long march toward deindustrialization. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has offered to delay some of its plans to regulate so-called greenhouse gases. Republicans in Congress shouldn't hesitate to press their advantage. The agency's advance faltered last week with the announcement that it was willing to put off for three years new rules requiring biomass-fired boilers to obtain permits to emit carbon dioxide. This provides temporary financial relief to power plants that burn forest and agricultural products, wastewater treatment facilities, landfills and highly subsidized ethanol operations. Other restrictions announced Jan. 2 on coal-fired plants and oil refineries remain in place.
... does not change any of the existing agricultural, forestry, ranching, and wastewater treatment syst...
...%) and the rest is contributed from agricultural wastewater, animal husbandry wastewater or others....
... include unpaved road runoff, agricultural lands, timber harvest, livestock grazing, and cons... and lawns, septic tanks, and municipal wastewater treatment facilities. Because of their sedentary c...
First, poor people will defecate anywhere if they are not provided "toilets" (here a euphemism for latrine); and they must pay for these "toilets" or they will not value them. Yet each day, 42 billion pounds of chemical substances are produced or imported in the United States for commercial and industrial uses. [George] ignores the fact that no technologies exist to "treat" or make "disappear" carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals once they are added to the sewer. Most municipal sludge used to be dumped into the ocean. But public outrage at the ocean being used "as a dump" prompted a congressional ban. Since 1988, when Congress passed the Ocean Dumping Ban Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has promoted "land application." This means that right no...
... funding, sewers and sewage treatment are the best ways to manage domestic and industria... (hydrophobic) or removed from the wastewater in the treatment process. The disposal of sludge i...agricultural and other land are the dump for the noxious dregs ...
In recent months, several articles and letters have appeared on The Roanoke Times editorial page supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's new confrontational approach toward Chesapeake Bay restoration, as embodied in President Obama's Executive Order 13508 -- Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration. The latest is David Bernard's commentary of Nov. 2, "Virginia fails the Chesapeake," which criticizes the Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan as stunningly deficient. Like earlier editorial remarks and letters, Bernard stands firmly behind EPA's bay restoration methodology and places the blame for lack of bay restoration progress on Virginia and other bay tributary states.
... from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants. An estimated $1.5 billion in was...Agricultural runoff represents the greater share -- 38 percent...
THE Chesapeake Bay still is a treasured asset even after years of municipal sewage, factory wastes, agricultural and stormwater runoff poured freely into its waters. Freely" became costly as algal blooms sucked oxygen from its waters, and toxins fostered disease and death to its inhabitants. Oysters, fish, clams and crabs - once abundant and the pride of our Chesapeake - have been decimated. The loss in oyster production alone exceeds $4 billion. Bay watermen declined in numbers from 14,000 to 1,500 in less than 10 years, and the crabbing industry lost 4,500 jobs between 1998 and 2006.
... millions of dollars to modernize sewage treatment plants. Virginia has not levied a similar tax for ... practices and discharges from wastewater treatment plants. It must be transparent and enfor...
... does not change any of the existing agricultural, forestry, ranching, and wastewater treatment syst...
The Washington Department of Ecology will offer four workshops in September to explain how interested parties can successfully obtain about $80 million in grants and low-interest loans to improve and protect water quality. Municipalities, Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations can apply for the grants and low-interest loans, which can be used for upgrading and expanding wastewater treatment plants, reducing and managing stormwater pollution, enhancing urban development and agricultural practices, and preventing and reducing water pollution.
... of water purifying systems, for agricultural or consumption purposes, as well as for maintainin... of agricultural activity, from wastewater treatment and from oxidation of human and animal e...
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