pollutants in the environment

• Inventor of Green Catalysts Offers Solutions for Cleaning Toxins and Pollutants in the Environment

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• U.S. Newswire
• September 08, 2009

• The Occurrence, Properties and Eco-Toxicity of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Metals in the Soil/Sediment Environment Are Discussed Inside This New Book.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c57498) has announced the addition of Bioavailability, Bioaccessibi...

• Business Wire
• May 21, 2007

• Chemical reaction: the EPA wants to reduce materials, not danger.

Column The EPA has shifted from a policy of regulating the release of pollutants to the environment to reducing the harmful materials used in the manufacturing process. Thus, companies are required to make a public report on the chemical amounts utilized in their products.

• Reason
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 10, March 1998

• Natural Resource Damages: A Sleeping Giant?

Anyone who operates a chemical, petrochemical or bulk petroleum terminal facility has likely encountered a natural resource damages (NRD) claim. This may be about to change, however, with many now referring to natural resource damages as a "sleeping giant" due to the potential for vast recoveries under a host of federal and state laws. Natural resource damages can be defined as compensation for injuries to natural resources sustained in the course of a spill or release of contamination or pollutants to the environment, with "injuries" referring to any measurable adverse change in the physical or chemical quality or viability of the resource. Natural resources are also governed by a number of federal laws including the Superfund and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and the Clean Water Act. ...

• Risk Management; New York
• Vol. 55 Nbr. 3, March 2008

• 40 CFR 1.45 - Office of Research and Development.

... respect to the transport and fate of pollutants which are released into the atmosphere;. (4) Devel...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 40: Protection of Environment

• South San Antonio Isd Students Take a Hike for Teks!

We are taking the kids a mile up and a mile back," said Nick Maldukis, area resource specialist. "A lot of these kids, from what I understand, don't have a lot of opportunity to get out and learn about their natural environment. "This is all part of the aquifer's recharge zone," said Mr. [Gonzalez]. "Whatever contamination goes on here seeps into our water system, the kids get a good idea of the consequence of pollutants in our environment." "The purchase of this land ensures the proper measures are taken to protect our natural resources," said [Niki Lake]. "We started purchasing some of it in 1993 and it took us over a decade to finish obtaining the land, said Maldukis.

• La Prensa; San Antonio, Tex.
• September 07, 2009

• Coal-Fired Plant Plans Defended - Ark. Opponents Fear More Pollution

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas utility regulators listened Tuesday as an executive with American Electric Power defended plans for a $1.3 billion coal-fired plant in southwest Arkansas that op ponents say will dump more pollutants in the environment, including the chief culprit of global warming. The state Public Service Commission is hear ing from both sides this week before deliberating whether to certify the project that Southwestern Electric Power Co., a division of Columbus, Ohio-based AEP, wants to build on 2,875 acres near Fulton by 2011.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 23, 2007

• Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel Awarded Conservation & Native Landscaping Honor by Environmental Protection Agency (Epa)

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Chicago Wilderness to receive a 2010 Conservation and Native Landscaping Award. The award recognizes seven and a half acres of ponds, wetlands and prairie plantings that surround the Schaumburg hotel. The native plantings that have been incorporated in the hotel grounds replace a majority of the turf grass and ornamental plants that were originally found in the area. The new plants help trap pollutants, clean storm water and reduce runoff. After the new plants established themselves in the environment, the use of herbicides was cut in half, maintenance hours were reduced by one third and water use has been reduced to o...

• U.S. Newswire
• January 21, 2011

• West County: Science Point Student Strikes Gold in Texas

Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School, seventh-grader Jack Andraka received a gold medal at the International Sustainable World Engineering, Energy and Environment Project Olympiad held recently in Houston. Jack battled it out with 1,654 other students representing 43 states and 71 countries. Jack's project, "A Bright Detective: Can Vibrio Fischeri Dectect Bio-Available Water Pollutants in the Watershed of Stony Creek," was judged as best among middle school entries in the Junior Environment category.

• Maryland Gazette
• May 19, 2010

• Toxic List Includes Mills

BOSTON - Paper mills in Jay and Rumford were among the top five industries in Maine that reported releasing toxic pollutants into Maine's environment in 2006, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday. And while the overall amounts detailed in the agency's toxic release inventory are down for Maine from 2005 they are up by 2.6 percent since 2001, according to information available at the EPA's Web site.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• February 23, 2008