Showing posts with label Pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pollution. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Before-and-after photos of China's air show just how terrible its air pollution is





To get ready for the big parade, Chinese officials reduced the operations at thousands of factories and construction sites — even shutting some down — in Beijing and its surrounding provinces a couple of weeks in advance.... in just one day, the sky made a drastic change back to its gray hue. On September 3, the air quality was at a healthy level of 17 on the air quality index (a measure of how many harmful pollutants, including PM 2.5 are in the air). One day later it jumped up to 158, which is considered an unhealthy level of air pollutants.
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

EPA’s epic Gold King mine blunder on video, complete with a WTF moment







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Saturday, August 22, 2015

ICYMI: Another EPA-caused disaster in Georgia happened 5 months ago, but hazard continues in sediment flow

Another EPA disaster, this time in rural Georgia



In Greensboro, EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek.

The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — home to many federally and state protected species.

Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water, said microbiologist Dave Lewis, who was a top-level scientist during 31 years at the Environmental Protection Agency.

He became a whistleblower critical of EPA practices and now works for Focus for Health, a nonprofit that researches disease triggers.



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EPA knew of 'blow out' risk for tainted water at gold mine

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Cost of EPA's toxic spill could soar to nearly $30 billion

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Obama Administration Worst polluter of the year: The EPA released pollutants like arsenic & mercury into a Colorado River























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