http://www.mail.com/subjects/1658-water-environment.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1658-water-environment.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2085932-report-card-great-lakes-big-problems.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday. The International Joint Commission, which advises both nations on issues aff... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:36:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2085932-report-card-great-lakes-big-problems.html 2013-05-14T22:36:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines... Tue, 07 May 2013 18:23:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html 2013-05-07T18:23:53Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2064398-scenic-struggling-s-illinois-braces-oil-rush.html VIENNA, Ill. (AP) — This is the Illinois that many people never see — the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps. Blacktopped county roads wend through no-stoplight towns. Locals speak in soft drawls and talk of generations who've lived on the same land or in the sam... Mon, 06 May 2013 03:45:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2064398-scenic-struggling-s-illinois-braces-oil-rush.html 2013-05-06T03:45:01Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2059798-apnewsbreak-judge-axes-federal-suit-lake.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles against air quality regulators who are requiring the city to do more to control dust on a lake that was siphoned dry a century ago to provide water for the booming metropolis. U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii granted a motion Wednesday to dismiss the lawsuit in the latest... Fri, 03 May 2013 00:36:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2059798-apnewsbreak-judge-axes-federal-suit-lake.html 2013-05-03T00:36:07Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2042072-nm-grapples-with-tough-choices-drought-persists.html HATCH, N.M. (AP) — In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry — reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile farming community to the nation's leading pecan-producing county. Only puddles remain, leaving gangs of carp to huddle together in a desperate effort to avoid the fate of thousands of freshwater clams, their shells empty and broken on the river bottom. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:31:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2042072-nm-grapples-with-tough-choices-drought-persists.html 2013-04-24T17:31:59Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039334-appeals-court-upholds-epa-block-wva-mine.html MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a lower court's ruling i... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:44:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039334-appeals-court-upholds-epa-block-wva-mine.html 2013-04-23T19:44:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2024784-colorado-river-tops-2013-endangered-waterways-list.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Drought and demand are pushing the Colorado River beyond its limits — with the needs of more than 40 million people in seven Western states projected to outstrip dwindling supply over the next 50 years, according to an endangered rivers list released Wednesday. The annual top-10 list by Washington, D.C.-based American Rivers points to a t... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:56:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2024784-colorado-river-tops-2013-endangered-waterways-list.html 2013-04-17T19:56:12Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2019704-iaea-reviewing-cleanup-damaged-japan-nuke-plant.html TOKYO (AP) — The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency Monday began reviewing the decommissioning process at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, where new problems are triggering growing safety concerns about a cleanup expected to take decades. The experts will assess and analyze melted reactors, radiation levels and waste management at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant ... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:01:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2019704-iaea-reviewing-cleanup-damaged-japan-nuke-plant.html 2013-04-15T07:01:57Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2012146-water-rats-outages-japan-nuke-plant-precarious.html TOKYO (AP) — A rat causing a power outage by short-circuiting a temporary switchboard. Another blackout occurring as workers install anti-rat nets. Holes in the linings of huge underground tanks leaking radioactive water. Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has run into multiple problems recently that highlight its precarious state mor... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:52:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2012146-water-rats-outages-japan-nuke-plant-precarious.html 2013-04-11T01:52:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2009806-nh-jury-exxon-mobil-owes-236m-gas-chemical.html CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An order for Exxon Mobil to pay $236 million in damages for groundwater contamination is by far the largest verdict in state history but represents only about two days' worth of profit for the energy company, an industry analyst said. Fadel Gheit, managing director of oil and gas research and a senior analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., sai... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:53:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2009806-nh-jury-exxon-mobil-owes-236m-gas-chemical.html 2013-04-10T06:53:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1991334-report-predicts-ever-bigger-lake-erie-algae-blooms.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during the summer and fall of 2011. It sucked oxygen from the water, clogged boat motors and washed ashore in rotting masses that turned beachgoers' stomachs. It was also likely an omen ... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:06:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1991334-report-predicts-ever-bigger-lake-erie-algae-blooms.html 2013-04-01T20:06:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1987280-starving-sea-lion-pups-fill-calif-rescue-centers.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of starving sea lion pups are washing up on beaches from San Diego to Santa Barbara, overwhelming rescue centers and leaving scientists scrambling to figure out why. At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Mari... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:06:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1987280-starving-sea-lion-pups-fill-calif-rescue-centers.html 2013-03-29T22:06:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986070-requirements-ballast-water-dumped-ships.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided a pathway to U.S. waters for invasive species that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars. Commercial vessels are equipped with tanks that can hold millions of ... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:11:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986070-requirements-ballast-water-dumped-ships.html 2013-03-29T07:11:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1980798-report-big-okla-quake-2011-man-made.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual and widely felt 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, a team of university and federal scientists concluded. That would make it the most powerful quake to be blamed on deep injections of wastewater, according to a study published Tuesday by the journal ... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:04:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1980798-report-big-okla-quake-2011-man-made.html 2013-03-26T23:04:49Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1980360-epa-than-half-streams-poor-shape.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of the country's rivers and streams are in poor biological health, unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other creatures, according to a new nationwide survey released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency sampled nearly 2,000 locations in 2008 and 2009 — from rivers as large as the Mississipp... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:52:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1980360-epa-than-half-streams-poor-shape.html 2013-03-26T18:52:26Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979142-peru-declares-amazon-oil-contamination-emergency.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol. Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have be... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:01:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979142-peru-declares-amazon-oil-contamination-emergency.html 2013-03-26T03:01:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1978406-judge-sides-with-wyoming-fracking-chemical-suit.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to obtain lists of the ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids. Environmental groups had requested the ingredient lists from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, arguing that the public needs to know what chem... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:08:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1978406-judge-sides-with-wyoming-fracking-chemical-suit.html 2013-03-25T19:08:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1974382-deal-requires-ferry-to-ash-dumping-2-years.html TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat would stop dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan within two years under a deal with federal regulators announced Friday. The agreement between Lake Michigan Carferry, which operates the S.S. Badger, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would require the ship to retain its ... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:42:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1974382-deal-requires-ferry-to-ash-dumping-2-years.html 2013-03-23T03:42:16Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1974160-fla-marine-vet-fights-cancer-government.html SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Marine veteran Tom Gervasi has spent the last 10 years fighting cancer and the U.S. government. The 76-year-old Sarasota man has a rare form of breast cancer that he believes is due to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where he trained in the mid-1950s. On Friday, Gervasi went into the hospital so doctors... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:46:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1974160-fla-marine-vet-fights-cancer-government.html 2013-03-22T21:46:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971598-sierra-club-blasts-plan-to-improve-fracking.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking. The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made peace with some national and regional environmental groups, agreeing to go through an independen... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:02:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971598-sierra-club-blasts-plan-to-improve-fracking.html 2013-03-22T02:02:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970196-mayors-press-federal-focus-miss-river.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mayors from communities along the Mississippi River said Thursday that they would work with federal lawmakers to sharpen the national focus on the waterway after two years in which shipping has been threatened by flooding and then drought. Looking to wield more clout on river matters, about a dozen mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana gathe... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:34:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970196-mayors-press-federal-focus-miss-river.html 2013-03-21T19:34:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967868-sides-agree-tough-fracking-standards.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for fracking in the Northeast that could lead to a major expansion of drilling. The program announced Wednesday will work a lot like Underwriters Laboratories, which puts its familiar UL seal of ap... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:52:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967868-sides-agree-tough-fracking-standards.html 2013-03-20T20:52:54Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967354-court-sides-with-timber-industry-runoff-dispute.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with timber interests in a dispute over the regulation of runoff from logging roads in western forests. In a 7-1 vote, the court reversed a federal appeals court ruling which held that muddy water running off roads used in industrial logging is the same as any other industrial pollution, requiring a C... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:38:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967354-court-sides-with-timber-industry-runoff-dispute.html 2013-03-20T14:38:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956750-tenn-university-proposes-fracking-land.html NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the environmental impact of such drilling — a proposal that environmentalists condemn as a conflict of interest. The unique proposal is being considered as natio... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:09:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956750-tenn-university-proposes-fracking-land.html 2013-03-15T23:09:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1955766-report-nc-base-toxic-water-to-1948.html RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Drinking water contamination at North Carolina's sprawling Camp Lejeune military base could date to 1948, five years earlier than researchers had reported previously, a federal report indicates. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry plans to release a report Friday on the contamination that has led to a long-running dis... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:14:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1955766-report-nc-base-toxic-water-to-1948.html 2013-03-15T01:14:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1950596-adb-asia-wealth-buys-access-to-clean-water.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's most populous region. But its richest countries and wealthiest citizens likely have better water supplies and governments better prepared for natural disasters. The assessments made b... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:45:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1950596-adb-asia-wealth-buys-access-to-clean-water.html 2013-03-13T05:45:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1948080-china-wrestles-with-cost-cleaner-environment.html BEIJING (AP) — Facing public outrage over smog-choked cities and filthy rivers, China's leaders are promising to clean up the country's neglected environment — a pledge that sets up a clash with political pressures to keep economic growth strong. An array of possible initiatives discussed by officials and state media ahead of this week's meeting of China'... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:36:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1948080-china-wrestles-with-cost-cleaner-environment.html 2013-03-12T08:36:10Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1946460-americas-love-water.html NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country's heart. As New York City grapples with the legality of a ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sugary drinks at some businesses, one thing is clear: soda's run as the nation's beverage of choice has fizzled. In ... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:27:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1946460-americas-love-water.html 2013-03-12T03:27:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1939670-wisconsin-assembly-passes-sweeping-mining-bill.html MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly approved a polarizing mining bill Thursday and sent the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, completing a long push to help a Florida-based company open a giant iron mine near the shores of Lake Superior over environmentalists' objections. Minority Democrats dragged out debate for nearl... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:19:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1939670-wisconsin-assembly-passes-sweeping-mining-bill.html 2013-03-08T02:19:07Z