Current Environmental News

a collection of recent news stories from various online news agencies concerning the air, water, and land environment

 Soil, Solid Waste, and Agriculture

Water and Wastewater

Air

• EPA OKs Safety of Many Pesticides (6/11/02) 
• EPA: Old computers no longer junk (6/3/02)
• EPA mulls e_waste changes (5/30/02)
• EPA: U.S. Toxic Chemical Releases Fall 9 Percent (5/23/02)
• Resistant Bacteria Common in Grocery Store Chicken (5/21/02)
• Biodiesel fans tout solution to pollution (3/4/02)
• Drug Resistant Bacteria in Pigs Spread to People (2/7/02)
• Report recommends air-quality standards for concentrated animal feeding operations (2/8/02)
• Men Carrying Pollutant Have More Boys - Study (1/30/02)
• Study Details Ways to Reduce Risks to Water Resources from Waste Lagoons and Basins (1/30/02)
• Landfills Linked to Raised Birth Defect Risk (1/25/02)
• Farmers, Environment Could Benefit from New Fertilizer (1/22/02)
• Reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink (1/17/02)
• The Ames Strain (11/05/01)
• Metal-Eating Plant Holds Promise for Cleanups (8/15/01)
• Scientists Engineer Tomato Plant to Grow in Salty Water (8/06/01)
• To Save Gulf of Mexico Waters, Midwest Needs Wetlands (7/17/01)
• Evidence of D.C. Toxins Unheeded (7/8/01)
• Poison PCs/Toxic TVs: Report on Electronics Waste Reveals
  Billion Dollar Cost to Taxpayers (6/20/01)
• U.S. to sign global ban on 'dirty dozen' toxins (4/19/01)
• Tackling toxins is as easy as surfing the Web (4/3/01)
• Toxins are in most Americans' blood, study finds (3/26/01)
• Texas parks loaded with toxins (3/23/01)
• Researcher Turns to Pigs for Help in Site Cleanups (3/5/01)

• Fish Killer Microbe May Not Be Toxic, After All (8/6/02)
• Good Bacteria seen as potential cavity fighters (6/28/02)
• Ascariasis (6/17/02)
• 'Sewer Boy' Survives Five Hour Nightmare (6/13/02)
• Giardiasis (6/13/02)
• Dog waste poses threat to water (6/7/02)
• Wastewater Treatment Goes Into the Field, (3/20/02)
• Beauty Aids Contaminating Waterways (3/13/02)
• Scientists probe the life in rocks (2-16-02)
• Cities Monitor Sewage Flow From Hagerstown (2/12/02)
• Virginia Proposes $459 Million for Environmental Projects (1/3/02)
• Ammonia Pipeline Break Kills Fish, Wildlife (12/22/01)
• Ames’ increasing water usage prompts city to encourage water conservation (8/27/01)
• Price of Water Increasing Worldwide (8/23/01)
• CDC warns parents about pool disease dangers (7/6/01)
• Pesticide Fishing Spreading in Mexico (7/3/01)
• Dentists Unknowingly Endorse Arsenic and Lead Into Drinking Water (7/2/01)
• Symposium Addresses Water Security for the 21st Century (6/26/01)
• Nitrate in drinking water causes bladder cancer (5/15/01)
• Boone’s Water Pollution Control Plant Receives National Award
• Treatment Industry Benefits from Wider Wastewater Recycling (4/12/01)
• Chesapeake's Health Indicated by Return of Ospreys (4/3/01)
• Successful Test of Sewage Pipeline Aeration and Treatment (4/3/01)
• Home energy and water quiz (3/16/01)
• Cryptosporidium parvum in drinking water (3/5/01)
• Heavy metal: Arsenic is an endocrine disruptor (3/5/01)
• Digester Gas Energizes New Hampshire Wastewater Plant (12/11/2000)

• California takes on air pollution (7/22/02)
• "The Surface Record: ‘‘Global Mean Temperature’’ and how it is determined at surface level"
• Starving Bacteria of Iron Helps Wipe Out Body Odor (5/21/02)
• NASA improves knowledge of ozone depletion
• UK Experts Say Glacier Fall Not Climate Related (5/10/02)
• Most Americans Breathe Polluted Air (5/1/02)
• Tiny Air Pollutants May Get Into the Blood (2/20/02)
• Adirondack Lakes Seen Recovering From Past Acid Rain (2/13/02)
• It's not another ice age, but at least it's cooler (1/24/02)
• Global warming could prompt return of old refrigerant (9/10/01)
• EPA Looks for Early Help in Reducing Smog (7/12/01)
• Luxury Sedan Cuts Emissions by 99.5% (7/13/01)
• Annual Costs to Operate Typical Office Equipment
• Report: Ames not main cause of dioxins(6/28/01)
• New Honda Insight Achieves 'Greenest Car' Designation (6/26/01)
• Project Would Pump CO2 Deep into Norwegian Sea  (6/20/01)
• Global warming II quiz (3/30/01)
• Cleveland concentrates on cleaner air (3/14/01)
• New Hampshire Steps Into Efficient Vehicles (3/2/01)
• Global Warming: The Anatomy of a Debate
• The Sky Isn't Falling, and the Ocean Isn't Rising
• Sure, the North Pole is Melting. So What?