On AlterNet: water pollution
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "water pollution"
Han Shan, AlterNet. October 30, 2009.
It appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
Yee Huang, Center for Progressive Reform. October 23, 2009.
The implications could be hugely significant, not just for the Illinois River Basin but for other waterways polluted by animal waste.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. September 25, 2009.
For 30 years clean water has been the public's number one environmental priority, but we still don't seem able to act to protect those vital supplies.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. September 24, 2009.
More bad news about the threats to water quality from drilling operations that use fracking.
Robin Madel, Green Fork Blog. September 17, 2009.
The recent NY Times article about unsafe drinking water in West Virginia shouldn't be a call to rush out and fill your pantry with bottled water.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 16, 2009.
Forty percent of the nation’s community water systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act at least once, exposing over 23 million people to potential danger.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. September 15, 2009.
A recent story on the Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia -- and the indifference of state agencies -- blew the cover on one of the worst kept secrets.
AFPSeptember 15, 2009.
This ship is one of 32 vessels carrying toxic material that has been sunk by the mafia in the Mediterranean.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. August 26, 2009.
Have those passionate French gone too far this time?
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. August 24, 2009.
One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.
Catherine O'Neill, Center for Progressive Reform. August 20, 2009.
The USGS found methylmercury in every fish that it sampled -- an extraordinary indictment of the health of our nation's waters.
Steve Connor, Independent UK. August 20, 2009.
As plastics break down in the sea they release chemicals toxic to humans and animals.
John McQuaid, Yale Environment 360. August 14, 2009.
Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.
Elaine Shannon, Huffington Post. August 10, 2009.
EPA chief Lisa P. Jackson is revisiting the Bush administration's refusal to regulate rocket fuel pollution in the nation's drinking water.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. August 5, 2009.
Methane released from gas drilling has caused a fatal explosion and water contamination across seven counties in Pennsylvania.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. July 9, 2009.
The industry is misleading the public into a false choice between the economy and the environment.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. June 30, 2009.
As long as we see rivers as something to be consumed or treated as a dump, we will never be a healthy society.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. June 25, 2009.
The paper published a story about the virtues of natural gas drilling that read like an industry power point presentation.
Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. June 3, 2009.
An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
Catherine O'Neill, Center for Progressive Reform. June 3, 2009.
West Virginia has the most ridiculous reasoning for subjecting its residents to less stringent levels of mercury in the state's water.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. June 1, 2009.
Texas will receive 81 train cars full of PCB-contaminated sediment from the Hudson River every four to five days for six months.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. May 26, 2009.
Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning gas drilling industry.
Kelly Hearn, The Nation. May 20, 2009.
Scientists fear that the TVA's plan for cleaning up its toxic sludge spill in Tennessee may do more harm than good.
Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 11, 2009.
Industrial ag supplies most of our food, yet its lack of regulation may be more of a threat than Wall Street's.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. April 30, 2009.
When houses are exploding because of gas seeping into well water, you know you have a serious problem.
