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Enbridge’s Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes Are ‘Ticking Time Bomb’
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 10th, 2015
EcoWatch: The Straits of Mackinac is a narrow waterway that separates Michigan`s lower peninsula from its upper peninsula. The straights connect two of the Great Lakes: Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. But underneath this iconic part of the Great Lakes are two 62-year old pipelines.
The pipelines have never been replaced, despite the well-documented risk of a rupture. "If just one of the pipelines ruptured, it would result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of oil--and that’s if Enbridge, the company that owns...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 10th, 2015
EcoWatch: Yielding to pressure from campaigners across the state who spent years pushing the University of California (UC) to divest its holdings from fossil fuels, the university system’s chief investment officer announced yesterday that the $91 billion fund would begin by pulling all direct investments out of coal and tar sands mining companies. Those investments, totaling $200 million, have already been removed.
Incredible news -- University of California dumps coal & oil sands investments: http://t.co/IIQQJ5e4ax...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on One of the World’s Largest Universities Divests From Coal & Oil SandsCalifornia Becomes First State Label Monsanto’s Roundup as Carcinogen
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 8th, 2015
EcoWatch: In a first for the country, California`s Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) has issued plans to list glyphosate--the toxic active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide--as known to cause cancer. Big news! California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto`s Roundup 'Carcinogenic` http://t.co/gbIK0XVkhd #BanRoundup pic.twitter.com/6QZqUw9oxm -- Center 4 Food Safety (@TrueFoodNow) September 6, 2015 According to a "notice of intent" issued last week by the Cal/EPA`s California`s Office of Environmental...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on California Becomes First State Label Monsanto’s Roundup as CarcinogenCalifornia Senate Passes Nation’s Strictest Ban on Microbeads
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 8th, 2015
EcoWatch: The California State Senate passed AB 888 on Friday, banning personal care products containing plastic microbeads. The bill`s amendments need to be approved by the State Assembly and, if passed, it will head to Gov. Brown`s desk. If the bill is approved and signed by the governor, as expected, it would become the nation`s most stringent microbeads ban yet--preventing 38 tons of plastic pollution from entering California`s waterways every year, according to 5 Gyres Institute.
The bill "prohibits,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on California Senate Passes Nation’s Strictest Ban on Microbeads6.5 Million Americans Drink Water Contaminated With the Chemical Used to Make Non-Stick Pans
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 28th, 2015
EcoWatch: When you drink a glass of water, you expect it to be clean and pure, not contaminated with invisible toxic chemicals. But nationwide testing has found that 6.5 million Americans in 27 states are drinking water tainted by an industrial compound that was used for decades to make Teflon.
The chemical, known as PFOA, has been detected in 94 public water systems. The amounts are small, but new research indicates that it can be hazardous even at the tiniest doses. PFOA and closely related fluorinated...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 6.5 Million Americans Drink Water Contaminated With the Chemical Used to Make Non-Stick PansHumans: The Worst Predators on the Planet
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 21st, 2015
EcoWatch: Watch any nature documentary and you’ll see the same story unfold time and time again: A predator approaches a group of potential prey and ends up taking down a single animal, perhaps the youngest, the weakest or the oldest among them.
To get a glimpse of a superpredator, just look in the mirror: http://t.co/kvkqS0cNVu pic.twitter.com/Pcoqb9STDd
-- Science News (@ScienceNews) August 20, 2015
Watch human beings doing the same thing and you’ll observe something different: They’ll either take...
Grassroots Pressure Escalates to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 14th, 2015
EcoWatch: The two reactors at Diablo Canyon are the last ones still operating in California. And the grassroots pressure to shut them down is escalating.
Together grassroots activists have shut three California reactors at San Onofre, between Los Angeles and San Diego and one each at Rancho Seco, near Sacramento and at Humboldt, perched on an earthquake zone in the north.
NRC Panel Rejects Challenges To Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant http://t.co/JZSykPtWeR pic.twitter.com/7IM527pJLh
-- Dan Yurman (@djysrv)...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Grassroots Pressure Escalates to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuke PlantColorado Governor Drinks Water From Animas River After Historic Mine Waste Spill
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 13th, 2015
EcoWatch: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was at the Animas River in Durango, Colorado yesterday, dealing with the ongoing chaos of the acid-mine pollution caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) mistake at the Gold Strike Mine that turned the river a ghoulish orange-yellow color. Gov. Hickenlooper--always a media showboat--decided he was going to drink water out of the Animas River to prove a point that it was safe and as reported by the Durango Herald newspaper he did just that.
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 12th, 2015
EcoWatch: The fluids used for hydraulic fracturing in California oil wells contain dozens of hazardous chemicals linked to cancer, hormone disruption and reproductive system damage, according to a new report by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
In the analysis, “California’s Toxic Fracking Fluids: The Chemical Recipe," EWG deconstructs drilling companies’ use of 200 unique chemicals in nearly 700 wells across the state, with each company deploying around two dozen chemicals. These chemicals have the potential...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Fracking Chemicals Linked to Cancer, According to New ReportHeat Index in Iran Hits 164 Degrees: Among Hottest Urban Temperatures Ever Endured by Mankind
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 3rd, 2015
EcoWatch: A heat wave passing over the Middle East sent temperature skyrocketing to extreme levels over the weekend.
In the Iranian city of Bandar Mahshahr--a city of more than 100,000 people atop the Persian Gulf--the heat index, reached an astonishing 73C (164F) on Friday afternoon, according to the Weather Channel.
Temperatures were so high, the city almost broke a world record, just a few degrees lower than the highest ever record heat index, which was recorded at 81C (178F) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
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