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Students Recognized For Protecting Drinking Water

EPA recognized three Pennsylvania schools and an individual in the Schuylkill River Watershed for developing educational environmental projects that help protect drinking water.

Wash. Gas Station Fined For Failing to Monitor Leaks in Underground Fuel Tanks

Central Valley Grocery gas station in Poulsbo, Wash., has agreed to pay $11,356 for failing to properly monitor three underground storage tanks (USTs) for leaks for more than a year.

Researcher Investigating Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 98 doctorate-granting universities, has selected Rosenthal to receive the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award to pursue the novel research. Rosenthal is one of 30 award winners nationwide.

Waste Management to Develop New Organics Facility in Central Florida

Waste Management Inc. is developing a new organics facility in Apopka, Fla. The facility will process yard, food and clean wood waste to create value added soil amendments.

Is Nuclear Power Fair for Future Generations?

The recent nuclear accident in Fukushima Daiichi in Japan has brought the nuclear debate to the forefront of controversy. While Japan is trying to avert further disaster, many nations are reconsidering the future of nuclear power in their regions.

Company Offers Cost-fffective Solution to Meet Marcellus Wastewater Regulations

In what is regarded as significant breakthrough for energy companies working in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Play, Clean Streams LLC offers a time- and money-saving solution to simplify wastewater treatment and recycling.

Waste Managment Adds Largest Composting Facility in the Eastern U.S. to Network of Organics Processing Facilities

This expansion of organic recycling services and products will be beneficial to the company's residential, commercial, and industrial customers seeking to convert their organic wastes into products such as compost, mulch, and organic soil amendment.

Inventor of Bowflex Designs Solution for Offshore Drilling Spills

Inventor of the Bowflex®, Tessema Shifferaw, introduces The Shifferaw Oil Ocean Leak Prevention System, or SOOLPS, guaranteed to put both environmentalists and oil companies at ease.

Studies Estimate Cost of Environmental Disease in Children at $76.6B Per Year

In three new studies published in the May issue of the journal Health Affairs, Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers reveal the staggering economic impact of toxic chemicals and air pollutants in the environment, and propose new legislation to mandate testing of new chemicals and also those already on the market.

New Way of Turning Sun's Heat into Electricity

MIT researchers and their collaborators have come up with an unusual, high performance and possibly less expensive way of turning the sun’s heat into electricity.

EPA's GreenChill Partnership Reaches All 50 States

GreenChill’s food retailers are reducing pollution from commercial refrigeration, decreasing their impact on the ozone layer and protecting people’s health.

How to Make Energy for Free with Magnets (With Video)

Enlighten Media Inc. has released a revealing new audio course that shows how to use magnetic motors to make unlimited energy—for free.

Researchers Look to Evolution to Determine the Best Placement of Turbines

Researchers are using a "selection of the fittest" step-by-step approach called "evolutionary algorithms" to optimise wind turbine placement.

Colorado Petroleum Distributors to Pay $2.5 Million For Illegally Mixing, Distributing Gasoline

The action ensures that gasoline meets fuel quality and performance standards, and protects people’s health by reducing harmful VOC emissions.

BP Alaska to Pay $25M Penalty for Alaskan North Slope Oil Spill

BP Exploration Alaska Inc. will also implement a systemwide pipeline integrity management program for spilling more than 5,000 barrels of crude oil from the company’s pipelines on the North Slope of Alaska. The $25 million penalty is the largest per-barrel penalty to date for an oil spill.

Engineering Students Are Using the Sun to Power an Autoclave

Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.

UL Expands Water Testing Capabilities to Detect Chromium-6

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is now offering municipalities and customers across the country access to its globally recognized testing and certification services to detect Chromium-6, also known as hexavalent chromium, in drinking water supplies.

Climate Models Predict Global Warming Won't Diminish Wind Energy Production

The production of wind energy in the United States in the next 30 to 50 years will be largely unaffected by upward changes in global temperature, said a pair of scientists who analyzed output from several regional climate models to assess future wind patterns in America's lower 48 states.

Rotational Grazing Makes for Healthier Cattle, Environment

The rotational grazing technique, which has been adapted for a variety of livestock worldwide, calls for cattle to graze in small areas for shorter periods of time before moving onto other pastures.

Texas (Yes, Texas) Hosts One of the Biggest Earth Day Festivals in the U.S.

With more than 200 Earth Day festivals annually logged by the Earth Day Network – the leading organization that mobilizes the green movement across the world – across the country on April 22, the second largest was in Dallas.