Posted in pollution on Dec 14th, 2012
Nutrient pollution is one of the nation’s most widespread and costly environmental problems. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus from farm and lawn fertilizer, livestock waste, roads and houses, faulty septic systems, and treated sewage can turn waters green with slime and pollute waters for swimming, boating, and fishing. To help raise awareness about this growing environmental [...]
Posted in environment, fish, freshwater, policy, pollution, rivers, water on Nov 14th, 2012
From the Huffington Post In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called the Potomac River, polluted with sewage and riddled with algae blooms, a “national disgrace.” Forty years ago this year, the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA) was signed into law, and resulted in expansive, real improvements in the health of the Potomac River. The CWA [...]
Posted in pollution on Oct 29th, 2012
The Washington Post reported today on the potential environmental threats to the Chesapeake Bay posed by Hurricane Sandy. “More than a hundred million tons of dirty sediment mixed with tree limbs and junk float behind the Conowingo Dam, and Hurricane Sandy, a giant faucet nicknamed “Frankenstorm,” could send it pouring into the Chesapeake Bay,” says [...]
Posted in pollution on Oct 22nd, 2012
From Bloomberg Businessweek Tests of drinking water near a natural-gas drilling site in Wyoming back up findings that established the first link by the federal government between hydraulic fracturing and tainted water, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA recently issued its follow-up analyses of two test wells it drilled in Pavillion and of five residents’ water [...]
Posted in pollution on Aug 31st, 2012
During the hot, sultry, humidity-laced days of summer in Washington, D.C., scores of residents can be seen on the Potomac River. What most of them don’t know is that the 45 miles of the Potomac watershed that is in the District is considered so polluted that swimming in it poses risks of illness and disease, [...]
Posted in pollution on May 29th, 2012
The non-profit advocacy group American Rivers is naming the Potomac the nation’s most endangered river, saying it is threatened by nutrient and sediment pollution that lowers the quality of drinking water and kills marine life. The group’s annual report titled, “America’s Most Endangered Rivers,” notes what local friends of the Potomac have said for years: [...]
Posted in pollution on Nov 9th, 2011
Impervious surfaces. These are two words that most folks in their lifetime will never utter together, unless, of course, you happen to live in an urban flood plain. A little over 160 homeowners who live adjacent to Cameron Run in Fairfax, Virginia have become quite familiar with the concepts of imperviousness, and what it means [...]
Posted in pollution on Jul 2nd, 2011
According to the Billings Gazette, an ExxonMobil oil pipeline just east of the Laurel (MT) Bridge ruptured around 11:30 p.m. Friday July 1, dumping oil into the Yellowstone River. In a press conference Saturday morning, Yellowstone County and ExxonMobil officials said they don’t know yet what caused the break in the 12-inch pipeline or how [...]
Posted in pollution on Jan 12th, 2011
U.S. corporate agriculture is responsible for some of our most serious water quality issues according to a recent report by the Environment America Research and Policy Center. “Pollution from agribusiness is responsible for some of America’s most intractable water quality problems – including the ‘dead zones’ in the Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Mexico and Lake [...]
Posted in pollution on Oct 28th, 2010
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) National Resources Inventory (NRI) has shown that soil erosion in Montana decreased 39% over a 25-year-period. According to a report in the magazine Soil Erosion “the report showed that soil erosion declined from 10.5 tons per acre per year to 6.4 tons per acre per year during the land-use [...]
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