Posted in restoration on Apr 10th, 2013
I met my fate early in life on the Millers River. As a young boy, I knew little of the river and the thick, color-changing slurry purging through our western Massachusetts town. River pollution was not a supper table topic in our deep-blue-collar neighborhoods. None of us ever fished in the river; even as kids [...]
Posted in water on Feb 19th, 2013
From Triple Pundit Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s People and Ecosystems Program. This post was co-written with James Mulligan, Executive Director at Green Community Ventures.Natural ecosystems provide essential services for our communities. Forests and wetlands, for example, filter the water we drink, protect neighborhoods from floods and droughts, and shade aquatic habitat for fish populations.While [...]
Posted in water on Jan 21st, 2013
Estuaries are the endpoint of our nation’s rivers and the nurseries of our nation’s seas. The health of our nation’s streams and rivers directly affect the health of our oceans. EPA has released its Climate Ready Estuaries 2012 Progress Report, which describes program accomplishments and the new National Estuary Program projects started during 2012, with [...]
Posted in water on Dec 27th, 2012
Water alerts continued to receive notice throughout 2012. Both drought and flooding topped the nation’s headlines. My Top Water Wishes for the New Year include a quick look back at some of the important water stories that streamed our network this past year. Top Ten Water Wishes for 2013: #10: Wishing that our nation increasingly recognize the [...]
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 policy on May 23rd, 2012
A recent article in the Washington Posts highlights a wedge that is growing between environmental groups working to clean-up the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental groups are clashing over the inclusion of nutrient trading in the EPA’s comprehensive plan to reduce pollution in the bay. Threats of lawsuits and pulled funding could derail the plan. The Washington [...]
Posted in freshwater on Feb 9th, 2012
The Washington Post has reported that local environmental activists won a fight against a development that they said would harm the wildlife of Maryland’s pristine Mattawoman Creek. The state said no to a half-built, $70 million Cross County Connector in a rare denial of a development permit after activists relentlessly picked apart the county’s arguments [...]
Posted in environment on Jan 9th, 2012
2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a milestone for a series of landmark environmental laws that began with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Those actions set our nation on a course to restore our damaged natural resources, but today, because of political pressures and court rulings, the [...]
Posted in sustainability on Aug 4th, 2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7x3bgYWhYs&w=425&h=349] The health of the Chesapeake Bay is a big deal. According to one recent estimate, it could be as much as a trillion-dollar deal. As the Bay’s water quality continues to be negatively impacted by polluted runoff, its 150-year-old crab, oyster and fishing industries have nearly collapsed. Blue crab and oyster harvests are [...]
Posted in policy on Jul 18th, 2011
Despite the U.S. House of Representatives’ approval last week of H.R. 2018: Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, it remains likely the bill may fail in the Senate. But the fact that the bill did pass in the House by a 239-184 vote is testament to how short-sighted gain can jeopardize even the most [...]
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