Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 19, 2025

Data collected in 2014-2016 documented levels of 1,4 dioxane exceeding acceptable health exposure levels and identified wastewater treatment plants in the upper Cape Fear River Basin as the likely source: …four areas of high 1,4-dioxane concentration were identified. 1,4-dioxane is not a product or by-product of wastewater treatment.

2022

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. Burning stuff to make things go wastes a lot of energy as heat and noise. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again. There are immediate gains for air pollution, especially as they pass through urban areas.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

By Amber Brady Ahead of the pivotal 2025 COP30 summit, which will take place in November and December, Amber Brady provides an updated version of our 2014 piece on Brazil’s environmental facts. million cubic meters of toxic waste, polluting the Doce River and displacing communities. The 2015 Mariana dam collapse spilled 43.7

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Industrial and household waste drifting down the Mekong River is eventually carried into the Tonle Sap Lake by the yearly monsoons, where it clogs up trawling nets and stunts the growth of fish by introducing toxins into the water.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] Complaint Trends Means also reported, for comparison, from 2009 to 2014 there were 1,160 water supply/stray gas complaints in the Northcentral/Eastern District with 132 found to be impacted. And deciding where that's coming from, it gets really complex, really fast.

2023

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

The selected response involved containment of the landfill in place with a two-foot soil cap by consolidation of waste material DEP said the response addressed threats to the environment, human food chain and nearby populations from direct contact to contaminants on Site and prevented surface water migration and air migration.

2012

Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

This decision also affects the European Nest Learning Thermostat from 2014. Google hasjust announcedthat its ending software updates for the first-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, released in 2011, and the second-gen model that came a year later.

2011

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Well drilled in 2014. Failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit production, waste general and well integrity reports. Response requested by March 25. [ DEP Inspection report. 4,200 gallon wastewater tank not in secondary containment. Drilled in 1800. Violations issued.

2025

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, committed last month to dissolve the agencys scientific research office, reduce the agencys staff by 65 percent, and take 31 actions to kill regulations or programs affecting toxic air emissions and water discharges, climate change, and waste management.

Earth Day

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2025

A 2014 study in Tasmania found plastic in the stomachs of 96% of short-tailed shearwater chicks studied. These small actions add up and collectively reduce the amount of plastic waste we create, while sending a clear signal to plastic producers that we are fed up with single-use plastics.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2025

The Walter Lyon Award will be selected in the same manner and has been an annual addition that started in 2014. Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Indirect impacts include a 45% to 47% increase in fatal and major injury crashes according to a 2014 study. For example, some items such as oil and gas wells, compressor stations, pipelines, and hazardous waste storage can all be found on this map, in addition to other demographic information.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Other violations include failing to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports, leaking or rotted out wastewater tanks and leaking gas. Both wells were drilled in December 2014. Violations issued.

2025

New Scientist

JULY 23, 2025

Do join the discussion on Facebook and let us know if we’ve missed any… Advertisement Ava, Ex Machina (2014) Ex Machina is less interested in whether androids are conscious than in whether humans believe they are. In the presence of Ava (Alicia Vikander), it is easy – tragically, too easy – to forget she is a machine. Butler to Iain M.

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Specifically, USACE has been in the Coldwater Creek region for the last 20 years attempting to remediate radioactive waste associated with the creek (which does not include Jana Elementary). The radioactive waste was released decades ago. Finally, they [tested] parks that had flooded, and found [radioactive waste]. Louis area.

Waste

Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Much of that effort was wasted. These were the following, showing northern mid-latitude extreme events from 1950-2013: Cohen et al (2014). 627-637, 2014. However, within the paper were a couple of graphs that attracted a lot of attention. Francis, K. Dethloff, D. Entekhabi, J. Overland, and J. Alexander, H. Vose, and J.

2013

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. In every other industry, point source permits require polluters to treat their wastes to dramatically reduce contaminants. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.

2014

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The proliferation of electronic devices has contributed to the accelerated surge of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in e-waste, according to a new study in Circular Economy. E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

2014

Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres.

2007

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

The USDA’s climate hubs , which were first launched in 2014, represent a unique collaborative effort across the agency to connect climate-related federal research and programming with farmers and agriculture workers in the field. There’s no time to waste.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

Communities near the two proposed production sites (Los Alamos and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina) are justifiably worried about their potential exposure in the event of an accident and as a result of contamination from decades-old waste that isn’t yet remediated. AAS: The production process creates radioactive waste.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

Waste

The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

COG owned the minerals under four leases in Reeves County, Texas executed between 2005 and 2014. COG also entered into surface use compensation agreements and right-of-way agreements to facilitate its use of the surface when it transported products and waste from the property.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Search interest in fracking in Pennsylvania peaked in 2014, but people were still interested in Googling this quite a bit. In addition to this uptick in production, at the same time, we had a big increase in waste production. So actually about 98% of waste production from fracked wells is in the form of produced water.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

Waste

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup. The Alberta government has allowed 1.4

Regulations

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

Toxic Substances Control Act

Physics World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The material, polycrystalline tin selenide, boasts a heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency of nearly 20%, and could be used in devices that capture waste heat from industrial power plants as well as heat generated by combustion engines in cars, ships and tankers. Over 65% of the energy produced worldwide is lost as waste heat.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014. There is no time to waste in preparing for a reliable system that recognizes the expanding role of renewables. In much of the country, electric power plant choices are now made via competitive markets.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Pike said Penn State research has shown “from 2008 to 2014, spreading oil and gas waste on roads released over 4 times as much radium to the environment as oil and gas wastewater treatment facilities, and 200 times as much radium as spill events.” Conventional gas well waste is not chemically distinct from unconventional waste.”

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons to 15.6

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Radiation

Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2023

In 2014, EPA began building a dataset of names and locations of anaerobic digestion facilities processingfood waste to better understand the practice and prevalence of food waste digestion in the United States(U.S.). … Continue reading Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Processing Food Waste in the United States

Waste