je.st
news
Tag: water clean
New U.S. Clean Water Rule Clarifies Stream Protections
2015-05-29 05:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: One in three Americans, about 117 million people, get their drinking water from streams that lacked clear protection before a new Clean Water Rule issued Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Protection for many U.S. streams and wetlands has been confusing, complex, and time-consuming as the result of two Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and in 2006. The new rule is intended to provide clarity on protections for these smaller water bodies...
Clean Water Rule Will Protect Drinking Water For 1 In 3 Americans, If Congress Steps Aside
2015-05-28 06:26:47| pollutiononline Home Page
Recently the Obama administration closed loopholes that left the drinking water sources for more than 1 in 3 Americans at risk of pollution and destruction with the release of its long-awaited Clean Water Rule.
Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty and sentenced for Clean Water Act crimes
2015-05-17 12:28:04| Energy - Topix.net
Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34 million on environmental projects and land conservation to benefit rivers and wetlands in North Carolina and Virginia. Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, N.C., in February 2014.
Duke Energy Fined $102M for Clean Water Act Violations
2015-05-15 02:14:00| ENR.com: Headline News
As part of the settlement, the utility will pay $68 million in fines, and will fund $34 million in environmental mitigation programs.
Almost half Vanuatu people lack clean water month after cyclone: UNICEF
2015-04-22 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 100,000 people in Vanuatu have no clean drinking water, a month after a monster cyclone struck the tiny Pacific nation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. Two thirds of the archipelago's water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed and most wells are contaminated, UNICEF said in a statement. "There is water but quality is not that good because of the contamination," Ketsamay Rajphangthong, chief of UNICEF Vanuatu field office, told...
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] next »