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Regulator probes waterfowl landings on toxic Canada oil sands ponds
2014-11-05 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New reports of waterfowl landing on toxic ponds of industrial waste in the oil sands of northern Alberta are being investigated by the Canadian province's energy regulator in light of the death of 1,600 ducks on such ponds in 2008. That incident six years ago led to charges against one of the biggest companies in the tar sands and boosted environmental opposition to operations there. "We've received reports from a few different companies in the area that there have been waterfowl landing on...
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EPA Proposes New Rule for Toxic Chemicals
2014-11-05 15:21:00| Chemical Processing
Nonylphenols and nonylphenol ethoxylates get specific attention
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11.05.14 -- EPA Removes Two Toxic Hotspots On Lake Superior And Lake Michigan From Binational List
2014-11-04 00:34:41| pollutiononline Home Page
11/15/14 Pollution Online Newsletter
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Sunderbans' water getting toxic: Scientists
2014-11-02 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Climate change is causing toxic metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards. They predict that after about 30 years, increasing ocean acidification - another dark side of spiked atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide - could in fact unlock the entire stock of metals like copper and lead gathered in the sediment layer, and release them...
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EPA Announces Removal Of Two Toxic Hotspots On Lake Superior And Lake Michigan From Binational List
2014-10-31 03:01:24| pollutiononline Home Page
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that two U.S. Areas of Concern, Deer Lake in the Lake Superior basin and White Lake in the Lake Michigan basin, have been removed from the binational list of toxic hotspots that were targeted for cleanup in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
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