Tag Archives: Pollution
Most Satisfied With Air, Water Quality
Washington (UPI): People living in Europe and Asia are most satisfied with their air and water quality, with Hong Kong the least, surveys of 140 countries indicated.
The Gallup surveys found a median of 75 percent of adults from 140 countries...
Pollution Facts: Potomac River Threatened By Pollution, Congress
A new report named 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 and will only get worse if Congress rolls back regulations...
Corporate Pollution of the American Psyche
The big corporations are not just polluting our air, land, waterways and oceans” They are indoctrinating the populace with environmental and financial hubris. They pollute our human psyche. Part of the hubris is the idea their toxic dangerous...
Elitism in American Energy Decisions
The rancorous debate over whether the State Department should approve the Keystone XL pipeline highlights the fact that, in some ways, the United States is a culturally elitist nation. It is a reminder that throughout the past decades, American...
UK Air Pollution Causes Serious Health Concerns
13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom were caused by emissions from cars, planes, power plants, and trucks, according to a new study by MIT Researchers.
The findings, published in this month’s issue of the journal Environmental Science...
Past Time to Stop Greenhouse Gas Pollution
I trust the experts.
When doctors told me I had a tumor on my kidney, I didn’t start arguing with them about cell division. They went to medical school, and I did not. I didn’t need to understand how CAT scans worked, or what exactly...
Trial Date Set in Columbia Pollution Case
YAKIMA: A federal judge has rejected efforts by a Canadian smelter to drag other companies into a legal fight about Columbia River pollution, paving the way for a trial in September and potentially saving the state or U.S. government from having...
Pollution Levels Fall in North America
The level of industrial pollution being reported in North America dropped by almost 19 per cent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report from an agency that collects environmental data from Canada, the United States and Mexico.
The Commission...
Pollution, Pesticides Making Kids Vulnerable to Cancer
In the last one year, the number of children with cancer in the city has risen threefold. This disturbing fact has been revealed by the report of the School Health Programme for the year 2011-12.
Talking about the rise in number of cancer patients...
‘Water’ Way to Tackle Pollution at Rivers
Companies, under their corporate social responsibility programmes, are wading in to help clean up rivers and drains to rehabilitate the water source.
Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) Foundation, for instance, has a project called “Working Actively...
