Dec
24. 2008
Dike
breaks in East Tenn
Flood
of Sludge breaks TVA Dike Collapse Poses Risk of Toxic
Ash. Millions of Acres of toxic sludge breaks
through a dike at TVA's Kingston Coal-fired plant
Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking
one house off its foundation and putting environmentalists
on edge about toxic chemicals that maybe seeping
into the ground and flowing downstream. Coal
ash can carry toxic substances that include mercury,
arsenic, and lead according to a federal study.
Dec 26 update Utility
doubles estimate of Tennessee ash deluge
March
2, 2009 TVA
Coal Ash Update This is the latest view of the site, a land
mass of putrid power plant ash sic miles long, in
what was the most vibrant stretch of the Emory River
in Kingston, Tennessee. It is now biologically dead
and will take 5-10 years to restore and constitutes
the worst environmental disaster in the U.S. next
to the oil spill of the day the Exxon Valdez ran
aground in Prince William Sound in Alaska, in the
spring of 1989.
Baby
Fish In Polluted San Francisco Estuary Waters Are Stunted And
Deformed Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated
before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals
and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary
waters and food sources and pass on to their eggs, say UC Davis
researchers.
Low
Plains Drifter CAFOs do more than just assault the
olfactory senses. According to the Environmental Protection
Agency, hog, chicken and cattle waste are responsible for polluting
35,000 miles of U.S. rivers. Agricultural wastes are increasingly
to blame for causing catastrophic fish kills, the contamination
of drinking water, and even a vast "dead zone" in
the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles from the source. (Read
his "Tales from the Road" if you are really willing
to wipe the veils from your eyes, if not, take the blue pill
and stay asleep as our beautiful country is completely poisoned.)
Desert
wind blows health risks from Calif mines Heaps of toxic
mine waste rise like church steeples over this
wind-swept desert town, threatening the health of residents and
of thousands of off-road bikers.Tests on dust samples have revealed
some of the highest arsenic levels in the country — as much
as 460,000 times the level deemed safe by the federal government.
Closing Of
Plum Island Leaves Huge Clean-Up A real Love Canal in waiting!
Plum Island will not "die easily." Who knows what
sort of bioweapons were out there buried in leaky steel drums...
Bush
Admin Wants To Move Animal Disease Lab To Area
Near Livestock Herds The only U.S. facility allowed to research
the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease experienced several
accidents with the feared virus, the Bush administration acknowledged
Friday.
A 1978 release of the virus into cattle holding pens on Plum
Island, N.Y., triggered new safety procedures. While that incident
was previously known, the Homeland Security Department told a
House committee there were other accidents inside the government's
laboratory.
please
help colorado not to become a depleted uranium wasteland.
No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah's Redrock wilderness
to oil companies.But the Bush Administration cynically chose that
very day to advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases
for some 300,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil
and gas speculators. Join Robert Redford in blocking the Bush
Administration’s midnight raid on a crown jewel of our natural
heritage. Please
register your own opposition right now.
NASA:
Ionosphere not where it should be The
U.S. space agency says it has discovered the boundary between
the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily
low altitudes.
Harpooning
the HAARP: Not real sunrays. Not real clouds.
Did
magnetic blip trigger mass extinction?Rising hot material
upset convection in Earth's core, says new theory.
It was a dying on a scale never seen before or since
on Earth. The slaughter was everywhere; the fertile
ocean and balmy supercontinent
Pangea were transformed into killing fields, littered with the
bodies of ancient animals. By the time the dust had
settled on the Permian-Triassic
mass extinction 250 million years ago, 90 percent of life on
the planet had been snuffed out. Now a new theory
suggests the catastrophe was set in motion 15 million
years earlier, deep in the Earth. On the edge of
the molten outer core, a plume of super-hot material
began rising through the mantle, upsetting convection
in the core and throwing the planet's magnetic field
into disarray......more at link
Mike
Jani Promises that Fern Gully and Nanning Creek Tree Villages
Are Saved Can you believe it! Both current Humboldt County
tree-sits are officially saved and protected.
Yesterday I, other Forest Defenders, and a crew
from National Geographic accompanied Chief Forester
and President of the newly formed Humboldt Redwood
Company, Mike Jani, to Fern Gully Tree Village,
Freshwater, CA, and the grove around the tree
known as “Jerry,” that
has been a major part of the struggle. Earlier,
activists also hiked Jani in the well known Nanning
Creek Tree Village, headed-up by long time Forest
Defender, Amy.
Ohio
EPA will monitor TCE contamination in Dayton
Millbury
Ave. Well and Water Treatment Facility in Millbury, Massachusetts
back in service after tests show no more perchlorate
EPA
and NJDEP finalize plan for cleanup of Evor Phillips Leasing
Co. site in Old Bridge Township, NJ
Native
hunters say climate affecting herds Chief Bill Erasmus of
the Dene nation in northern Canada brought
a stark warning about the climate
crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling,
rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on.
The
11th Hour (2007)
Pipeline
bursts at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay
BP's old bugaboo, corrosion, might have struck again in the giant
Prudhoe Bay oil field. The oil company suspects corrosion
contributed to a pressurized natural gas pipeline
blowing apart on Sept. 29, BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said.No
one was hurt, though some workers were in the vicinity when the
line ruptured violently, hurling a length of pipe across the
tundra.
Judge
says EPA ignored law, failed to protect Everglades
A federal judge struck down key parts of a controversial state Everglades
cleanup law Tuesday and slapped the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency for failing to enforce the federal Clean Water Act
10/28/08
With
time short, Bush pushes EPA to relax power-plant rule
At the Bush administration's direction, the Environmental Protection
Agency is working on a new rule that would weaken pollution regulations
for power plants, allowing them to increase emissions without adding
controls
Sand
snatchers shrink Caribbean beaches
Ahh, the Caribbean. Sun, surf. But where's the sand?It is disappearing
at alarming rates as thieves feed a local construction boom.
Caribbean round grains, favored in creating smooth surfaces for
plastering and finishing, are being hauled away by the truckload
late at night. On some islands not much bigger than Manhattan,
towns and ecologically sensitive areas are now exposed to tidal
surges and rough seas.
CLIMATE
STAFF URGE EPA TO COME CLEAN BEFORE CONGRESS “Once
again, Stephen Johnson has sandbagged his own staff,” stated
PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, referring to Johnson’s
recent well-publicized reversals of findings and recommendations
by his technical and legal professionals. “It is more
than a tad hypocritical for Johnson to cite decision-making ‘transparency’ as
the reason for airing opposition memos while
he is dodging congressional subpoenas.”
Ocean
Dumping of Chemical Weapons From World War I until the 1970s,
dumping of chemical weapons at sea was the accepted practice
for disposal. Little documentation of this practice can be found
before the mid-1940s. In 1943, mustard
(H) was released into the waters of Bari harbor in Italy.
Since the end of World War II, ocean dumping has occurred in
many areas, including the Baltic Sea, around Japan, in the Adriatic
Sea near Bari, and in the coastal waters of the United States.
During the period 1945-1948, the US scuttled at sea approximately
32,000 tons of captured German chemical weapons. The British
dumped approximately 175,000 tons of chemical weapons at sea,
with 100,000 tons coming from Scotland and the balance from
the captured German stockpile. During 1955-56, the British dumped
a further 17,000 tons of captured German munitions. During 1956-1957,
the British disposed of the remainder of their stockpile of
chemical weapons, 8,000 tons of World War II vintage mustard
and phosgene munitions.1 News reports
indicate that the ocean dumping in the 1950s occurred in the
Irish Sea; some of the British dumps in the late 1940s may have
occurred in the North Sea. The Adriatic, Baltic, and Japanese
ocean dumps have provided evidence of the persistence of mustard
under water
Bush
Environmental Record Will
it get any better?
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