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Earth911 Podcast: Christy Briggs Scores a Sustainability Touchdown at Seattle’s Lumen Field

Earth 911

Since it started measuring waste diversion from landfills in 2006, when it recycled only 4.6%. The post Earth911 Podcast: Christy Briggs Scores a Sustainability Touchdown at Seattle’s Lumen Field appeared first on Earth911.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

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.

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Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well

PA Environment Daily

Tatonka Oil was also issued notices of violation in March 2020 and again in December 2022 for failing to submit annual production and waste generation and well integrity reports for multiple wells. No production and waste generation report was submitted to DEP since 2006 and no well integrity report had ever been submitted to DEP.

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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

Speakers will be Steven Schmitz, Managing Partner at Green Rock Energy Partners , which owns South Hills Landfill, and Tom Spears, Capitol Area Gas Operations Manager for WM, formerly Waste Management, which owns a number of landfills with renewable natural gas energy projects in the state.

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Second District Affirms Judgment Upholding Water Code CEQA Exemption, Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt To Extend CEQA Review And Findings Requirements To Regional Water Board’s Approval Of Waste Discharge Permits

CEQA Developments

The RWQCB had relied on Water Code section 13389 for determining its issuance of the waste discharge permits was exempt from CEQA, but petitioner argued the exemption applies only to that portion of CEQA addressing environmental impact reports (chapter 3), and not the portion addressing the underlying policy of CEQA (chapter 1).

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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The Stream, February 9, 2022: Texas’ Wastewater Problem

Circle of Blue

Permian Basin oil and gas developments are among the state’s biggest industrial consumers of fresh water, and largest disposers of waste water. Without waste pickup and recycling programs, garbage and plastic in the community typically ends up being incinerated or dropped off at a dump. The annual $1.89 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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