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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic

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What’s Up With Water – April 16, 2018

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Circulating water in the Atlantic serves as a kind of a heat exchange for the planet. Warm, salty water moves north from the tropics via the Gulf Stream off the U.S. East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south. It heats the oceans waters so there is less cool water to sink and motivate the cycle.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

The accident at TMI involved a broken valve, the loss of cooling water to the white-hot operating reactor, and then a series of cascading failures of gauges, pipes, and operators. By then the reactor had finally begun to cool and the end was in sight. Jimmy Carter was then, and is, a real class act.

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CBF Blog: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Partners Create Unique Watershed Restoration Plan For Halfmoon Creek In Centre County

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. It also involved compiling historical water quality monitoring data and conducting current water quality assessments." Robert Casey (D-Pa.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.)

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Justice Breyer’s Nuanced Voice for the Environment

Legal Planet

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement.

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Justice Breyer’s Nuanced Voice in Environmental Law

Legal Planet

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement.

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Federal Water Tap, February 21: EPA Watchdog Will Investigate Agency’s Drinking Water Lead Response in Michigan City

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An EPA watchdog will investigate the agency’s response to drinking water lead contamination in Benton Harbor, Michigan. An EPA local government advisory committee submits recommendations to the agency for carrying out infrastructure investments. Financial Assessments for Clean Water Act Compliance. The Rundown.