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Green Blog: On Our Radar: BP to Tame Refinery Flares
58 am Associated Press In an accord with the federal government and environmental groups, BP will install pollution controls at its refinery in Whiting, Ind. BP agrees to spend more than $400 million to reduce noxious air pollution from a massive
Tags: los angeles, environment, Lake County Indiana, Whiting Refinery, bp, pollution
Welcome SHOAL – the fish that detects water pollution
British scientists have developed SHOAL – a robotic fish which can be programmed to go deep down into the waters to check for pollution. Developed by the University of Essex, trials of robot fish
Tags: Shoal, University of Essex, pollution of water, detect pollutants, Gijon, pollution, environmental science, technology-news
EPA proposes new rules for muddy logging roads
Originally published Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM EPA proposes new rules for muddy logging roads The Obama administration wants to change the rules applying to stormwater running off logging roads, blunting a landmark court ruling that found
Tags: logging roads, Seattle, environment, salmon, Environmental soil science, Stormwater, pollution, water pollution, Water
US reaches pollution agreement at BP Indiana plant
The government has announced a settlement requiring BP North America Inc. to spend more than $400 million to reduce pollution at an Indiana refinery. The agreement is designed to reduce harmful air pollution by more than 4,000
Tags: Washington, environment, air pollution, climate change, chemical engineering, Gas flare, bp, pollution, Economy of Alaska
East Dundee banquet hall fined seven times for noise
An East Dundee business that faced neighborhood opposition long before it even opened, has been fined seven times for playing music too loudly. Last Wednesday, Premier Banquets was found guilty in absentia of breaking the villages noise ordinance and
Tags: Jim Nagle, East Dundee, John Arnold, Chicago, Audiology, acoustics, noise, Noise regulation, noise pollution, pollution
Italy Constructing World's First Vertical Forest
Architects in Milan, Italy are taking the term concrete jungle and making it come to life by transforming the city with the world's first vertical forest . The vertical forest or Bosco Verticale will include all types of greenery like 900 trees, 5,
Tags: Milan, vertical forest, Stefano Boeri, Italy, environment, engineering, Conservation, Climatology, Environmental engineering, pollution
Clean water tops Canadians' enviro concerns
Few Canadians are losing sleep over global warming and the state of the world's rainforests, according to a public opinion survey conducted exclusively for QMI Agency. "Issues that can affect people in their day-to-day lives, like drinking water and
Tags: David Coletto, global warming, Canada, ottawa, environment, carbon finance, 19th century, climate change, opinion poll, 21st century
City Lights development east of downtown Dallas to see another delay
Some what, six , seven, 10 years later? he we are, still talking about the one-day-far-off groundbreaking on the mixed-use City Lights development filling some eight acres from Bryan to Live Oak near Good Latimer. Actually, we're not talking about it;
Tags: Matt Malouf, Dallas City Hall, lights development, Las Vegas, Soil contamination, pollution, Environmental remediation
EPA checking contamination from fracking spill
Colo.The Environmental Protection Agency is checking for pollution after a tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of fracking chemicals rolled over near Loma, spilling chemicals into a nearby creek. The Lower Valley Fire District says about 50
Tags: denver, environment, profanity, Euphemisms, Frak, Disaster Accident, pollution
Robo-fish to 'police' the oceans
In the shallow waters of Gijon harbour, in northern Spain, a large, yellow fish cuts through the waves. But this swimmer stands apart from the marine life that usually inhabits this port: there's no flesh and blood here, just carbon fibre and metal...
Tags: Gijon, Spain, environment, Ichthyology, Fisheries, Fish, pollution, Technology Internet, Shoaling and schooling, Aquatic ecology
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