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Company fined for pollution
A CONSTRUCTION firm that pumped dirty brown water from a Lindfield building site into the local stormwater system has been ordered to pay more than $15,000 in fines and legal costs.
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Organised crime linked to hazardous waste scourge
ORGANISED criminals linked to bikie gangs are among rogue dumpers who have infiltrated the waste disposal industry and are scattering hazardous waste across Sydney.
Asbestos- and lead-contaminated soil is being tipped illegally on random sites. Among new discoveries by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water is 1000 tonnes of sand containing asbestos fibre being spread across a soccer oval at Rockdale where children play.
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Busted tires from Southeast Texas roads put on erosion control duty
Packed tight in wire-wrapped bundles, some of the not-so-fresh load of old tires Texas Department of Transportation crews have plucked from the state's 79,000-mile road network are being assigned to underground erosion control duty in Southeast Texas soil.
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Firm seeks additional South Carolina wheat straw
Wheat straw is an integral, coverage-providing component in many erosion control blankets. These materials are used across numerous sectors, such as road building and housing development, for the protection of soils, establishment of vegetation, and environmental compliance. Oat straw may also be accepted.
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Green building care
A few tips for owners who wish to operate their buildings in an eco-friendly manner.
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Contaminated land capital grant funding for England cut by nearly 80%
The Contaminated Land Capital Grant Programme has been reduced by 64% compared to the 2010/11 budget with a total of just £4.35 million now available under the scheme for bids made in 2011/2012.
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Special report Sugar: why our favourite spoonful is not so sweet
Sugar cultivation affects the wider environment, altering water flow rates, increasing soil erosion and changing nutrient cycles.
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Risk of soil erosion is up on farmland
When prices for corn and soybeans surged last fall, Bill Hammitt, a farmer in the fertile hill country of western Iowa, began to see the bulldozers come out, clearing steep hillsides of trees and pastureland to make way for more acres of the state's staple crops. Now, as spring planting begins, with the chance of drenching rains, Hammitt worries that such steep ground is at high risk for soil erosion — a farmland scourge that feels as distant to most Americans as tales of the Dust Bowl and Woody Guthrie ballads.
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EPA: Mont. town cleaner but asbestos risks persist
Yet they conceded some homes already addressed by cleanup crews remain a risk and might need to be revisited. Officials suspect those areas have been re-contaminated by homeowners who inadvertently tracked in asbestos from areas not addressed by cleanup crews.
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American soldiers assisting Japan cleanup effort may encounter asbestos
In order to prevent soldiers from being exposed to hazardous materials, 1st Lt. William Wilson, an Army environmental health scientist, traveled to Ishinomaki to test the soil, air and water where U.S. personnel are living and working. According to Wilson, the army is testing primarily for “airborne things like asbestos and silica-based compounds. We will also look for radiological things, but that is only a small part.”
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EPA: Mont. town cleaner but asbestos risks persist
A preliminary study of an asbestos-plagued Montana town indicates health dangers remain in some areas already addressed in a federal cleanup that, so far, has cost more than $370 million.Tuesday's release of a long-awaited draft toxicity study for the town of Libby comes more than a decade after the Environmental Protection Agency started its cleanup operation.
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Sediment from farm runoff poses a threat to Lake Pepin
"What you can see is two distinctly-colored bodies of water meeting: the relatively clean Mississippi and the relatively dirty Minnesota, which is loaded with sediments," said Paul Labovitz, superintendent of the Mississippi National Rivera and Recreation area.
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Climate change to create a dustier Southwest
A warmer Southwest might very well mean a dustier Southwest.That’s the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California-Los Angeles that has far-reaching implications for all of Utah, where healthy range is vital to livestock, wildlife and recreation, as well as air quality and water supplies.
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Experts Warn About Climate Change Implications on Agriculture
The position statement developed by over 10,000 members of Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and American Society of Agronomy (ASA) on the implications of climate change to the current practices of soil and land management and agriculture warns of large impacts.
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USDA adds acresfor conservation
Under the program, farmers and ranchers plant grasses and trees in crop fields and along streams or rivers to reduce soil erosion.
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Erosion, floods may follow severe fire season
With seasonal rains anticipated in July, local leaders and federal Forest Service officials said they are beginning the first steps toward restoring national forestland, hoping to minimize severe erosion from mountainsides laid bare by fire.
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