Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/waste/page/9/)
Everything from litter to nuclear waste.
The latest chapter in the St. Louis contamination saga is that the school athletic grounds, where kids practice football and softball, are being dug up after the discovery that they too are contaminated with DDT.
Government agencies say company owner removed arsenic, chromium, lead, selenium and other hazardous chemicals from a bankrupt facility in Keene, New Hampshire, without a permit and took the materials to his facility in Owego.
The results showed that ammonium was discharged to rivers at well above the Environmental Protection Agency’s aquatic life criteria.
New research from Michigan State University indicates that biodegradable plastics might not actually be breaking down in landfills any faster than other plastics.
Three people plead guilty to illegally removing asbestos from a former Southwest Michigan power plant. They are now facing possible prison terms after agreeing to reimburse the federal government for approximately $1 million to clean up the contaminated facility in Kalamazoo County’s Comstock Township.
A research project at the University of Michigan is looking at the impact that microplastics could have on Great Lakes wildlife.
Jeff Kart discusses a state waste report, obstacles to cleaner energy and a new Michigan hiking and bicycling trail.
Ken Winter comments on what some consider one of Michigan’s worst agricultural disasters, continuing to make headlines some 40 years later.
This week Jeff Kart discusses new Environmental Protection Agency regulations for the safe disposal of coal ash and the availability of information on Great Lakes currents.
Michigan environmentalists are disappointed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules on coal ash.