NPR (blog) First, remember that for thousands of years, before the invention of synthetic fertilizer in 1913, many farmers utilized their decomposed sewage, sometimes called "night soil," to replenish the soil with nutrients lost in farming. The Chinese were ... and more »
Wheeling Intelligencer After treating the frack water , GreenHunter plans to ship brine water - the vast majority of its volume, according to Jack - by truck back to well sites for re-use. Solid waste would go to a landfill outside Parkersburg, with liquid waste taken by ... and more »
Valley News Roach pulls the first from the June 1874 Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal as Dr. Robert Battey describes his great innovation in breaking up impacted masses in the colon, namely, injecting up to three gallons of water into the rectum: “So great was ...
Tribune-Review State regulators, industry supporters and some scientists say that treating shale waste properly eliminates big health risk. But there are critics who argue that bringing large quantities of even low-level radioactive particles to the surface can lead ...
Yakima Herald-Republic Activists hell-bent on the destruction of dairy farms filed a lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, and demanded that dairy farms be treated as waste dumps. The claim has been revised to seek monitoring, plus an unspecified amount ... and more »
Philly.com Drums of waste at the Ciba-Geigy chemical plant in Toms River in 2004, when a $91 million cleanup began. (SARAH J. GLOVER) ... It can take a long time for cancer to develop, so re-creating a person's exposure - from drinking water to pesticides - is ...
Golden Gate Xpress According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, bottled water is the fastest growing beverage in sales in the United States and Americans spend billions of dollars each year to buy it. San Francisco businesses ... Where the water came from, how ... and more »
Centre Daily Times When Daniel Wilson learned earlier this year that the State of California wants to bulldoze his family's pear orchard to build a giant Sacramento River water diversion, he and his brother were making a major new investment in the crop. Located near ... and more »
Greener Ideal The process focuses on extracting and treating soils to remove pollution and other issues. Soil remediation is a responsible decision that can help to improve the health of employees and neighbors. ... This led to many companies burying hazardous waste ...
