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Follow ENB on TwitterGreenandMore.com today announced top ways to go green this Spring. Spring arrives March 20, just a month away, so it’s the perfect time to rethink lawn care, gardening, and outdoor living products that are popular backyard spring cleaning activities and purchases as the weather warms up.
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.
Twenty-four students and two teachers from a Country Club Hills school were taken to five area hospitals Friday after a chemical spill, but most were treated and released, officials said.
See also a related commentary from the Healthy Schools Campaign.
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As water towers sprout on the suburban landscape to keep up with growth, residents have tried everything from e-mail protests to lawsuits to keep the behemoths out of eyeshot of their homes — mostly without success.
Bob Wargaski thinks he’s found a way.
Wargaski plans to open a pig farm on his 5 acres in unincorporated Wauconda Township, a move that could block construction of a sky-high water tower the Village of Island Lake wants to erect across the street.
Read the full story in the New York Times.
Scientists are building the first worldwide portrait of human impacts on the oceans, which have left just 4 percent of the seas pristine.
Read the full story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Nearly 100 small communities in Minnesota are illegally releasing raw sewage into lakes, rivers, ditches and field drains, says a new state report.
Read the full story in the Washington Post.
Under pressure from agriculture industry lobbyists and lawmakers from agricultural states, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to drop requirements that factory farms report their emissions of toxic gases, despite findings by the agency’s scientists that the gases pose a health threat.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched its new web multimedia portal www.epa.gov/multimedia. The multimedia portal is EPA’s one-stop location for environmental video, audio/podcasts, and photography.
The portal also includes interactive features such as “Ask EPA” and the Deputy Administrator’s blog, “Flow of the River”. Another feature called “EPA in Action” goes behind-the-scenes; following the diverse jobs performed by the EPA workforce and examines some of the most pressing environmental issues facing our nation today.
Viewing video is integrated into the site using flash player, while photos of events and EPA work will be posted in a series of online galleries. Users may also subscribe to several podcast series or select from a number of individual podcasts featuring EPA experts and senior officials.
This new multimedia portal is an important resource for the public, journalists, academia, local governments and the environmental community. The portal will help increase awareness of important news items through an intuitive, media-rich focus, rather than through traditional electronic print.
