Category Archives: Pollution

Maps of Hazardous Waste Sites, Pollution, Wildfire in USA

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

How safe from hazardous waste spills, pollution, and wildfire are you? As  energy shortages, poverty, and social unrest force increasing localization, with less energy and resources to maintain or clean up hazardous wastes, fight wildfires, go after polluters, and so … Continue reading →

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Trashing the Oceans. An armada of plastic rides the waves

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

Hayden, Thomas. 4 Nov 2002. Trashing the Oceans. An armada of plastic rides the waves, and sea creatures are suffering. U.S. News & World Report. At Taco Bell on Main Street in Ventura, Calif., you can take out the chalupa … Continue reading →

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The Largest Oil Spill on Earth: Ocean Plastic

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

Friedemann, Alice.  15 Feb 2003. The largest oil spill on Earth: Ocean Plastic.  EnergyResources. I had a disturbing experience at Cape Canaveral National Sea Shore last month.  I drove to the north end of the park, and walked south along … Continue reading →

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Coal Ash is an unregulated toxic waste

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

Coal ash is what remains after coal is burned, and has arsenic, mercury, lead, selenium, chromium, and other heavy metals. This waste is 100 times more radioactive than nuclear waste from a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of … Continue reading →

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Carcinogenic Flame retardants, PBDE’s, are in your furniture, food, soda

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Latest news Must read series of articles at the Chicago Tribune: June 2012: These ongoing articles at the Chicago Tribune have given Governor Jerry Brown of California the courage to ask legislators to reduce or eliminate flame retardant requirements.  That’s … Continue reading →

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Chemicals

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

    Methylmercury Toxic vineyards? California vineyards may be raising the environmental levels of methylmercury, a known cause of developmental defects. A team at Stanford University in California found that the sulphur in anti-fungus sprays turns into sulphates, which may … Continue reading →

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Oilsands (also known as tarsands)

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

Tar sand excavation images: trucks landscape tarsand refineries overhead video: Beautiful Destruction – Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs The problems with oilsands are: 1)   In the tar sands open-pit mines, to produce one barrel of synthetic crude it takes 2 … Continue reading →

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