Hazardous Waste Collection

FLASHBACK: Gore Made $500K from Toxic Zinc Mines

"The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own. But we must take care to let them flow back out as pure as they came, not poison and waste them without thought for the future." --Al...

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Prime minister's questions

Minute-by-minute coverage of PMQs 11.54am: It's going to be a Labour PMQs today. Kerry McCarthy, the Labour whip, has got a colour-coded post on her blog showing which backbenchers will be asking questions today and they're...

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Nuclear Power Regains Support

Washington Post: Even Environmental Groups See It as "Part of the Answer" to Greater Threats from Climate Change The cooling towers of Three Mile Island's Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant pour steam into the sky in Middletown, Pa.,...

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The Clean Energy Act of 2009: A Missed Opportunity for Real Nuclear Energy Policy Reform

by Jack Spencer and Nicolas Loris Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jim Webb (D-VA) recently introduced their bipartisan Clean Energy Act of 2009 (CEA 2009), which aims to create a business and regulatory environment to...

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Sewers at Capacity, Waste Poisons Waterways

By CHARLES DUHIGG, The New York Times It was drizzling lightly in late October when the midnight shift started at the Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant, where much of Brooklyn's sewage is treated. But despite those...

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From Stockholm to Copenhagen – an arduous route to tackle environmental issues

From Stockholm to Copenhagen – an arduous route to tackle environmental issues Malta Independent Online In the late sixties it had become clear that most of the world's seas and oceans were being exploited by over-fishing. Soil...

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Govt plans Rs 850m NPWC for safe storage of radioactive waste

ISLAMABAD: The government has planned a project, ‘Nuclear Power Waste Chashma’ (NPWC) of Rs 850 million to secure pre-disposal storage of hazardous radioactive wastes that are generated by Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-1...

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We need more nuclear plants to combat global warming

If we have so many diplomatic problems with the Middle East, why do we send them millions of dollars a day by purchasing their oil? Everyone across the political spectrum agrees that we have to reduce our dependence on foreign...

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Similar counties, dissimilar stimulus

Nuclear site cleanup creates boom in Wash.; Elkhart wonders where the jobs are / Dept. of EnergyWorkers finish expanding an opening into room 146 of a laboratory at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington state....

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New Dawn for Nuclear Power

Coming climate change legislation and new technology are leading to a resurgence of nuclear power in America. By Jim Ostroff, Associate Editor, The Kiplinger Letter A years-long wait for a ramping up of nuclear power is about...

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