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January 18, 2011
Kern County supervisors on Tuesday gave environmental health regulators their blessing to begin the six-month process involved in enforcing the Measure E ban on the land application of treated human and industrial waste. Read more
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November 11, 2010
Killing microorganisms has become a national obsession. A pair of antimicrobial compounds known as triclosan and triclocarban are lately the weapons of choice in our war of attrition against the microbial world. Both chemicals are found in an... Read more
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November 4, 2010
Theodore Roosevelt once noted that "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water." But that's what we're still doing every day. Read more
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November 4, 2010
We do it every day.
But how many of us think about what happens after we pull the toilet lever? Read more
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October 4, 2010
A federal judge in Athens, GA is about to rule on a lawsuit filed by a former EPA research scientist and two dairy farmers over fake data EPA and the University of Georgia published to support a controversial EPA regulation. The case, which has... Read more
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October 11, 2010
The system Columbus water officials use to measure atrazine levels begins with an old, battered plastic bottle wrapped in duct tape and tied to a rope. Read more
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October 7, 2010
Every year nearly 30 billion gallons of wastewater filled with untreated sewage and pollution overflows into New York City's waterways. Last week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Environmental Protection unveiled a proposal... Read more
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September 13, 2010
People walking their dogs are encouraged to collect the feces, place them into the supplied biodegradable doggie bags and drop them into the digester feeding tube. They then turn a hand crank to stir the mixture of excrement and anaerobic bacteria... Read more
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September 13, 2010
Increasing numbers of consumers are turning to organic methods to maintain their lawns, according to a 2008 survey by the National Gardening Association. Read more
Scientific Study
August 30, 2010
New research shows that the drugs and contaminants that often contaminant sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can be taken up by the plants grown in fertilized fields and gardens. Also called 'biosolids' these fertilizers are regularly... Read more
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