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Environmental workers spill a million gallons of waste into Colorado river
A team of US regulators investigating contamination at a Colorado goldmine accidentally released a million gallons (3.8 million liters) of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday.
The waste water had been held behind a barrier near the abandoned Gold King Mine, but was accidentally emptied into Cement creek, which flows into the Animas river in San Juan county, said an EPA spokesman, Rich Mylott.
Several workers were in the EPA crew that was using heavy equipment to pump and treat the waste water when the breach occurred, Mylott said, adding that none had been injured.
The City of Dearborn Journal interviews Charlie Usher, President of Marine Pollution Control, about past and present initiatives to help clean up the Rouge River.
The City of Dearborn Journal and The University Of Michigan, Environmental Interpretive Center host the Young Naturalists Program. The Young Naturalists Program is a program where Children are exposed to Science Oriented sessions on the Environment. In Dearborn Journal #318, topics include the ongoing efforts to clean up the Rouge River by volunteer organizations, such as the Friends of the Rouge as well as the role the US Coast Guard plays in cleanup efforts. The Dearborn Journal also interviews industry leaders like Charlie Usher from Marine Pollution Control Corporation about industry’s role in the cleanup and rehabilitation of this vital waterway.
Synthetic Coral Could Remove Toxic Heavy Metals From The Ocean
July 23, 2015A new material that mimics coral could help remove toxic heavy metals like mercury from the ocean, according to a new study published in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. The researchers, from Anhui Jianzhu University in China, say their new material could provide inspiration for other approaches to removing pollutants.
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Mystery Oil Sheen Discovered Off California Coast
July 30, 2015, 11:48 AM ETAn oil sheen showed up in the Pacific Ocean, leaving officials baffled as to what caused it.
The Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded to strong smells of gas just before 10 a.m. yesterday at Goleta Beach and quickly found a large sheen of what appeared to be oil in the ocean, captain David Zaniboni said.
Two kayakers came in from the water with their legs and kayaks covered in the film soon after the crews arrived.
The Coast Guard flew over the sheen in a helicopter yesterday afternoon and determined it covered two square miles, Coast Guard spokeswoman Andrea Anderson told ABC News today.
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Nexen Energy oil spill in Alberta prompts environmental alarm over pipelines
07/22/2015
ANZAC, Alta. — Nexen Energy said Wednesday it can narrow down when a pipeline ruptured in northern Alberta to a two-week period, something that one environmental group said is cause for alarm.
Ron Bailey, the company's senior vice-president of Canadian operations, said officials still don't know precisely when the pipeline began leaking after a five-million-litre spill was discovered last Wednesday in Anzac, about 35 kilometres southeast of Fort McMurray.
But Bailey said the company believes the leak began some time between June 29, when crews finished a cleaning, and July 15, when a contractor discovered it near Nexen Energy's Long Lake oilsands facility.
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