Articles in Environment News
New Environmental Data Logger
CAS Data Loggers has announced the new dataTaker DT82E environmental data logger. The DT82E is a robust, stand alone, low power data logger featuring support for SDI-12 sensors, USB memory sticks, 18 bit resolution, extensive communications capabilities and built-in display. Based on the highly successful dataTaker DT80 line of data loggers, the new DT82E provides an extremely versatile, easy to use solution for a wide range of environmental data logging projects, ... Read the full story
American Water Visionaire Project Receives Environmental Award
American Water, the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced recently that it has earned a Project Merit award in the 2009 Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) Business Achievement Awards. American Water was recognized in the Water/Wastewater category for developing a sustainable water treatment solution at the Visionaire, a luxury residential condominium in New York City’s Battery Park City. The 2009 EBJ awards will be ... Read the full story
EPA Supports Innovative Environmental Justice Initiative in Camden, N.J.
Highlighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ( EPA ) commitment to ensuring that everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, the people of Camden, N.J. will be receiving an important environmental information tool put together by the Heart of Camden, a local community-based organization, to help them better understand environmental conditions in their community. Thanks to an environmental justice grant from EPA, ... Read the full story
Green Oasis Environmental Inc Announces Letter of Intent to Purchase Two Salt Water Disposal Facilities in Montana
Green Oasis Environmental Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRNO), a Florida corporation which provides environmental remediation solutions to the billion dollar North American market for the cleaning and potential reuse of contaminated solids from slop oil and separating oil from waste water, announced today that Custom Carbon Processing Inc., (CCP); one of its subsidiaries, has signed a Letter of Intent with a Montana based Company to purchase two Salt Water Disposal facilities ... Read the full story
Abacus Accelerates Environmental and Socio-Economic Studies
Abacus Mining & Exploration Corp. (“Abacus” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: AME) is pleased to announce that it has accelerated environmental and socio-economic studies to support future Environmental Assessment and permitting of the 100 percent owned Ajax copper-gold deposit. Knight Piesold Ltd., an international group of consulting engineers and environmental scientists, has been retained to undertake comprehensive studies of aquatic and ... Read the full story
Climate Change Threatens To Wipe Out One of World’s Largest Tiger Populations
One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels caused by climate change destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund-led study published in the journal Climatic Change. Tigers are among the world’s most threatened species, with only an estimated 3,200 remaining in the wild. WWF officials said the threats facing these ... Read the full story
Swedish Wolf Hunt Protest by Conservationists
Swedish conservationists protested Sunday against the country’s first licensed wolf hunt for over four decades saying it threatened an endangered species. Tallies on Sunday suggested that at least 21 wolves had been killed of the total quota of 27 wolves set by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Hunters in the western provinces of Varmland and Dalarna were reported to have shot 18 wolves on Saturday, the opening day of the hunt. The two provinces were ... Read the full story
Chemical Pollutants Found in Marine Life
Eric Montie is a research associate specializing in marine sensory biology at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science. The lead author of a study published in the August-September 2009 issue of the journal “Environmental Pollution,” Montie spoke to Vision.org about the implications of his team’s findings with regard to chemical pollutants such as flame retardants, DDT and PCBs found in the brains of stranded marine ... Read the full story
Resource Environmental Solutions Announces 514 Restored Wetland Acres
Third Louisiana Resource, LLC (TLR) a subsidiary of Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) has completed the restoration of 514 acres in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The site, Petit Bois Mitigation Bank, will provide Bottomland Hardwood and Baldcypress restoration credits to mitigate wetland impacts in the Calcasieu Basin. Part of the mitigation bank falls within the Louisiana Coastal Conservation Boundary (Coastal Zone), therefore Petit Bois Mitigation Bank credits ... Read the full story
Cory Environmental and Von Roll INOVA award ASTUTE Technical Recruitment contract to crew-up the Riverside Resource Recovery Facility
Cory Environmental, developers of the Riverside Energy from Waste facility at Belvedere, and Von Roll INOVA who are building and operating the plant, have awarded Portsmouth based Waste to Energy specialists ASTUTE Technical Recruitment the contract to crew-up their new £350m plant, known as the Riverside Resource Recovery Facility. The plant, which is currently in the construction phase and due to begin operations in 2011, will require up to 50 staff and ASTUTE hope ... Read the full story
