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Turning Up the Heat II: Exposing the continued failures of the manufacturers thermostat recycling program
A manufacturer-run program for collecting mercury thermostats is failing to keep the toxic heavy metal out of the trash—and the environment. Turning Up The Heat II estimates that, at most, the industry recycling program has captured 8% of mercury thermostats coming out of service in the past decade. This has resulted in the disposal of over 50 tons of mercury into the environment, which can expose people to the neurotoxin through fish consumption.
Coalition for Healthy Ports Calls for Newark Hearing and Extended Response Time
Significant Health Hazards from Increased Diesel Exhaust & Other Air Pollution Ignored by Bayonne Bridge Environmental Assessment
Coast Guard Sets Inadequate Period for Public Comment & Fails to Set Public Hearing in Newark
Clean Energy Groups Criticize State’s Extension of Rogers City Coal Plant Permit
CEN cheers legal challenge, raps MDEQ for skipping public notice and comment period and ignoring new, stricter federal emission rules
LANSING- Members of the Clean Energy Now coalition are sharply criticizing the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for renewing Wolverine Power Cooperative’s 18-month-old permit to build a coal-fired power plant in Rogers City—and strongly support the legal challenge to the wrong-headed decision filed in Ingham County Circuit Court on Monday.
Conservation Groups Ask Obama for a Suspension of Arctic Ocean Drilling
Boulder County Drains Denver Water's Moffat Water Project
Boulder, CO -- On Monday, January 7, 2013, the Boulder County commissioners unanimously rejected a proposed agreement with Denver Water to support the "Moffat Collection System Project." The project proposes to drain 18,000 acre feet of water out of the Fraser and Upper Colorado Rivers, pipe that water through Moffat Tunnel at the continental divide and down into a proposed massively expanded Gross Dam and Reservoir along South Boulder Creek in the mountains southwest of Boulder.DTE and Consumers Energy Power Plants Top List for Most Dangerous in the Country
Consumer’s JH Campbell and DTE’s Monroe Power Plant top Environmental Integrity Project List as nation’s worst polluters
LANSING– A recent report from the Environmental Integrity Project named two Michigan coal-fired power plants as some of the most toxic polluters in the United States. Consumers Energy’s JH Campbell Power Plant located in Ottawa County was recognized as one of the largest sources of carcinogenic metal emissions in the country. DTE’s Monroe Power plant was ranked number one as one of the largest sources of toxic mercury. You can view the report here.