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Start Oyster Creek cleanup as soon as plant closes
By Janet Tauro, Clean Water Action, NJ Board Chair - Follow on Twitter @CleanWaterNJ
The situation continues to deteriorate at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township, New Jersey.
Federal regulators are moving toward increased oversight following an unplanned, emergency shutdown this month after valves that control steam pressure malfunctioned . It was the fifth unplanned shutdown since 2013, and as time goes by for the corroding dinosaur plant, mechanical problems continue to mount. Investigators are looking for the cause, and also determining if plant owners, Exelon, are skipping
Keeping Plastic Out of the Chesapeake Bay
Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer, ( @TrillChillWill on Twitter) Last winter, environmental advocates trawled the Chesapeake Bay for trash and made some disturbing discoveries. The Bay is plagued with plastic. Bags are littered across the Bay floor, wreaking havoc on natural ecosystems for crabs and oysters alike. Similarly, plastic microbeads are being found in fish and marine mammals. Plastic bags account for a significant portion of trash and litter pollution in our neighborhood streets, communities, waterways, including rivers and streams that flow into the Chesapeake Bay. Honestly
The Power of the Chemical Industry at Work
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Yesterday Senators Vitter (R-LA) and Udall (D-NM) introduced the bill the chemical industry has wished for, one that allows Big Chem to continue to profit at the expense of our health. Upon introduction of the bill today, Cal Dooley, President and CEO for the industry trade association, urged its “swift passage”. And no wonder... the bill, an update to our nation’s main chemical policy, includes a number of gifts for the industry. A few examples: Gift #1: The bill would tie the hands of state governments. But it is the states that have actually
More Attacks on Our Water
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO - Follow Bob on Twitter (@BWendelgass) If you were following the news stories about the appearances by the Republican Presidential candidates in Iowa over the weekend, you saw a number of new attacks on EPA’s proposal to restore protection for small streams under the Clean Water Act. The attacks weren’t a surprise, but they were disappointing and wrong. The attacks were disappointing because protecting our water and our environment used to be a bi-partisan goal. The Clean Water Act passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support in 1972. Both Republicans and
The Horrors of Sulfur Dioxide
I imagine that reading about “Sulfur Dioxide” may, at first, sound about as interesting as reading through your old high school science homework, and nowhere nearly as interesting as say, a good Stephen King thriller. But what if I told you that Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) was even scarier than the books in your typical Horror section . . . and posed a far more realistic threat than vampires and haunted cars? Exposure to SO2— in even just a few minutes—can have significant impacts to human health, including aggravating asthma and other respiratory illnesses. It can even exacerbate existing heart