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Nutrient laden wastewater has fueled toxic algal blooms which have subsequently clogged freshwater systems worldwide, including Florida's estuaries, the Mississippi River Basin, lakes in China, and everywhere in-between. When fertilizer-laden runoff or nutrient-rich wastewater effluent is discharged into rivers it provides a...

A Cornell-Environmental Defense Fund research team equipped a Google Street View car with a high-precision methane sensor and found methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants to be 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry's self-reported estimate. Methane emissions produced by...

According to a recent CCN Business report, UPS has announced that it will be purchasing 170 million gallons of renewable natural gas produced from natural processes that occur as waste breaks down on dairy farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plants....

Rising sea levels pose a serious threat to coastal ecosystems and communities living in coastal areas all around the world. Yet, in order to accurately project future sea level rise (SLR) one first needs to accurately project the contribution of...

187 Countries Unite to Stop the Flow of Non-recyclable Plastic Waste into Developing Nations Following concerns poor villages in developing countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are rapidly turning into dumpsites, the United Nations recently announced almost all countries...

With climate change now a glaring reality, causing impacts such as rising temperatures, an increase in wild fires, widespread droughts, flooding and other severe weather events that not only disrupt our daily lives, but are also responsible for many fatalities,...

As part of his report back to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at the first Congressional Hearing on Pipeline Safety Act Reauthorization for 2019 held earlier this year, Skip Elliott, an administrator with the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety...

An emission trading program --or cap-and-trade program -- is a system devised to provide economic incentives for companies to reduce the amount of pollutants they release into the atmosphere. But before an emission trading program can be implemented, a national...

Humans the world over generate a a staggering amount of trash. Nearly everything we purchase is wrapped in packaging. Usually multiple layers consisting of paper, plastic, cardboard and/or glass. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American...