May 25, 2011 1 Comment
You might start seeing this “SolarBee” floating in the harbor soon. Blue Water Baltimore, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper and KCI Technologies are partnering up on a pilot project to study the aeration and mixing in the waters of Baltimore’s harbor. The ...
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Read More »May 2, 2011 Comments Off on Supreme Court: No right to runoff in modern-day water war
BILLINGS, Mont. — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Wyoming farmers are not taking too much water from a river system they share with neighboring Montana. The high court turned away Montana’s complaint that Wyoming was violating a 1950 ...
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Read More »April 22, 2011 1 Comment
CANTON, Pa. — Workers stopped the flow of liquid and natural gas from a well that spilled chemical-laced water for two days and were to start procedures to seal the well Friday, company officials said. Chesapeake Energy Corp., which was ...
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Read More »April 7, 2011 Comments Off on Pa. seeks more tests for drilling pollution
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Prodded by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Pennsylvania said it is expanding the scope of water tests to screen for radioactive pollutants and other contaminants from the state’s booming natural gas drilling industry. The state Department of ...
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Read More »March 9, 2011 2 Comments
HINKLEY, Calif. — At the end of “Erin Brockovich,” a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she’s handed her portion of a historic $333 million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that ...
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Read More »November 12, 2010 Comments Off on UMBC to study development effect on water quality
BALTIMORE — Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County say they will study how development affects water quality and supply with the help of a federal grant. UMBC is one of eight institutions receiving a total of $5 million ...
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