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From the John Birch Society to the Tea Party
Sean Wilentz’s New Yorker article, “Confounding Fathers,” is the most thorough and precise piece on the Tea Party movement I have encountered. It explains how the movement’s ideas are not original but rather a regurgitation of crazy conspiracy theories p...
Sewage Treatment Plant
Sewage Treatment plant is basically characterized as below system based on usage of Oxygen / Air in Secondary Treatment Stage (Biological Decomposition of organic matter).
Waters that are used for drinking, manufacturing, farming, and other purpo...
World Health Organization Shows Safety of Atrazine with New Standard
A recently released World Health Organization (WHO) document has recommended a drinking water standard of 100 parts per billion, up from the previous WHO standard of two parts per billion. The atrazine drinking water standard enforced by the U.S. Environm...
Giving Back to the Environment
120 years ago or so, the industrial revolution was taking off. All sorts of machines were being invented, powered by coal, electricity, gas, you name it. People were being blessed with greater ease in manufacturing, more readily available necessities, sa...
EPA to Convene Scientific Advisory Panel on Atrazine
In light of the upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel's reevaluation of atrazine, The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) reemphasizes the safety and importance of the herbicide in a new commentary:
"For four days...
Maximize the Green Efficiency of Your Multi-site Technology Deployments through Truck Rolls
"According to the [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)], light trucks account for 62% of greenhouse gas emissions," said Dan Murray, VP at Kentrox, in a recent Telephony Online article series by journalist Carol Wilson. "If a large wireless provider wit...
The Benefits of Landfill Gas Recovery
When a municipality has finished with a landfill, they typically bury it. The organic matter in the landfill decomposes and releases gases consisting of methane and other chemical compounds. This gas, known as landfill gas, can be captured and recovered...
Science and Health Scientist Addresses Cancer Concerns Related to Atrazine
Elizabeth Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) posted a great entry on ACSH's Health Facts and Fears blog on the growing attempts by activist groups to convince the EPA to ban atrazine due to cancer claims and other healt...
JASBR LLC, has partnered with CExchange, an online service that trades in old and unwanted consumer
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY - January 4, 2010 JASBR LLC, has partnered with CExchange, an online service that trades in old and unwanted consumer electronic products in return for cash. Devices received by the Addison, Texas-based operations are either refu...
Buying Guide - Understanding Energy Efficient Ratings
This easy to read guide may help you to understand how the instruments are classified as to achieve efficiency, which means that assessment, and what you're looking for while shopping for new hardware.
Energy Star label is the government's seal of appr...
Go Greener when Buying Blu-ray Players
Earth Day is just around the corner, April 22. It is nice to have a special day to focus our attention on how we can improve our behavior and make the world a little greener. One way we can accomplished this without interfering with our day to day routine...
EPA Climate Leaders Q&A.
Andrew Aulisi, Director, Climate Leaders Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Andrew Aulisi is director of EPA's Climate Leaders Program, an association of 200 large commercial and industrial companies that work with EPA to develop standardize...
The Benefits Of Your Electronic Recycling
Do you have some unused or old digital products? Do you want to know what to do with them? For household electronic, you process them in a couple of ways. Does your company store old and used electronic equipment? These items should not be disposed of in ...
Dealing With Asbestos
Asbestos is a problem in homes that a lot of people have heard about, but few understand. It is a mineral fiber capable of standing up to intense temperatures, added to a variety of products before people realized it was dangerous. It is now considered to...
Overuse Of Pesticides
The overuse of pesticides and other chemicals are cause for great concern. Like no other time in history, our food chain is full of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, fumigants and fertilizers laced with heavy metals, all of which are toxic...