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Discovering ThePotential Well Water Contaminants and Their Impacts

The Environmental Blog

These waste products can cause a number of health issues. You should note that the nitrates and nitrites in fertilizers can cause serious health problems in infants. Organic Contaminants. There is an array of organic chemicals found in most household products. Radionuclides.

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Researchers find nuclear fingerprints in sea turtle shells

Grist

He added that contamination amounts were so small that it’s doubtful the animals experienced health impacts. “If PCBs are synthetic organic chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and can be harmful to human health. Between 1946 and 1958, the Marshall Islands were the site of 67 U.S.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables. “We

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New York’s Coronavirus Threat Pushes Grid Operators to Work and Live in Isolation

GreenTechMedia

NYISO is in regular contact with the state’s utilities and power plant operators to check in on their status, and has been advising other U.S. independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organization (RTOs) in weekly conference calls and daily email exchanges, Dewey said.

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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil

Grist

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

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What Utilities Can Learn, About Decision Making, From The Police.

Varuna

Push decision-making hampered the ability of the technicians at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima to address conditions that were different from what the manuals, and instructions, presented. <a Enabling other resources on the network to learn and adjust as necessary.

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Examining the Limits of ‘Energy Return on Investment’

GreenTechMedia

Society’s hierarchy of energetic needs can be represented graphically as a pyramid , with extracting and refining energy at the bottom and delivering education, health care, arts and so on at the top. Even nuclear power appeared to offer marginal potential to support society, with an EROI of 14:1.