water quality

KEY LARGO, Florida, November 20, 2007 (ENS) - Lee County two weeks ago approved $10 million toward purchasing land for a project to improve water quality in the Caloosahatchee River, contributing towa

• Caloosahatchee Estuary
• ecology
• ecosystem
• everglades
• Key Largo
• nature
• press releases
• restoration
• sediments
• South Florida Water Management District
• supportive efforts
• treatment cells
• water quality
• water quality improvements

WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2007 (ENS) - For the first time, emissions of a key component of acid rain and smog from power plants fell below 10 million tons in a year, the U.S.

• acid rain
• air pollutionelectric power generation
• air quality
• ecology
• ecosystems
• emission reduction
• emissions monitoring
• environment
• fine particles
• forest health changes
• Health
• pollutants
• pollution
• press releases
• smog
• water quality

WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2007 (ENS) - Billions of gallons of polluted wastewater spilled unchecked into America's waterways in 2005 as more than half the country's industrial and municipal wastewat

• act compliance
• discharge limits
• Ecology
• Environment
• freedom of information act
• leavitt
• municipal facilities
• Nature
• parallel report
• pirg
• Press releases
• Public policy
• s industrial
• toxic pollution
• Waste
• Water
• water quality

BALTIMORE, Maryland (ENS) - Residents of Gambrills, Maryland whose drinking water wells are polluted with toxic chemicals today filed a class action lawsuit against the state's largest power company C

• campaign of deception
• coal combustion resideu
• fly ash
• groundwater cleanup
• pollution
• press releases
• toxic chemicals
• water quality
• water wells
• well contamination

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (ENS) - Florida state scientists and engineers recently released a draft technical plan to protect and restore the Lake Okeechobee watershed and improve the Caloosahatchee and

• clean water
• district governing board
• ecology
• everglades
• florida water management
• government
• Lake Okeechobee reduce pollution
• liquid heart
• measurable difference
• nature
• phase plan
• press releases
• quality targets
• South Florida Water Management District
• state scientists
• water management district
• water quality
• watersheds

NEODESHA, Kansas (ENS) - The city of Neodesha is small, just 2,800 residents, but it is taking on oil giant BP in court in an effort to win hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for contamination

• big oil
• BP Petroleum
• catalytic cracking
• city revenues
• cleanup efforts
• environmental awareness
• groundwater contamination
• health problems
• lawsuit
• legal
• liquid wastes
• national superfund
• Neodesha
• oil refinery
• press releases
• pretty little town
• stormwater runoff
• water quality

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (ENS) - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ordered seven municipalities in Bucks, Chester and Montgomery counties to comply with the reporting require

• annual report
• bucks county
• control runoff
• discharge
• Government
• initial outreach
• municipalities
• Press releases
• southeast regional director
• storm water regulations
• storm water runoff
• Water
• water quality

• arsenic contamination
• baby
• birth defects
• cancer
• children
• discoloration of the skin
• environmental contaminant
• genome-wide changes
• Health
• prenatal exposure
• press release
• s center
• thailand
• toenail clippings
• umbilical cords
• water contamination
• water quality

• aquatic habitats
• ecosystem
• environment
• excess sediments
• hurricanes
• lake floor
• lake okeechobee
• largest freshwater lake
• nature
• one monitoring
• organic muck
• phosphorus
• press releases
• record drought
• storm activity
• water
• water quality
• wetland habitats