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Status of biogas technologies and policies in South Korea
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012To date, there are about 49 biogas plants in South Korea that are generally recognized as economically and technically unsuccessful due to lack of knowhow, deficient technologies and policies. There is a need to analyze the status of biogas technology and policy in South Korea from the [...]
EPA and Department of Commerce Announce New Effort to Boost U.S. Jobs, Environmental Tech Exports
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Department of Commerce Secretary John E. Bryson announced efforts to launch an environmental technology initiative to help create American jobs in the growing environmental industry. Announced at EPA’s first Technology Market Summit, this initiative, [...]
Agricultural Bacteria: Blowing in the Wind
Thursday, May 10th, 2012It was all too evident during the Dust Bowl what a disastrous impact wind can have on dry, unprotected topsoil. Now a new study has uncovered a less obvious, but still troubling, effect of wind: Not only can it carry away soil particles, but also the beneficial microbes that help build [...]
EPA to Work with Drinking Water Systems to Monitor Unregulated Contaminants
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published a list of 28 chemicals and two viruses that approximately 6,000 public water systems will monitor from 2013 to 2015 as part of the agency’s unregulated contaminant monitoring program, which collects data for contaminants suspected to be present in drinking water, but that [...]
Beyond Rhetoric at Rio+20 with the “Compendium of Commitments”
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012As world leaders prepare to converge on Rio in June for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), civil society groups around the world are making demands of their leaders. In India, a broad coalition of environment and development NGOs are decrying state-sanctioned violence during hearings for major projects. [...]
BPEX: Water-saving advice for pig farms
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012Practical steps to save water and money on pig farms have been published by BPEX. There are a number of short-term and long-term measures producers can take to conserve water in this latest Knowledge Transfer (KT) Bulletin.
BPEX environment project manager Anna Davis said: “Both drought and flooding [...]
FDA proposes phasing out antibiotics in farm animals
Monday, April 23rd, 2012WASHINGTON — The bacon you had for breakfast is at the center of a 35-year debate over antibiotics.
That’s because the same life-saving drugs that are prescribed to treat everything from ear infections to tuberculosis in humans also are used to fatten the animals that supply the chicken, beef and pork we eat [...]
EPA publishes national U.S. greenhouse gas inventory
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 17th annual U.S. greenhouse gas inventory. The final report shows overall emissions in 2010 increased by 3.2 percent from the previous year. The trend is attributed to an increase in energy consumption across all economic sectors, due to [...]
A new deal to rid Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia of obsolete pesticides
Thursday, April 12th, 2012Twelve countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia will start working with the European Union (EU) and FAO to manage their vast stocks of obsolete pesticides in a partnership that was launched at FAO’s headquarters in Rome.
It is estimated that around 200 000 tons of obsolete pesticides, nearly half [...]
FDA Introduces Voluntary Initiative on Antimicrobials
Thursday, April 12th, 2012Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria or other microbes develop the ability to resist the effects of a drug. Once this occurs, a drug may no longer be as effective in treating various illnesses or infections. Because it is well established that all uses of antimicrobial drugs, in both humans and animals, [...]