Displaying 1 - 12 of 12 resources in Groundwater Protection and Articles:
1. Biodiversity and Your Water Supply
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We depend on the Earth's biodiversity for clean, available freshwater. Throughout time, the planet's healthy ecosystems and diversity of life have ensured the flow of ...
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2. Chattanooga on a Roll From America's Dirtiest City to Its Greenest
By 1969, just before the first Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency had bestowed on Chattanooga a special award for being "the dirtiest city in ...
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3. Despite What You May Suspect, The Danger From Radon Is Real
The federal EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) announced in mid September 1988 that 1/3 of all U.S. homes may contain dangerous levels of radon, a ...
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4. Drilling To The Ends Of The Earth: The Case Against New Fossil Fuel Exploration
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The quest for oil has defined the twentieth century. Many still view oil as black gold, a resource to be exploited as economically and expediently ...
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5. Excrement Happens -- Part 2
We are retelling the history of the management of human excrement as originally narrated by Abby A. Rockefeller. ...
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6. Green Living Center: Landscaping and Gardening Your Home--The Basics
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Healthy landscaping and gardening starts with healthy soil. The quality of the soil directly affects the health of the plant and animal life it supports. ...
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7. Green Living Center: Radon
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Radon gas is released during the natural breakdown of radium in soil, rock and groundwater. In certain areas of the country, this gas enters into ...
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8. Pesticides Pose Greater Threat To U.S. Drinking Water Supplies Than Factories And Toxic Dumps
Environmental experts say the contamination of underground water supplies by runoff from farm chemicals is now happening across broad areas of the nation's breadbasket and ...
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9. What We Must Do -- 4: A License To Pollute
Our series, What We Must Do, is describing the root causes of the toxics problem in America. The waste haulers serve as frontline soldiers, disposing ...
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10. What We Must Do -- Part 10 No Dumping Allowed
For the most part, our readers are not legislative lobbyists or armchair environmentalists; they are grass roots activists struggling in the trenches to protect their ...
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11. What We Must Do -- Part 7; Toxics In Your Drinking Water: When Did People Know It Was Bad
When someone in industry claims that they contributed to the creation of a Superfund site by dumping toxics into the ground, but did it out ...
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12. What We Must Do -- Part 8 What The Poisoners Knew In 1961
We first looked at the waste industry which buries poisonous chemicals in the ground for the producers of those chemicals; now we are looking at ...
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