In a long-anticipated move, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released guidelines for the use of diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing fluid. The guidelines bring the agency into compliance with the Energy Policy Act of ...
Tags: Diesel Fuel, Fracking Fluid
The Environmental Protection Agency was justified in intervening to examine possible risks of gas drilling to Texas drinking water, the agency's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. But environmentalists say the report raises fresh ...
Tags: The Environmental Protection Agency, gas drilling, Texas, drinking water
Groundwater and surface water samples taken near fracking operations in Colorado contained chemicals that can disrupt male and female hormones, researchers say. These chemicals, which are used in the fracking process, also were present in ...
Tags: groundwater, surface water, fracking operations, hormones, health
Ford India sold 12,050 vehicles in combined domestic wholesales and export sales in November, up 19 percent over the same month last year. Ford India's domestic sales rose to 7,909 units in November, up 33 percent from 5,944 units a year ...
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
This comprehensive summary of micropollutants in raw water used for drinking water production discusses drinking water treatment processes and their contribution to micropollutant removal, and considers biological processes and ...
NSF International, a global independent public health organization that writes standards, and tests and certifies products for the commercial and consumer goods, health sciences, food and water industries, will sponsor the American National ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Pentair Ltd. announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting its Commitment to Action to address the safe water needs for the people in Kibera, an impoverished settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. In doing so, it will help reduce ...
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Coca-Cola has partnered with DEKA R&D, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), McCann Health, NRG Energy, Qualcomm Technologies and UPS to supply water purification kiosk EKOCENTER to 20 nations by the end of 2015. Coca-Cola stated ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Safe Drinking Water
Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, announces its new strategic agenda and updates its long-term financial targets. During the last four years, Ahlstrom has undergone a major transformation as a company ...
Tags: fiber-based materials, Textile
Reed Elsevier has announced the winners of the 2013 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, which supports innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation. The US$50,000 first and US$25,000 second prize ...
Members of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) stand ready to assist people living and working in areas affected by the California Wildfires, to make sure they have access to clean, fresh, safe and reliable drinking water. ...
Desalination has become an essential tool to enable effective management of water strategies in the 21st century. To celebrate 50 years of Filtration+Separation we take a look back at the last 50 years of desalination by discussing major ...
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The largest drinking water purification plant in Europe to feature GE’s ZeeWeed 500 advanced water treatment technology is under construction in Ravenna, Italy. Located on the east coast of Italy, close to the Adriatic Sea and part ...
A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial cyberthreat sharing bill that's moving toward a House vote, critics said. The House ...
Tags: CISPA, Surveillance Bill