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  • July 2008

    • No Kidding: Bush Sewage Plant Makes Nov. Ballot

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jul 18, 08 2:38 PM CDT

      No Kidding: Bush Sewage Plant Makes Nov. Ballot

      San Francisco voters will decide in November not only who will succeed President Bush but also how they will remember him. A group calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commission has pushed through a ballot initiative to rename an area sewage plant after the outgoing president, the Chronicle reports. A White House spokesman told the LA Times the measure "doesn't dignify a response." More »

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      George W. Bush  • California  • San Francisco  • referendum  • Republican  • liberal  • sewage

  • June 2008

    • Cities' Sewage Serves as Giant Drug Test

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 23, 08 4:38 PM CDT

      Cities' Sewage Serves as Giant Drug Test

      Across the world, raw sewage is being analyzed for clues to illegal drug use. Environmental scientists are testing waste from US and European cities to gather data, which reveals everything from what's popular to which days see the greatest use of which substances. "Every sample has one illicit drug or another, regardless of location," a chemist tells the LA Times. More »

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      London  • drugs  • Las Vegas  • cocaine  • heroin  • methamphetamine  • Milan  • drug test  • sewage

    • Iowa Flood Tide Turns Noxious

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 7:48 AM CDT

      Iowa Flood Tide Turns Noxious

      Iowa floodwaters have become a toxic mess of sewage, chemicals, diesel, and animal carcasses, the AP reports, pushing some Iowans attempting to salvage possessions to update tetanus shots. "It bothers me, with everything that's in the water," said one resident. "I probably won't keep anything." Meanwhile, some Iowa towns prepared for more flooding, piling sandbags on 27 levees that could overflow along the Mississippi River. More »

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      Iowa  • Mississippi River  • levees  • Midwest floods  • sewage

  • April 2008

    • Florida Moves to Stop Piping Sewage Into the Ocean

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 23, 08 3:25 PM CDT

      Florida Moves to Stop Piping Sewage Into the Ocean

      Florida has been dumping sewage into the ocean for over 60 years, but is moving towards cleaning up its act, Reuters reports. Florida’s Senate recently passed a bill that would replace the system, which pumps 300 million gallons of partially treated waste into the Atlantic daily. Passage in the House is expected, but the state's EPA says it will take 16 years and $3 billion to close them all down. More »

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      environment  • Florida  • pollution  • sewage  • contaminated water

  • December 2007

    • Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      newser  |  New York Review of Books  |  Dec 8, 07 7:31 AM CST

      Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      Though the first deep-sea expedition took place in 1931, humans still know little about what goes on miles below sea level. What we do know is startlingly strange, Tim Flannery writes in a look at two new volumes in the New York Review of Books —and a rising tide of sewage is contaminating Earth's final "final frontier" faster than it can be studied. More »

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      fish  • ocean  • Atlantic Ocean  • Pacific Ocean  • sewage  • toxic waste

  • September 2007

    • Hudson River Gets Ready for Its Close-Up

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Sep 5, 07 7:33 PM CDT

      Hudson River Gets Ready for Its Close-Up

      The Hudson River is about to go on display. The 315 miles of New York (and New Jersey) water will be outfitted with sensors that collect data and track environmental threats, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The effort will improve understanding of human impact on ecology and will direct resource managers to healthy, responsible practices. More »

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      environment  • New York  • New Jersey  • water  • shipping  • sewage

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