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CE 326 - Principles of Environmental Engineering - Current Environmental News

Solid Waste, Hazardous Wastes, and Biosolids

• Burning manure pile in Nebraska goes out, February 23, 2005
• Secret Weapon Against the Smell of Sludge? Sludge February 21, 2005
• Plant to make clean power from turkey droppings (12/15/04)
• Report: Ames not main cause of dioxins(6/28/01)

Water and Wastewater

• UN warned about islands sewage problems (3-30-03)
• Farmed Salmon loaded with chemicals (1/8/04)
• Fish Killer Microbe May Not Be Toxic, After All (8/6/02)
• Good Bacteria seen as potential cavity fighters (6/28/02)
• Ascariasis (6/17/02)
• Giardiasis (6/13/02)
• Dog waste poses threat to water (6/7/02)
• Scientists probe the life in rocks (2-16-02)
• Cities Monitor Sewage Flow From Hagerstown (2/12/02)
• Ammonia Pipeline Break Kills Fish, Wildlife (12/22/01)
• Ames’ increasing water usage prompts city to encourage water conservation (8/27/01)
• CDC warns parents about pool disease dangers (7/6/01)
• Boone’s Water Pollution Control Plant Receives National Award
• Digester Gas Energizes New Hampshire Wastewater Plant (12/11/2000)

 Soil, Solid Waste, and Agriculture

• GOP Considers Eliminating MTBE Provision 11-24-03
• EPA OKs Safety of Many Pesticides (6/11/02) 
• EPA: Old computers no longer junk (6/3/02)
• EPA mulls e_waste changes (5/30/02)
• EPA: U.S. Toxic Chemical Releases Fall 9 Percent (5/23/02)
• Resistant Bacteria Common in Grocery Store Chicken (5/21/02)
• Biodiesel fans tout solution to pollution (3/4/02)
• Drug Resistant Bacteria in Pigs Spread to People (2/7/02)
• Report recommends air-quality standards for concentrated animal feeding operations (2/8/02)
• Men Carrying Pollutant Have More Boys - Study (1/30/02)
• Study Details Ways to Reduce Risks to Water Resources from Waste Lagoons and Basins (1/30/02)
• Farmers, Environment Could Benefit from New Fertilizer (1/22/02)
• Reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink (1/17/02)
• The Ames Strain (11/05/01)
• Evidence of D.C. Toxins Unheeded (7/8/01)
• U.S. to sign global ban on 'dirty dozen' toxins (4/19/01)

Air

• Air around indoor pools may harm kids lung cells (12/15/04)
• The Surface Record: ‘Global Mean Temperature’ and how it is determined at surface level
• Scientists use creativity to fight global warming (1-20-04)
• Bush administration to pursue clean air suits (1/9/04)
• Global warming threatens mass extinctions (1/8/04)
• U.S. global warming emissions in biggest decade drop (12/24/02)
• California takes on air pollution (7/22/02)
• "The Surface Record: ‘‘Global Mean Temperature’’ and how it is determined at surface level"
• Starving Bacteria of Iron Helps Wipe Out Body Odor (5/21/02)
• NASA improves knowledge of ozone depletion
• UK Experts Say Glacier Fall Not Climate Related (5/10/02)
• Most Americans Breathe Polluted Air (5/1/02)
• Tiny Air Pollutants May Get Into the Blood (2/20/02)
• Adirondack Lakes Seen Recovering From Past Acid Rain (2/13/02)
• It's not another ice age, but at least it's cooler (1/24/02)
• Global warming could prompt return of old refrigerant (9/10/01)
• Annual Costs to Operate Typical Office Equipment
• Report: Ames not main cause of dioxins(6/28/01)
• Global Warming: The Anatomy of a Debate
• The Sky Isn't Falling, and the Ocean Isn't Rising