When President Trump decided to repeal the Obama Era Clean Air Act, and enacted his Affordable Clean Air Energy Rule he allowed states to determine their own regulations on standards for things like emissions pollution. For neighborhoods around coal plants that is important because if the state you live in doesn’t create strict regulations, you [...]
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3 Graphs to Help You Understand Energy in Ohio
Between renewable, non-renewable and a plethora of other energy variants, sometimes it is easy to get mixed up in what "energy in Ohio" actually means. Because of that, I created these three graphs to give a quick snapshot of energy in the state. Coal still plays a big part Long thought dying and surpassed by [...]
Coal out, solar in
One of the worst contributors to air pollution are coal-fired power plants. In 2015 coal produced 81.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This puts Ohio fourth highest producing CO2 emissions in the country. Fortunately, the state is stripping away its coal power plants and finding alternative [...]
What is a Red Tide?
In the spring of this year, my family planned a trip to one of my late grandfather’s favorite vacation spots in Florida to celebrate his life. In the summer months, something began popping up over and over again in the news: red tide. Two weeks before our trip, we, along with many other families and [...]
Sustainability in Fashion
There's a question to be asked when it comes to the environment's role in fashion: can fashion be sustainable? Believe it or not, sustainable clothing is easier to find than someone might think. From using different dyes to a creating a greater carbon footprint through manufacturing, laboring and shipping, the fashion industry is constantly involved [...]
The EPA’s top 5 most common hazardous substances
Superfund sites are normally fuming with hazardous substances, many of these toxic to humans and the environment. When the U.S. government recognized areas contaminated with hazardous waste were threatening the health of communities, it created the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) — AKA Superfund — in 1980. If you’d like to learn [...]
What’s a Superfund site, anyway? Here’s a basic breakdown
Well, to answer your question — and pretty obvious from the photo — Superfund sites are not very pretty. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website, Superfunds are “contaminated sites … due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed.” Most of the time, these are “manufacturing facilities, processing [...]
A Different Approach to Lampricide
Seven lamprey species call Ohio home, and six of those species live harmlessly. One species, however, poses a great threat to the Great Lakes: the invasive sea lamprey. Sea lampreys are able to kill up to 40 pounds of fish over their feeding period lasting 12-18 months according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. To [...]
A new pipeline may be coming to Ohio in 2019
Shell has proposed to begin work on a new pipeline - the Falcon pipeline - in 2019. The 97.5 mile pipeline would run through Cadiz, Ohio to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Local residents expressed concern that the new pipeline would bring a multitude of health problems. Shell identified 25 locations that are prone to landslides in its [...]
Two of Northeast Ohio’s most controversial toxic waste sites
IMAGE: A member of a cleanup crew examines a tank at Danton Dry Cleaning in 1994. The storefront spilled toxic waste into its basement, which leaked into the local water supply, and the EPA has been trying to clean up the mess for nearly 30 years. (Cleveland.com) No one can deny the environmental issues and [...]
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