by Eric Skalac | May 4, 2011 | Environment, Topics
Victoria Pickering/FLICKR Washington contributes a large amount of sediment and nutrient pollution to the Potomac River. WASHINGTON— The annual Chesapeake Bay water quality “report card” does not contain good news for the Potomac River. But despite the drop in river...
by Eric Skalac | Apr 22, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Using microbes to turn carbon dioxide into fuel may sound futuristic, but it’s exactly the kind of project – created by a team of South Carolina scientists — that the Department of Energy will continue to support in 2011 despite cutbacks in...
by Eric Skalac | Apr 12, 2011 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON—Miniscule amounts of radiation from Japan’s nuclear emergency have reached the U.S., but Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson assured U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that those amounts were well-monitored and far below dangerous levels. Jackson...
by Eric Skalac | Apr 5, 2011 | Environment
johntrathome/FLICKR Coal ships in the Three Gorges. WASHINGTON–China’s lead in clean energies may be attractive to U.S. lawmakers, but both American and Chinese reliance on coal looks unlikely to change any time soon. In a U.S. House of Representatives committee...
