Water Pollution Archives - The Westside Story

Antibiotic pollution is flooding the world’s rivers, new survey shows

Jun 15, 2019

In a large-scale survey of the world’s rivers, researchers have found antibiotics in about two-thirds, according to ScienceNews.org. Environmental antibiotic pollution fuels the rise of drug resistance, a globa...

Florida appoints nation’s first state-level science chief to deal with climate change and pollution

West Side Story

May 29, 2019

Environment, Policy, Science

The US state of Florida has become the first in the nation to appoint a chief science officer on the state level, to help address a range of problems ranging from water quality to rising sea levels due to clima...

Trump’s EPA to scale back water pollution rules

West Side Story

Dec 11, 2018

Environment, Policy, Science

The Trump administration is scaling back existing federal protections on waterways, exposing streams and wetlands to pollution from agriculture and other sources, according to the LA Times. Internal talking ...

A giant net is on its way to clean up the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean

West Side Story

Sep 9, 2018

Environment, Innovation, Science

A new project launched this week will aim to clean up 90 percent of the garbage patch floating in the Pacific by 2040, using what is essentially a giant net, according to ScienceNews.org. Such a plan was fir...

Three quarters of British beaches found to be inundated with industrial plastic

West Side Story

Feb 17, 2017

Environment, Science, World

A search across the UK has found that nearly three quarters of beaches throughout the country are littered with tiny plastic pellets. The pellets, smaller than the size of a pea, are known as “nurdles”, and use...

Lead levels in Flint, Michigan water supply finally drop below federal limits, skepticism remains

West Side Story

Jan 24, 2017

Environment, Health, Policy, Science

Ongoing testing has found that lead levels in the water system of Flint, Michigan, have finally dropped below federal limits after the city reached its one thousandth day without drinkable water last week. For ...

With his policy proposals to scrap environmental regulation, Donald Trump’s claims that he would have prevented Flint’s water crisis are dubious at best

West Side Story

Sep 20, 2016

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

As the Republican nominee, Donald Trump is running as a presidential candidate opposed to increased government regulation. At the same time, he has marketed himself as the populist, anti-establishment alternati...

Quiet Shell oil spill leaves unanswered questions

West Side Story

Jul 27, 2016

Environment, Science

A Shell oil leak, on May 12th in the Gulf of Mexico, has gone relatively unnoticed by the public. Despite the apparently moderate size of the leak, this spill demonstrates how smaller leaks can result in as muc...

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