HOUSTON - Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water. "Nitrates come mainly from agricultural runoff, which affects farming communities all over the world," said Rice chemical engineer Michael Wong, the lead scientist on the study.
ANN ARBOR - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said it will conduct a preliminary examination of a large dioxane plume in and around Ann Arbor that has gotten in the surface water system to establish if it would qualify for federal Superfund status. The Chicago office of the EPA notified local officials and the
ANN ARBOR - The Environmental Protection Agency's recent reaffirmation of national fuel economy standards will likely result in large reductions of future emissions and fuel consumed - even if the future vehicle mix does not change, say University of Michigan researchers. "While there is no reason to believe that modifications to the applicable CAFE standards
HOUGHTON — Bees are dying, and Cindy Fiser wants to know why. Now the federal Environmental Protection Agency is helping her look for answers. Fiser, a fourth-year applied ecology and environmental sciences major in Michigan Technological University’s School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, has been named a winner of the EPA’s Greater Research Opportunities
WASHINGTON D.C. - Environmental and conservation groups throughout the Great Lakes region were encouraged by targets for combating Lake Erie algal blooms that were released by US EPA and Environment Canada Monday. The targets outlined represent the current scientific consensus on what is required to prevent toxic and nuisance algal blooms from continuing to plague
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan will need to invest $2.077 billion over the next 20 years to maintain and improve its various water treatment facilities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a report released Thursday. The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2012 showed Michigan among the lowest need states, with costs of less than $500 per
WASHINGTON DC - Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident LeeAnne Walters told a U.S. House committee Wednesday that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality engaged in a cover-up to prevent its failure to enforce drinking water laws in Flint from coming to light, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was complicit in that
FLINT - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering the state and city of Flint to take a series of immediate actions to address the city's drinking water crisis, declaring the state and city "have failed to take adequate measures to protect public health." Additionally, in a series of rapid developments Thursday evening, President Barack
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pork and dairy producers and several universities have launched the Nutrient Recycling Challenge, a competition to develop affordable technologies that recycle nutrients from livestock waste. The four phase-competition, which began on November 16, will include cash awards of up to a combined
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman announced Tuesday that the agency would conduct an audit of the Department of Environmental Quality drinking water program in response to the Flint drinking water crisis. The region will examine the department's implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act and related rules on
