A trio of coal companies has agreed to temporarily limit operations at three mountaintop removal mines opposed by environmentalists
Climate change adds twist to river restoration
Can the Chesapeake Bay survive the garbage choking Maryland's rivers? A really weird article because it's clear that the author talked to scientists who tried to explain the serious problems of sediments, nutrients, and stormwater, but she was most interested in talking about garbage.
Breach of a small dam near Columbia, MO leads to draining of a neighborhood lake and questions about how to restore the stream and who should ultimately be responsible
Ontario supports altered management of Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River for more natural variation in flows However, some residents along the lake and river are opposed to the plan
As volunteers flock to the Charles River tomorrow for the annual spring clean up event, and paddlers arrive for the “Run of the Charles” canoe and kayak race, EPA water quality monitoring data show that during 2007, the Charles River had it’s best water quality for boating and swimming since the intensive Clean Charles Initiative began in 1995
Asarco and Atlantic Richfield Co. together will pay $37 million to state and federal agencies as part of the effort to clean up decades of mining waste in the headwaters of the Blackfoot River, MT, according to government officials.
Tempe, AZ has committed to preserving 159 acres in areas along the Salt River as a habitat for endangered and threatened animals
As far as I can tell, this AP story is quoting a Colorado College study as finding something about stream restoration projects in the US with numbers remarkably similar to those found by the NRRSS project several years ago (we found 37,000 total projects in our study, which focused only on certain regions of the US, and estimated $1 billion per year was being spent on restoration nationwide). If anybody knows more about the Colorado College study, I'd love to read it and see what their methods were. Or if this AP story is just wrong, we should probably let them know, since it's since been printed in almost every newspaper in the country.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Have confirmed with one of the people quoted in the AP story that there was indeed some very sloppy reporting and there is no new study out of Colorado College. Exactly what happened is too convoluted to go into, but there was clearly no fact checking going on.
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