SMS Committee meets with PDA Secretary to discuss mine reclamation projects.
The Community Awareness Committee's (CAC) Spent Mushroom Substrate (SMS) research group recently met with Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) Secretary Dennis Wolff and other state officials in Harrisburg, PA to discuss using SMS in mine reclamation projects. Last December, President Bush signed a 15-year extension on a...

Deregulation condemned.
Alberta and Ontario government moves to cut environmental protection programmes and legal requirements are being attacked by environmentalists who say the changes are economically short-sighted and counter to the wishes of Canadians. Last fall, the two provinces began the first significant reversals of environmental laws that have...

Mine rehab projects get P183-M outlay.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The national government has approved a P183 million budget mainly for critical rehabilitation works at the abandoned Bagacay mine and similarly crucial geo-hazard mapping in landslide-prone areas. The government has considered rehabilitation of old mines as priority since these mines can...

Treatment of landfill leachate using limestone/sandstone filters under aerobic batch conditions.
INTRODUCTION Landfill leachate is generated when water from rain and snow percolates through the waste material in a landfill. Leachate is one of the main environmental concerns associated with landfill management because it contains contaminants such as organic matter, heavy metals and mineral oils which have the...

Bioremediation: Hope of environment.
Byline: ASUNCION K. RAYMUNDO, Ph.D Academician, NAST Professor, UP-Los Banos Head, Bioremediation Research Team OUR country keeps on generating tons of toxic and hazardous wastes generally from industries; these are in addition to existing dumpsites like abandoned mines that harbor high levels of pollutants. While some industries...

Massey Energy to Pay $20 Million Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations.
ENERGY RESOURCE-17 January 2008-Massey Energy to Pay $20 Million Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that Massey Energy Company Inc., the fourth largest coal company in the United States, has agreed to pay...

The Tar Creek excursion: not your ordinary community experience.
This year Oklahoma is celebrating the centennial of statehood. We are very proud of the history of our state from the exciting Land Run to surviving the OKC bombing. We are the land of lakes, green country, rodeos, pow wows, and front-porch sitting. Yet within our borders resides a...

Embrace mining reform.
Byline: The Register-Guard With a Democratic majority in Congress, the price of gold at a three-decade high and a push by image-conscious retailers, reform of the 1872 General Mining Act seems a foregone conclusion. The real question is whether reform will be meaningful, requiring mining...

Benguet rivers contaminated; Study finds traces of cyanide, mercury in water samples.
Byline: DEXTER A. SEE TUBLAY, Benguet -- A study conducted by the University of the Cordillera (UC) showed that at least seven river tributaries in Barangay Ambassador, this town are not safe for human use due to the presence of cyanide and mercury. The results...

Champion cleanup wins over critics.
Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard The first problem an environmental engineer faced this summer at the old Champion gold mine was 2,000 cubic yards of the strangest sludge he'd ever seen. "I can't explain it," engineer and mine expert Dennis Boles said, while surveying the...