pollution

KG Urban's announcement that they were withdrawing their application for a Region C Casino license so they could build a casino at the former Cannon Street Power Station, left many wondering what the future would be for that site.

The 2010 BP oil spill that spewed 172 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the summer before finally being capped left what researchers describe as a "bathtub ring" on the Gulf's sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island...

It's a prime example of natural selection at work. A species of fish in the New Bedford Harbor has adapted and is now thriving, even though the sediment has been contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for decades. Mark Hahn, a senior scientist in biology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the co-author of a new report on New Bedford's killifish population...

A new study claims the effects of air pollution are responsible for more than two million deaths a year. Both fine particle matter and human-caused increases in ozone pollution are being blamed. East Asia is the worst affected area, with an estimated one million people that die prematurely each year...

   

The Environmental Protection Agency says the overall release of toxic chemicals to the environment decreased in New England in 2011, an improvement over the previous year. The EPA's latest Toxic Release Inventory shows that approximately 18...

The Toxics Action Center organization has once again recognized New England's twelve worst polluters through their annual "Dirty Dozen" report. The report, released today, lists several local sites which public health and environmental non-profit officials say have failed to take appropriate action to address their pollution problems...