Articles in the Beach Pollution Category
Beach Pollution, Featured, Federal Spending, Green Initiatives, Stormwater Runoff, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Development, Waste Water, Water Filtration, Water Pollution »
Through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, the City of Hermosa Beach, California will revamp its stormwater management system via a ‘Greenstreet’ retrofit of Pier Avenue. Currently, the biggest contamination threat to Southern California coasts continues to be stormwater runoff; consequently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State Water Resources Control Board has initiated a Clean Water State Revolving Loan funding program…
Beach Pollution, Chemical Spills, Featured, Waste Water, Water Pollution, Water Quality Monitoring, Wildlife Conservation »
A pan-European group of organizations have united together to bring about major developments in response to marine wildlife emergencies, dubbed EMPOWER. The cause will support wildlife rescue organizations, as well as veterinarians and scientists to work effectively with authorities in circumstances where many seabirds, marine mammals or marine turtles unexpectedly wash onto land with health crises. Many unintended, yet common situations such as oil or chemical spills, toxic algae…
Beach Pollution, Featured, Global Sustainability, Green Products, Plastic Alternative, Plastic Bags Trash, Reusable Shopping Bags, Waste Program, Water Pollution »
Save the Bay’s 4th annual list of Bay Trash Hot Spots has dropped, calling attention to the ever-growing crisis of plastic waste in our oceans and creeks. The trash-blighted Hot Spots are ten San Francisco Bay shorelines and creeks where volunteers removed the most plastic shopping bags on Coastal Cleanup Day in 2008 – a day in which volunteers removed nearly 15,000 plastic bags from these areas. In fact, the activist organization estimates more than one million plastic bags end up in San Francisco Bay
Beach Pollution, Featured, Water Pollution »
The National Resources Defense Council has recently released its annual survey of water quality and has determined beach pollution to be the cause of numerous beach closings and advisories, which has reached their 2nd highest level in the report’s 18 year history. The statement also revealed that ocean, bay and Great Lakes beach closings and advisories topped 20,000 in 2007 for the third subsequent year, verifying that our country’s beaches continue to remain dangerously polluted and pose serious health risks…
