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November 12, 2009
Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- beaches, cleanwater, greeninfrastructure, greenroofs, greenspace, LID, lowimpactdevelopment, runoff, smartgrowth, stormwater
Sometimes when people learn that my job is to help clean America's waterways, they assume I care about more about fish than people. The truth is that the best way to keep dirty stormwater and other urban pollution out of our rivers...
October 19, 2009
Posted by Nancy Stoner in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- beachwater, chesapeakebay, waterpollution, waterprogram
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., has introduced a bill to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. Standing at Sandy Point State Park, a popular beach destination that has been plagued in the past with periodic episodes of bacteria pollution, I could...
September 1, 2009
Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- beaches, beachreport, beachwater, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, pollution, sewage, stormwater, testingthewaters
For the more than two decades I have been working to clean up our nation's beaches and waterways, the Clean Water Act has been the primary tool of my trade. But this year, I have a new solution to turn...
August 10, 2009
Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- beachreport, beachwater, cleanwateract, deadzone, greeninfrastructure, greenroofs, lowimpactdevelopment, nutrients, sewage, simplesteps, stormwater, testingthewaters
I spent most of last week talking to reporters about NRDC's 19th annual beachwater quality report, Testing the Waters. I walked them through our findings: that that there were more than 20,000 times when beaches were deemed unhealthy for swimming--mostly...
May 21, 2009
Posted by Nancy Stoner in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- beaches, beachwater, greenchat, pollution, testingthewaters, waterprogram
Heading to the beach this summer? Before you go, chat live with NRDC's Nancy Stoner on May 21 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern about beachwater pollution and tips for protecting yourself and your family from waterborne illnesses. Nancy heads the team...