Posted August 15, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
This afternoon I filed a technical comment letter with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) on behalf of NRDC and ten other organizations and individuals regarding the changes that ODNR is making to its rules governing the disposal of...continued→
Posted July 26, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution
NRDC is releasing a new analysis of requirements in states across the country that oil and gas companies disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. Here in Illinois, high-volume fracking may be coming this year, but we currently have no...continued→
Posted July 26, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution
NRDC is releasing a new analysis today of requirements in states across the country that oil and gas companies disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. The report evaluates the states’ rules for disclosure of chemicals used in fracking fluids,...continued→
Posted July 12, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans released a long-awaited risk assessment of the likelihood of Asian carp surviving and spreading in the Great Lakes should they successfully infiltrate Lake Michigan through the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS). Much...continued→
Posted June 18, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today I discovered that, ten days ago, the Army Corps posted on its web site new environmental DNA (or “eDNA”) test results detecting the presence of Asian carp near Lake Michigan. This is apparently the first set of eDNA results...continued→
Posted June 8, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
This week we released a report, Poisoning the Great Lakes: Mercury Emissions from Coal Fired Power Plants in the Great Lakes Region, which highlights the impacts of mercury emissions from Great Lakes power plants on the people, fish, birds, and...continued→
Posted June 1, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
The Illinois General Assembly just wrapped up a contentious session that left some major bills addressing the state’s economic woes unfinished. But while most eyes were on chippy debates over pension reform, a major environmental bill with massive economic implications...continued→
Posted May 19, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
A modern-day gold rush is on in Ohio. Oil and natural gas locked up in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations has attracted billions in investment from oil and gas companies ready to use new horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing,...continued→
Posted March 14, 2012 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, U.S. Law and Policy
You know you’ve got a big problem on your hands when you can see it from space. Today, NRDC and a large coalition of partner organizations announced the filing of two separate legal actions to put pressure on the U.S....continued→
Posted September 9, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Army Corps announced today the release of three separate reports related to the ongoing Asian carp invasion of Lake Michigan, as I blogged about here. The report that is likely to get the least public attention out of the...continued→
Posted September 9, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Army Corps announced today the release of three separate reports related to the ongoing Asian carp invasion of Lake Michigan. Much of the Corps’ announcement contained familiar refrains, most notably the Corps’ continued emphatic assertion that its electric fish...continued→
Posted August 3, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The state and federal agencies who collectively participate in the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee have all gone fishin’ this week. It may be August, but this isn’t a pleasure trip: they are looking for live Asian carp in Lake...continued→
Posted July 25, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
On Friday, we won another legal battle in the fight to bring protective ballast water standards to the Great Lakes! The federal appeals court in Washington, DC denied a legal challenge by ports and shipping interests to U.S. EPA’s Clean...continued→
Posted July 20, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today I discovered that the Army Corps this week posted on its web site new environmental DNA (or “eDNA”) test results detecting the presence of Asian carp near Lake Michigan. The results reported are from eDNA tests done this summer,...continued→
Posted May 11, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last week the Army Corps finally released the original draft of its report showing that its electric fish fence does not appear to stop small Asian carp from swimming past it and into the Chicago waterway system – and,...continued→
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