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Cleaning up dirty water can create energy listen
03/27/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: waste water, water, clean water, USF, sustainability, numeric nutrient standards, EPA
Researchers at the University of South Florida showed off their work with waste water and other testing technologies to officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. During lab tours today, Professor Daniel Yeh demonstrated how the water that gets dumped, flushed or otherwise thrown out can be put to better use.
Be the first to comment“If you can just re-route the electrodes that’s built into the waste organic matter, we can actually turn the waste organic matter into methane which is basically natural g...
Businesses oppose what they say will be costly EPA regulations for Florida waterways listen
01/18/13 Ella WindWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: EPA, FDEP, water quality, numeric nutrient standards, nutrient pollution, environment, DEP
The Environmental Protection Agency’s new numeric limits on nutrient levels in Florida waterways overrule the weaker, narrative-based limits used by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.The EPA says it will retract its rules if the Florida DEP creates its own standards. At a public information session in downtown Tampa Thursday, business owners want that to happen.
Some business people were unhappy with the EPA’s new role in regulating nutrient levels in Florida waterways. Af...
Be the first to commentFlorida environmentalists tell EPA to stand-by its water quality standards listen
01/17/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: EPA, FDEP, water quality, numeric nutrient standards, nitrogen pollution, nutrient pollution, environment, DEP
The Environmental Protection Agency set new water quality standards in November that placed numeric limits on nutrient levels in Florida waterways. Environmentalists celebrated it as a win, but now the agency is considering yielding its rules to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection whose standards would not be as strict. 150 people from environmental groups across the state are gathering in downtown Tampa Thursday during a public information session to demand the EPA not let t...
Be the first to commentStudy could start talks on Hillsborough fertilizer ban listen
12/13/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County Commission, Environmental Protection Commission, EPA, FDEP, Tampa Bay Estuary, nitrogen, fertilizer ban
Thursday Hillsborough County Commissioners agreed to spend $25,000 more for a fertilizer study during their monthly meeting as the county’s Environmental Protection Commission. The findings could determine whether or not Hillsborough implements a fertilizer ordinance.
The money will come out of pollution recovery funds and is in addition to another $50,000 that has already been allocated to the study. According to Tom Ash, general manager for environmental monitoring for the Hillsborough ...
Be the first to commentFlorida nutrient pollution battle wanes, Tampa Bay still a focus listen
11/12/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: nitrogen pollution, nutrient pollution, Tampa Bay Estuary Program, Tampa Bay, clean water, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, EPA
The EPA has set new standards for nutrient pollution in Florida waterways after years of head butting and legal battles. The numeric nutrient standards cap nitrogen loads in natural water bodies at today’s levels. Suzanne Cooper, a planner with the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, said the new regulations will keep water bodies like Tampa Bay healthy.
Be the first to comment“So, for Tampa Bay they have identified a TMDL – a total maximum daily load for nitrogen that we cannot go above or it is estimated th...
Is coal ash adequately regulated at the state or federal levels? listen
06/15/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal ash, EarthJustice, coal, EPA, Bill Nelson
One byproduct of burning coal for electricity is coal ash. Last week we aired an interview with Lisa Evans, senior legislative counsel at EarthJustice about the potential dangers of coal ash storage in Florida. In this second half, she talks about how coal ash is -- or isn't -- regulated on the federal an...
Be the first to commentFormer EPA Administrator Carol Browner, Pro Renewable Energy, Pro Environmental Regulation and Pro Nuclear
04/09/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Carol Browner, nuclear power, EPA, mileage standards
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. On the first part of the program we'll hear an interview I taped last week with former EPA chief Carol Browner. She was the longest serving EPA administrator having served from 1993 to 2001. Before that she headed Florida's Department of Environmental Protection. She's now a founder and principal of Allbright Group LLC. We'll talk about the rising pice of gasoline, solar energy, nuclear power, global warming, captured regulatory agencies,...
Be the first to commentExperts discuss New York State Attorney's fracking lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers listen
02/17/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Stetson University College of Law, Hydrofracking, Fracking, EPA, environment, pollution, drilling
Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock under the Earth’s surface. The New York State Attorney General is bringing charges against the Army Corps of Engineers to crack down on the lack of regulation of the process known as fracking. Two of the main players spoke about the lawsuit to students, faculty and members of the public at Stetson Law yesterday.
Mauricio Roma is a geologist who works on the case fo...
Be the first to commentSome protesters think Tampa police are handing out too many trespass warnings listen
12/28/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pam Bondi, EPA, mercury, Occupy Tampa, tresspass, Tampa Police, protests
Occupy Tampa activists and some advocacy groups are wondering why the City of Tampa is giving trespass warnings to so many protesters. This month two groups of people were trespassed from areas where they thought it was safe to assemble.
Cari Welsh thought she was going to be arrested based on the actions of police officers during an Occupy Tampa meeting last week. Instead, about 30 people were given trespass warnings from a parki...
3 commentsTampa activists demand cleaner air rules from the EPA listen
08/24/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Smog, EPA, Sierra Club, public health, air pollution, pollution, regulations, coal, Oil, gasoline
Environmentalists rallied for clean air this morning in downtown Tampa. Their demand for less smog goes hand in hand with their call for reducing the rising rates of asthma in children.
About twenty protesters gathered around the base of a giant inflatable hand in Gaslight Park. The hand was holding an asthma inhaler, which for the activists represents the negative health effects of breathing in too much smog from fossil...
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