California Targets Big Screen TVs

The California Energy Commission issued proposed new rules that will require newly manufactured televisions to be more energy efficient.  Beginning in 2011, televisions sold in California will consume an average of 33 percent less energy than they do today.  In 2013, televisions would have to consume 49 percent less energy on average.
This is being proposed [...]

Barrel Recycling Plant Owner Fined for and Imprisoned for RCRA Violations

Alan Hersh, the 70 year old former owner of a barrel recycler, was sentenced to prison and fined for hazardous waste violations in February, 2009.  He was ordered to spend 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.  He was also ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitutionf or clean up [...]

Cleaning up the Matanza-Riachuelo River in Argentina

The Matanza-Riachuelo River divides Buenos Aires City from the Province of Buenos Aires and runs into the Rio de la Plata which provides drinking water for the million of inhabitants in this region.  Translated, its name means the Slaughter River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanza_River
For decades the authorities have been attempting to clean up the river, but to no avail.  [...]