Earth Protect Blog

Unused meds, about 200 million pounds of them each year have to be disposed of and NOT down our drains. Flushing meds pollutes lakes, rivers and drinking water. At home it's a poison risk for kids and teens, and passing it along could cause a very bad result for the people who take them. What to do?...

It gets worse, several wild life groups filed a lawsuit to stop BP from burning spilled oil as it is killing endangered sea turtles. One group was the Animal Welfare Institute. The US District judge ordered BP to restrict its burns. The cure is killing. These turtles are millions of years old and ve...

WASHINGTON (June 15, 2010) -- In his first Oval Office address, President Obama laid out his plans for cleaning up the millions of gallons of oil that have already escaped and talked about what we must do to decrease our dependence on oil. "Tonight, President Obama made it clear that he plans to pu...

Louisiana, Florida and other Gulf Coast states face worse that thought environmental damage as the estimates of how much oil is spilling rise, the latest estimate is as much as 40,000 barrels!!! a day. Moody Investors Services site unemployment, tempered in the short term by clean up jobs but a long...

California, which has some of the nation's strictest environmental rules, may soon become the first state to ban plastic shopping bags. Its Assembly passed a bill Wednesday, by a 41-27 vote, to bar grocery stores from offering plastic bags beginning in Jan. 2012. The ban would extend to convenience...

Thank goodness, finally after 40 yrs the Environmental Protection Agency, US, issued standards that lower the acceptable levels of sulfur-dioxide emissions and increase the intervals the gas is monitored. With asthma and other respiratory disease on the rise especially in children and the elderly, t...

This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launchedan audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals: thenorthern white rhinoceros. Four of the last eight known northern whitesin the world, two male and two female, were packed into wooden cratesand sent from a Czech zoo to...

By Ryan P. Moyer November 2009       Coral reefs are uniquely complex ecosystems in that they are defined by the underlying geologic structures ("reefs") that are constructed primarily by calcifying organisms (mostly coral and algae). Coral-reef habit...

The sluggish recovery of the southern sea otter of California, a threatened population on the Endangered Species list, appears to have stalled once again. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists say the latest 3-year running average (2,813 sea otters) was 0.5-percent lower than last year, the firs...

By Jonathan Bardelline Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic of 40 major metropolitan areas. Forbes ranked the cities based on the number of Superfund sites in the principal city, number of facilities that ...