According to the Hidden Risk Report, a publication from the Biodiversity Research Institute in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, “invertivores” are greatly affected by mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. Songbirds and bats are referred to as invertivores because they eat a variety of invertebrate species like spiders, snails and worms; not just insects. Invertivores […]
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Environmental policies are systemically intertwined with science, politics, economics and history. Effective environmental policies improve public health, environmental justice concerns and take flora and fauna into consideration. Beyond law and regulation, there is a feedback loop between environmental policy and environmental advocacy. Advocates may push for new legislation or new legislation may empower advocates. In […]
Hydrocarbon spillages, solvents, pesticides, heavy metals, tributyltins, and asbestos. These are all typical pollutants found on Brownfield sites, an abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facility available for redevelopment, often times contaminated by the agents above. The EPA highlights success stories from 16 states across the nation, but perhaps the most well-known area in the […]
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