Tag: GreenPeace

Guest Blog: Electronic Waste, Where it Ends Up and What You Can Do About It

Post author By lindsaymcnamara
Post date July 14, 2013
8 Comments on Guest Blog: Electronic Waste, Where it Ends Up and What You Can Do About It

Guest Blog by: Craig Dsouza Craig Dsouza just graduted from the University of Delaware with a Masters degree in Environmental Policy. Read his blog ‘People and the Planet: The Spotlight on India’ here. On 20-something environmentalist, Craig writes about a common environmental issue in his native country: e-waste in India. A worn out old personal computer, […]

Tags China, Craig Dsouza, Electronic waste, environment, environmental policy, Ewaste, Greener Electronics, GreenPeace, Guest Blog, India, lead, mercury, PCBs, pollution, recycling, third world countries, toxic chemicals, University of Delaware

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Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Part III: Ecology

Post author By lindsaymcnamara
Post date October 8, 2012
2 Comments on Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Part III: Ecology

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 […]

Tags acid rain, air pollution, bats, EPA, Facebook, GreenPeace, Hidden Risk Report, invertivores, mercury, saltmarsh sparrow, social media, songbirds, The Nature Conservancy, Twitter, Unfriend Coal, wetlands, White-nose syndrome