Month: July 2021

By MELISSA SEVIGNY• JUL 29, 2021 Heavy rain this weekend led to flash flood warnings across much of Northern Arizona, especially in areas with recent wildfire scars. The close links between fire and flood concern water managers in the Phoenix Valley, who rely on the Salt and Verde watersheds for drinking water supplies. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke …

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July 29, 2021Contact InformationEPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON (July 29, 2021) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a new web resource with interactive maps and supporting materials that combine information on air pollution emitted by fossil fuel-fired power plants with key demographical data on nearby communities. The Power Plants and Neighboring Communities initiative …

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July 29, 2021Contact InformationEPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published preliminary Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data about chemical releases, chemical waste management, and pollution prevention activities that took place during 2020 at nearly 21,000 federal and industrial facilities across the country. The preliminary data released today includes the first-ever reporting …

EPA Releases Preliminary Data for 2020 Toxics Release Inventory Reporting, Including First Ever Reporting on PFAS Read More »

The City of Tucson as well as its partners, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona and Tucson Clean & Beautiful, encourage you to help improve the visual appearance of our community as part of the Team Up To Clean Up campaign. The campaign asks all of us to work together to reduce litter for …

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HENRY BREAN Arizona Daily Star There’s no way to sugarcoat this: Climate researcher Mike Crimmins is getting creamed in his own monsoon forecasting contest. The University of Arizona environmental science professor predicted Tucson would get just 1.85 inches of July rainfall in the online Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Forecasts game he helped launch last month. Instead, …

A drip-by-drip look at our wettest July Read More »

THE ABBEY PUMPING STATION IS AN UNUSUAL science and technology museum in Leicester, England. The set of  four working steam-powered beam engines leftover from its time as a sewage pumping station is its main attraction. These are leftover from its time as a sewage pumping station. It also houses a range of other exhibits. The set of  four …

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