Letters: Should Unicoi regulate burning? | Opinion
With Monday’s Question of the Week, we asked readers whether Unicoi, which recently received complaints from residents about the burning of waste, should regulate it. Here are some of the responses we received. Protect air quality We are one of the closest houses to this burn site. There were days that we could not be […]
Meriden officials outline steps taken to improve air quality in schools
MERIDEN — School officials have utilized federal coronavirus relief funds to overhaul the air quality control measures in the city’s school buildings. That overhaul coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, which required leaders in Meriden and other districts to reassess their school buildings’ air handling systems — leading officials to ponder new questions when it comes […]
Cleaning: How to clean the oven – easy and simple £1 trick to tackle grease
Cleaning and home-keeping expert Becky Rapinchuk is the woman behind Clean Mama. The Australian housekeeping expert runs a platform with hundreds of thousands of fans. The influencer, with a huge 747,000 Instagram followers on the @cleanmama account, uses a daily cleaning product found in every household for her oven. Rebecca told Express.co.uk: “Dish soap works […]
Past meets present at Welland water treatment plant |
It’s what one might call a fluid situation. There are six municipal water treatment plants in the Niagara Region (Welland, DeCew Falls, Port Colborne, Niagara Falls, Grimsby, and Rosehill-Fort Erie) with surface water intakes which supply over 80 percent of the population with clean H2O. The only one of the 12 sub-municipalities not part of […]
The Day – Breathing while in school
Since last summer, leaders of the state’s largest teachers union have been telling anyone who would listen, including The Day’s Editorial Board, that the air inside many school buildings was making it inhumanely hard to teach and to learn. Most Connecticut schools have some kind of air conditioning, but the systems can be unreliable. Schools from […]
E-Home Household Services Holdings Limited Launches
FUZHOU, China, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — E-Home Household Service Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EJH) (the “Company” or “E-Home”), a provider of integrated household services in China, today announced the Company has launched a new set of preventive anti-virus disinfection and cleaning services for households and indoor public areas amid resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Hamilton Excavating fined for water quality violations
Battle Ground’s Hamilton Excavating was fined $136,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology for violating water-quality and Construction Stormwater General Permit conditions during construction of the Highland Terrace Subdivision in La Center. The fines are in place because the contractor discharged polluted construction stormwater into a tributary of the East Fork Lewis River, according to […]
What’s in City Press: SABC wars reach fever pitch | Motsoaledi vows to clean up home affairs
SABC wars reach fever pitch The warring SABC board is set to be summoned to appear before Parliament to account for the crisis that has gripped the public broadcaster in recent months. The outcome of the hearing could plunge it deeper into disarray, as there are fears that should Parliament’s communications portfolio committee deem the […]
Plan for Navy to filter millions of gallons of water per day from contaminated shaft in Hawaii gets approval
The Hawaii Department of Health has approved a plan for the U.S. Navy to start removing up to five million gallons of treated water each day from a now-closed well on Oahu that is contaminated with petroleum products. The well, which supplies almost 20% of Honolulu’s drinking water, was shut down in November following reports […]
CommonWealth Magazine
TWO BILLS NOW before the Legislature — H.912, An Act Relative to Forest Protection and H.1002, An Act Relative to Increased Protection of Wildlife Management Areas — would help to meet the Commonwealth’s climate goals and stem the loss of biodiversity. We strongly support their passage as a positive step to address the planetary emergencies […]