Radioactive particles from leaky nuclear reactors in Japan continue to rain on the United States in trace amounts that the government says we shouldn’t be worried of, milk included, and now you can monitor their progress via the EPA RadNet website in real time. It’s fun for the whole family.
After some back and forth with the city for what seemed like forever, the EPA is moving ahead with plans to name Gowanus Canal a Superfund site. That means federal resources can now be allocated and someone will finally start cleaning up all the toxic crap that’s been accumulating in the Brooklyn waterway for decades. |City Room|
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The Environmental Protection Agency has a lot of explaining to do after the state of New Jersey announced it will be permanently scrapping an ecological plan to use out of commission NYC subway cars as offshore reef building material. Although the federal entity estimated that the sunken trains would last 25-30 years, in some cases they’ve barely managed to stay intact for a few months. The Garden State drowned a total of 48 subway cars and according to an EPA spokesperson, “Out of 48, 46 were destroyed.” |PressofAC|
Here’s a shocker. The teeny 70hp Smart Car, which is great for finding parking in the city that not even a Mini could, but terrible when it comes to getting squashed on the BQE like a bug, has been rated the most fuel efficient, all gas powered vehicle in the EPA’s annual report (PDF). The 8 ft. long, non-hybrid, two-seater achieves 33 city/41 highway mpg. But despite it’s tiny size, the car only placed 5th overall for fuel efficiency, with HEVs and other alternate technologies ranking higher.
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