Jul. 5—Officials are cleaning up about 1,200 gallons diesel fuel that spilled onto the ground in Penobscot County this week after a train engine hit parked rail cars and ruptured its fuel tank. The collision happened Tuesday near the Mattawamkeag-Winn town line, the Lincoln Fire Department said in a social media post. The crash caused […]
Jul. 5—Officials are cleaning hundreds of gallons of diesel that spilled onto the ground in Penobscot County earlier this week when a train engine hit parked rail cars and ruptured its fuel tank. The collision happened Tuesday near the Mattawamkeag-Winn town line, the Lincoln Fire Department said in a social media post. The crash caused […]
Swimmers were advised to steer clear of a stretch of San Luis Obispo County beach after more than 1,000 gallons of sewage spilled into a nearby street Wednesday morning. According to a news release from the San Luis Obispo Public Health Department, at around 9:20 a.m. an electrical failure caused a pump failure and main […]
A waste-hauling company that took part in a scheme to illegally dispose of millions of gallons of industrial waste into Jackson’s sewer system has settled with the city. The company in question, Partridge-Sibley, has agreed to settle with the city for $630,000. The Jackson City Council will vote on whether to approve the settlement during […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Shana Ferguson heard the questions, saw the negative comments on social media and completely understood the confusion. A U.S. Olympic swimming trials, after all, had never been held in an NFL stadium before. The naysayers were worried about what would happen with the pools that were built inside Lucas Oil Stadium, not to […]
A break in a main sewer pipeline along Maclay Road spewed out roughly 230,000 gallons of sewage. City crews were performing a routine inspection Thursday morning when they found the busted pipe, according to a Florida Department of Environmental Protection notice of pollution. “Staff immediately shut down the station, stopping the overflow,” the notice says. […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Excitement continues to stir surrounding xAI building the world’s largest supercomputer right here in Memphis. But along with the excitement comes concern, specifically from environmentalists. In a joint statement, environmental groups Protect Our Aquifer, Memphis Community Against Pollution, and the Young Gifted and Green expressed their concerns about the facility’s impact on […]
Gone, but not forgotten. – Photo: Joost J. Bakker via Wikimedia Commons We’re all familiar with cars, planes, trains and boats as being the most popular forms of transport the world over. But while boats and ferries have long proven their worth at crossing large bodies of water, there’s another way of navigating the world’s […]
Andrew Halter delivers water 1,200 miles by rail to the Navajo Nation from Mississippi. Navajo Nation residents struggle with water scarcity, with 30% lacking reliable drinking water. Halter hopes water-by-rail can be a solution for other Western communities and in natural disasters. Andrew Halter had been in the railroad business for 25 years, mostly in […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) said it personnel recovered nearly 1,000 gallons of stolen fuel after investigating fuel siphoning at gas stations across Colorado. According to CSPD, detectives have been investigating a pattern of fuel siphoning at gas stations across Colorado where a specially outfitted van would siphon hundreds of gallons […]
After a historic amount of rainfall fell in Los Angeles County from late 2023 through early spring, officials say there was a benefit for the region. L.A. County’s reservoirs captured and stored a little more than 96.3 billion gallons of water since October of last year when storm season began, which is enough to supply […]
BOCA RATON — A day after Sunday’s annual Boca Bash, Brook Crist took to Lake Boca for a day of “treasure hunting,” as she likes to call it. The treasure? The dozens of gallons of garbage left behind in the ocean by this year’s boaters at the bash, the once-a-year water party held on the last […]