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MISSISSIPPI RIVER CLEANUP
In 1997, an Illinois man decided to clean up the river himself; nearly three decades later, his organisation has removed 14 million pounds of rubbishChad Pregracke had grown up around the Mississippi River. He knew its waters well and had spent years watching rubbish pile up along its ba...
In 2022, contractors began using 400,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand to build six islands at Minnesota’s Pigs Eye Lake; the project covers more than 40 acres and aims to protect surrounding wetlandsContractors began constructing new islands in Pigs Eye Lake in June 2022 using sand from the Mississippi River. This project aims to restor...
As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a priceThe Trump administration withdrew a lawsuit against a Louisiana chloroprene-emitting plant, raising concerns in the predominantly Black com...
- Debris in relief well hits BP clean-up
Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil spill a small memento that is expected to push their work back about a day.
- BP says it will pay for Gulf spill's cleanup
BP PLC said Monday that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing cr...