Planet Hazard

Found a great website that has a way to organize and list our planet's greatest polluters.

• Top Ten Polluters
  Maps the top ten polluters in the nation, state, county or city
  National
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• List Polluters
  List polluters by state, county or city
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  County
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• List Pollutants
  List chemical pollutants and total annual emissions for each pollutant
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  Original Website: Click Here
  

This is the kind of information that the Bush administration is trying to make less assessable. Here is a good example of why he would be nervous. It brings transparency to many of the corporate practices that are allowed to happen because of campaign contributions and lobbyist who bribe the leadership of this country.

A team will study the trashing of our oceans

Since reading Alan Riseman's extremely depressing book, "The World Without Us", I've been trying to find evidence that there are places in the Pacific Ocean the size of California that are filled with plastic and trash. Yesterday I attended a National Wildlife Federation's training on Global Warming and there was a PhD student there from the University of South Florida who was also attending. I asked her about it and she said that one of her oceanography classes had pictures of this. I found this website for a team of researchers that will be investigating the trash situation in the Pacific. This should be interesting to follow. Maybe we can learn more about this situation from their study.