Everybody knows pigs smell. Not everyone though, knows how that smell can affect human health. Yet more and more people are being exposed to it. The old farms of a few dozen hogs are fast giving way to mega-farms. Forty percent of all hogs in the United States are produced on farms with at least fifty-thousand head. And more animals means more manure which concerns environmentalists and neighbors of these animal cities. In the first of a two-part series, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Dan Gorenstein reports. not only is there a threat to water sources from runoff and contamination, but the stockpiles of waste release bad-smelling emissions and chemicals into the air:
Month: June 2001
Army Worms Marching Through Midwest
An outbreak of army worms is moving northward through the
Great Lakes region, putting farmers on alert. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Chris Lehman reports:
Beach Testing Funds Available
New federal money is available to states to help monitor
contamination at beaches. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham has more:
Greenhouse Gas Trading on Horizon
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The Great Lakes region will soon be the location of a pilot
program for trading greenhouse gases. Twenty-five companies in seven
states
are volunteering to reduce emissions and trade some of those reductions
to other companies in the region. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham has this report:
Are Fuel Cells for Real?
In 22 years of closely covering the auto industry, Great Lakes
Radio Consortium commentator Paul Eisenstein has heard a lot about
alternative energy and plans to replace the environmentally-unfriendly
internal combustion engine. So far, none have posed a serious challenge
to the much-maligned, but long-lived internal combustion engine. But
this
time, he says, a real, earth-friendly alternative may finally be at
hand:
Car Companies Seek Solutions
For years, environmentalists have been pressing car companies
to make vehicles cleaner. They feel the companies have been moving too
slowly to eliminate substances that are dangerous to the environment.
But automakers aren’t standing still. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Julie Halpert takes a look at new efforts by car companies
to take the toxics out of cars, and the challenges they face in this
job:
Mercury Lingers in Car Light Switches
A dangerous chemical could be lurking beneath the hood of your
car. Environmentalists and automakers are at odds over who should
be responsible for getting rid of it. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s
Julie Halpert takes a look at problems from this toxin found inside the
car:
Getting Rid of Automobile Toxins
When we think of car pollution, we’re usually worried about the
dirty exhaust coming from the tailpipe. But did you know that your car
starts to pollute even before it leaves the garage? The Great Lakes
Radio
Consortium’s Julie Halpert takes a look at the toxics behind the wheel
– and the latest push by environmentalists to get rid of them: