Items tagged: EPA

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Aftershocks

May 13, 2011 - 8:13 am

The nuclear disasters caused by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan have heated up concerns over water safety and radiation. Authorities reported increases of radioactive iodine in water sources surrounding the Fukushima site. The major issue? Steam released from the nuclear plants...

Categories: Features

McGill Researchers Develop Silver Nano Filter

March 7, 2011 - 10:01 am

Chemistry researchers at Montreal's McGill University have developed a key step towards making a cheap, portable, paper-based filter coated with silver nanoparticles to be used to prevent the spread of disease in emergency situations, such as floods and earthquakes. “Silver has been used to...

Categories: News, Quebec

EPA Releases Plan for Great Lakes

February 22, 2010 - 12:42 pm

Over the weekend, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals, objectives and key...

Categories: International, News

More Canadian Companies Look to China

October 15, 2009 - 9:03 am

Quebec-based BioSpec Global Solutions Inc., and partner ICBS Ltd. have announced that they’re filing Eurasian patents in anticipation of entry into China. "China is one of the world's largest markets for our analyzer's and has one of the worst water situations on the planet" said Don Saunders, BioSpec’s...

Categories: International, National, News, Quebec