Search Results for: pollution

November 8, 2010

• Navajo Generating Station  |   Video
  • A public forum will be held November 15th to consider the impact on water and energy users if expensive federal pollution regulations force the closing of the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station in Northeastern Arizona. Susan Bitter Smith, President of the Central Arizona Project’s Board of Directors, discusses the issue.
    More information on the forum

August 30, 2010

• Dust Pollution Sanctions  |   Video
  • Lindy Bauer, Environmental Director for the Maricopa Association of Governments, discusses the severe financial sanctions Maricopa County will face if the EPA disapproves a MAG dust reduction plan that’s been in effect since 2007.

June 1, 2010

• Air Quality Violations  |   Video
  • Maricopa County is in danger of losing millions of dollars in federal funding because of repeated violations for dust in the air. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Director Benjamin Grumbles explains the situation.

May 12, 2008

• Ghana Cooking Stove  |   Video
  • A close look at ASU’s Global Resolve, a social entrepreneurship program designed to promote sustainability projects around the world. Engineering students at ASU East created a stove that converts corn to ethanol. It can help provide energy and improve the air pollution problem for the people of Ghana.

July 17, 2007

• Air Quality
  • Arizona's efforts to control dust pollution in the valley have failed to satisfy the EPA. The state now faces a deadline to deal with the problem. Senator Carolyn Allen discusses the issue.

April 18, 2007

• Air Quality
  • The Phoenix area continues to violate the federal health standard for PM-10 airborne particulates, or dust. Find out what needs to be done to meet a deadline (at the end of this year) for a plan to reduce particulate pollution by five percent a year until the standard is met. Guests: Steve Owens – Director, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Bob Kard – Director, Maricopa County’s Air Quality Department Resources: ADEQ Web site: http://www.azdeq.gov/index.html Maricopa County’s Air Quality Web site: http://www.maricopa.gov/aq/ Maricopa County’s BringBackBlue.org Clean Air Initiative: http://www.bringbackblue.org/

January 17, 2007

• Bring Back Blue
  • The Chairman of the Maricopa County Board Of Supervisors, Fulton Brock, discusses the county’s new initiative, Bring Back Blue, designed to make people aware of particulate matter pollution in the Valley.

July 18, 2006

• Amphibians
  • Amphibians are disappearing worldwide. Climate changes, pollution and habitat destruction have all played a significant role in the reduction of diverse amphibian species numbers. Researchers at Arizona State University have discovered an additional threat—deadly diseases—that are killing these creatures at an alarming rate.

December 20, 2005

• Air Quality
  • The winter brown cloud hanging over the Valley is especially bad this season, prompting the Arizona Department of Air Quality to issue several high-pollution advisories. ADEQ Director Steve Owens joins us to talk about air quality.