REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup (KLH) mengingatkan ada potensi sanksi yang bisa dikenakan kepada pengelola tempat pemroses akhir (TPA) jika tidak melakukan pengelolaan sesuai standar dan melanjutkan praktik open dumping atau pembuangan terbuka. Sanksi tersebut berupa pidana hingga denda miliaran rupiah. “Pengelola TPA yang melanggar akan dikenakan sanksi sesuai Pasal 40 ayat (1) UU No. 18 Tahun […]
Our coastal forest showed little effect from the first 10-hour exposure to salty water in June 2022 and grew normally for the rest of the year. We increased the exposure to 20 hours in June 2023, and the forest still appeared mostly unfazed, although the tulip poplar trees were drawing water from the soil more […]
Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied reports of rumours of him dumping the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Posting on X, the former governor wrote: “Please disregard the patent lies and rumours about my political affiliation. I have referred the lead peddlers of the fake news […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The city of Philadelphia is rolling out twice-a-week trash pickup as part of a plan to fight illegal dumping. The program began Monday in most of South Philadelphia and Center City. The areas that will be targeted are from Callowhill Street to Pattison Avenue, between the Schuylkill Expressway (30th Street) and Delaware […]
WASHINGTON (CN) — A climate activist was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for covering the glass display housing the U.S. Constitution with red powder as part of a protest this past February. Donald Zepeda, a 35-year-old member of activist group Declare Emergency, entered the National Archives Museum on Feb. 14 with co-defendant […]
New modeling can help predict areas with high contaminants and aid officials in creating better seafood safety advisories. (CN) — Decades before the pesticide DDT was banned in the United States, it was dumped in the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles. The marine ecosystems are still recovering from it, but new research highlights […]