On July 1, 2011, crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River approximately 20 miles upstream of Billings, Montana when a pipeline feeding the ExxonMobil refinery in Lockwood broke. According to ExxonMobil estimates, 1,000 barrels of oil entered the river before the … Continued
On June 21, 2011, Maryland’s State Board of Education provided specific guidance to its public schools to require that each student be environmentally literate before he or she graduates from high school. The vote cements Maryland as the first state … Continued
How to attract and sustain wildlife is an important issue for property owners across North America. Areas intended for wildlife range from setting aside a few feet in back yards to procurements of land tracts by conservation groups. In many … Continued
According to the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, oysters, fish and other wildlife could be impacted as record amounts of freshwater head down the Mississippi River toward the Mississippi Sound. Scott Gordon, Director of the Shellfish Bureau, Office of Marine … Continued