More than 100 tons of dead fish was removed from the river after an apparent toxic chemical release in December. The good news is that nature renews itself. But the damage has been done. For this season at least, wildlife is pretty sparse in what has become known as the kill zone. With aquatic creatures only beginning to re-emerge, animals and fowl that feed on the fish must go elsewhere for sustenance.
Ozone is a key ingredient in summer smog.
The changes stem from a law passed this year by the General Assembly that decriminalizes failure to test a vehicle. Instead of being sent to court, those who do not take their vehicles in for a pollution check will find their registration revoked administratively. Fox declined to say what the new standard might be. In a heated closed-door meeting yesterday, conservative lawmakers argued the Conservation and Reinvestment Act would infringe on private property rights and transfer power to federal officials. Observations from spacecraft and readings from ocean buoys show that La Ni a, a phenomenon often related to an increase in hurricanes that make landfall, has disappeared entirely in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is rapidly vanishing from the rest of the Pacific, scientists say.