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Concerned about infrastructure standards not keeping up with the reality of climate change, Sen. Sarah Elfreth has introduced a bill that calls for updating the data used to inform regulations and updating it every five years.
Students were just settling in on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University in Western Maryland when researchers wearing protective gear began scooping up weekly samples from the pipes outside their dorms. Before long, scientists, working with the local health team, had made a discovery from the toilet water: shed particles of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus. Without a single student getting a nose swab, public health officials knew that a student at the small, private university — potentially more than one — was carrying the virus. They just had to identify them. Administrat...
Universities, cities and states are testing wastewater for the virus Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post Dec. 25, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Allan Matovu-Barigye collects untreated wastewater at the Ballenger-McKinney treatment facility in Frederick, Md., on Dec. 18. Twice a week, samples are collected and sent to a lab in Rockville to be screened for the coronavirus.Washington Post photo by Katherine FreyShow MoreShow Less 2of3Samples of wastewater from the Ballenger-McKinney wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Md., are collected twice a week and sent to a lab in Ro...
Flushing out the coronavirus: Universities, cities and states are testing wastewater for the virus Ovetta Wiggins © Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Allan Matovu-Barigye collects untreated wastewater at the Ballenger-McKinney treatment facility in Frederick, Md., on Dec. 18. Twice a week, samples are collected and sent to a lab in Rockville to be screened for the coronavirus. Students were just settling in on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University in Western Maryland when researchers wearing protective gear began scooping up weekly samples from the pipes outside th...
How regulators loosened pollution reins during early days of COVID-19 Virus shutdown shows human impact on Earth Replay Video UP NEXT Dozens of power plants, factories and other facilities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed were given latitude to skip pollution-monitoring deadlines, file late reports or release more pollutants during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a review of public documents shows. In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a controversial policy, suspending the enforcement of a swath of environmental laws. Top officials at the agency said the â...