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Mount St. Helens Erupts
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Volcano-cam 
Volcanic
ash can travel hundreds
to thousands of miles
downwind from a volcano.
Fresh volcanic ash
is gritty, abrasive, sometimes
corrosive,
and always unpleasant.
Although ash is not highly
toxic, it can
trouble infants, the elderly
and those with
respiratory ailments.
In ashy areas, use
dust masks and eye protection.
If you
don't have a dust mask,
use a wet handkerchief.
Small ash particles can
abrade the front
of the eye. The volcanic
gases that pose the greatest
potential
hazard are sulfur dioxide,
carbon dioxide, and hydrogen
fluoride. Volcanic eruptions: preparing and responding |
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Program
Great Lakes Collaboration
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Members of the President's Cabinet, the Great
Lakes Governors, the Great Lakes Congressional
Delegation, Mayors and Tribal Leaders will meet
December 3rd in Chicago to forge an intergovernmental
partnership and develop a coordinated strategy
to further protect and restore the Great Lakes.
The Interagency Task Force, chaired by EPA, is
helping to convene this meeting to establish a long term,
multi-jurisdictional collaboration to address key environmental issues.
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$9.1
million to protect Great Lakes from Asian
carp Oct. 13 - EPA and
the Army Corps of Engineers announced funding
for construction of an electric barrier to
keep Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes,
to be completed by February 2005. Asian carp
are a significant threat to the Great Lakes because they are large,
extremely prolific, and consume vast amounts of food.
CITGO
to reduce refinery emissions Oct. 6 - CITGO agreed to spend $320
million to reduce hazardous air emissions
from six refineries in five states. This
settlement of an EPA enforcement action will
reduce harmful air emissions by more than
30,000 tons per year.
