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Award-Winning Program Keeps Pharmaceuticals Out of Trash

Author photo Written by Shirley Siluk Gregory
Published on July 2nd, 2008
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Posted in Iowa, Madison, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Melinda at Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license.)What started out as a innovative, new program to keep old medications out of the waste stream in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin, has grown to become an award-winning initiative now used by more than 30 counties in three states.

Special waste manager Jeff Gloyd created the program in which LaCrosse County began collecting old over-the-counter drugs and prescription medications to keep them out of the regular waste stream. Pharmaceuticals thrown out that way have increasingly seeped into natural waterways and, eventually, human drinking water supplies, raising concerns about environmental and health dangers.

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Texas Tops in Wind Power

Author photo Written by Shirley Siluk Gregory
Published on April 9th, 2008
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Posted in California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Washington

Wind turbines at the Mountaineer Wind Energy Center in West Virginia.” (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Codeczero.)Texas comes out on top in the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) 2007 rankings of wind energy leaders, not only in its overall total number of wind turbines but in the amount of new capacity added last year.

Texas wind turbines generated 4,446 megawatts of energy in 2007 — enough to power nearly 1.2 million homes. The state added 1,618 megawatts of new wind power capacity last year, more than double the amount of second-place Colorado.

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