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It appears Republicans and Democrats may have found something to agree on – foam-based docks don’t belong in New York’s waterways. Earlier this year, state Sen. Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, introduced S ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Every spring, as scores of volunteers scour the shorelines of the Lake of the Ozarks looking for trash, much of their haul is chunks of floating, dingy blobs. Tons of the stuff -- ...
ROGERS — Dock owners on Beaver Lake still have time to remove old extruded polystyrene - commonly called Styrofoam - flotation and replace it with encapsulated floatation, said U.S. Army Corps of ...
Everywhere they look, Pacific Northwest scientists find teeny-tiny plastic pollution. Broken down particles are in our water, falling out of the air, in salmon, shellfish and in our own bodies.
HUDSON, Fla. — Floridians face a potential health hazard because of Styrofoam in their water, according to Pasco County environmental engineer Marc Rhodes. Rhodes says it is his new year’s resolution ...
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ROGERS — Dock owners on Beaver Lake and similar U.S. Army Corps of Engineers properties still have years to replace Styrofoam with encapsulated flotation, park ranger Alan Bland said. The nationwide ...
Every year, the massive Yachts Miami Beach event showcases hundreds of yachts along a ten-block stretch west of Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach each winter. All those boats require temporary docks to tie ...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Kevin Carrigan has a 20-foot-long piece of floating dock tide to his own dock on Salt Run in St. Augustine. That piece dock broke apart from a nearby marina during Hurricane ...
The first major winter storm of the year in Lake Tahoe brought more than just snow to its sandy shores — it also spread hundreds of thousands of pieces of polystyrene into the lake. The plastic foam ...
When Sallie Dickinson and her family go out to enjoy the sandy shore near their Topsail Island home, they are always mindful to be stewards for the beach by picking up litter. "That's kind of our rule ...