remote Hawaiian island Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/tag/remote-hawaiian-island/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:01:48 +0000 de-DE hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://oneearth-oneocean.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-oeoo-logo-unterzeile-blau-1-32x32.jpg remote Hawaiian island Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/tag/remote-hawaiian-island/ 32 32 EPA to study hazards of plastic debris on remote Hawaiian island https://oneearth-oneocean.com/upcoming-studies-2014/2013/epa-to-study-hazards-of-plastic-debris-on-remote-hawaiian-island/ https://oneearth-oneocean.com/upcoming-studies-2014/2013/epa-to-study-hazards-of-plastic-debris-on-remote-hawaiian-island/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:01:48 +0000 http://www.oneearth-oneocean.com/kb/?p=111 http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-plastic-debris-hawaiian-island-epa-superfund-20131118,0,4102722.story EPA to study hazards of plastic debris on remote Hawaiian island By Tony Barboza November 19, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study a remote island used as an airstrip in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands that is often littered with plastic debris, the first step in a process that could eventually place it on the list of the country’s most hazardous sites. In a letter to an environmental group, the agency said it will study Tern Island, part of a coral reef atoll about 550 miles northwest of Honolulu that is a breeding ground for millions of seabirds. The decision came in response to a petition filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity. The group asked the EPA to study listing a 1,200-mile span of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and part of the so-called Pacific Garbage Patch as a federal Superfund site because of the amount of plastic debris that floats on ocean currents and washes ashore. “That was a sort of big ask,” said Emily Jeffers, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. But she called the agency’s decision to study Tern Island “an incredibly important first step towards understanding the hazards plastic pollution poses to wildlife.”

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]]> http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-plastic-debris-hawaiian-island-epa-superfund-20131118,0,4102722.story EPA to study hazards of plastic debris on remote Hawaiian island By Tony Barboza November 19, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study a remote island used as an airstrip in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands that is often littered with plastic debris, the first step in a process that could eventually place it on the list of the country’s most hazardous sites. In a letter to an environmental group, the agency said it will study Tern Island, part of a coral reef atoll about 550 miles northwest of Honolulu that is a breeding ground for millions of seabirds. The decision came in response to a petition filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity. The group asked the EPA to study listing a 1,200-mile span of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and part of the so-called Pacific Garbage Patch as a federal Superfund site because of the amount of plastic debris that floats on ocean currents and washes ashore. “That was a sort of big ask,” said Emily Jeffers, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. But she called the agency’s decision to study Tern Island “an incredibly important first step towards understanding the hazards plastic pollution poses to wildlife.”

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