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March 9, 2023 | NTD Video

Inspectors Generals Testify to House Oversight Committee on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government

Department of the Treasury Acting Inspector General Richard Delmar; Small Business Administration Deputy Inspector General Shelden Shoemaker; and Department of Labor Inspector General Larry Turner testify at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 9 to a hearing held by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee on “Waste, Fraud, and […]

January 11, 2023 | Andrew Thomas

Australian Volunteers Fish out Trash With Magnet

An abundance of garbage and other kinds of waste ends up in the Yarra river in Melbourne, Australia. One fisherman has taken it upon himself to help clean things up, fishing for metal waste in the city’s waterways with a magnet.

March 23, 2022 | Tom Ozimek

Russia ‘Looted and Destroyed’ Chernobyl Radioactive Waste Lab: Ukrainian Officials

Russian forces have destroyed a laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and seized highly radioactive samples, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said in a statement Tuesday that Russian forces “looted and destroyed” the lab, which was opened in 2015 with support from the European Union […]

February 2, 2022 | NTD Newsroom

UK Government Writes Off 8.7 Billion Pounds in PPE Waste

Official records show the shocking scale of waste in the Department for Health and Social Care. It has written off nearly 9 billion pounds ($12 billion) that it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE). Over 1 billion pounds was wasted on useless items or unused items.

June 29, 2021 | Christina Kim

Report: Solar Panels Produce More Waste

Solar panels are an alternative power source designed to be more environmentally friendly. But a recent Harvard Business Report shows the technology may not be as “clean” as hoped.

April 27, 2021 | The Associated Press

25,000 Barrels Suspected to Contain DDT Chemicals Found Off California Coast

SAN DIEGO—Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. The 27,345 “barrel-like” objects were captured in high-resolution images […]

February 10, 2021 | Tom Ozimek

Trump Jr.: Impeachment Push Is a Waste of Time and Reflects a Double Standard

Donald Trump Jr. said the push to impeach former President Donald Trump is both a waste of time and a partisan effort that reflects a double standard.

July 20, 2019 | Samuel Allegri

3 Million Gallons of Raw Sewage Spilled Into Pudget Sound Due to Power Outage, Beaches Close

About 3 million gallons of raw sewage was dumped in the Pudget Sound on Friday morning, July 19.

May 29, 2017 | Edith Wang

UNICEF battling cholera in Yemen

UNICEF is boosting the capacity of the water treatment plant in Sanaa, Yemen, to stop cholera. It is also helping local hospitals fight the disease. A recent cholera outbreak has killed nearly 200 people. It is the worst outbreak since the start of the two-year war. In two years, more than 300 have died, out […]

May 27, 2017 | Feng Xue

World’s largest beach cleanup drive continues in Mumbai

The world’s largest beach cleanup continues on May 27. Volunteers have cleaned about 500,000 tons of trash off Mumbai’s Versova beach in an 85-week operation. The 1.5 mile (2.5 km) stretch of the beach used to be among the dirtiest in Mumbai. Today, it has a whole new look. Most of the trash is gone, […]

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