Shipping

This photo of the Hernando de Soto Bridge is from photographer “Exothermic”, a user on Flickr, who took this photo while looking from Memphis, Tennessee west towards the Arkansas shore.
As Wikipedia explains:
The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a through arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. [...]

CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (UPI) — Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota have joined forces to seal Illinois waterways from the Great Lakes in a fight against an invasive carp, officials said.
Minnesota Monday joined Ohio and Michigan in a U.S. Supreme Court petition that asks for closure of the Chicago and O’Brien locks — waterways in downtown Chicago [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (UPI) — Utah state officials say they are ready to supervise the movement of low-level radioactive waste received from South Carolina into a specialized landfill.
The 5,408 drums of depleted uranium from the federal government’s Savannah River cleanup site in South Carolina arrived by train Sunday and were to be offloaded [...]

ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Dec. 2 (UPI) — Illinois officials said Wednesday they were conducting a massive fish kill in a shipping canal to prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.
Officials from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said they were dumping gallons of the toxin rotenone into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Romeoville, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25 (UPI) — Landfill operators in Northern California say it will take more than recycling to reduce the need for trash dumps in the coming years.
Tighter environmental regulations have led to some landfills in the San Francisco region to close, but at the same time has required other waste facilities to expand.
“We [...]