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"8th Circuit Delivers Climate Blow To Big Oil"

"Oil and gas companies on Thursday lost what may have been their best shot at creating disagreement between federal appeals courts — a key consideration for Supreme Court review — on a jurisdictional issue that has the potential to quash a broad set of climate challenges launched by local governments that want industry to pay up for the impacts of a warming planet."

Source: E&E News, 03/29/2023

Baltimore Blocks Treatment Of Contaminated Water From Ohio Train Derailment

"An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer system, the latest challenge to cleaning the train derailment site amid opposition from communities unwilling to accept waste."

Source: Washington Post, 03/29/2023

Plastics Cause Health Issues From Cancer To Birth Defects: Study

"Plastics are responsible for wide-ranging health impacts including cancers, lung disease and birth defects, according to the first analysis of the health hazards of plastics across their entire life cycle – from extraction for manufacturing, through to dumping into landfill and oceans."

Source: Guardian, 03/29/2023

Lethal Supercell Storms To Hit South More Often As World Warms: New Study

"America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee."

Source: AP, 03/28/2023

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