Rising Natural Gas Prices Help Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources
"Natural gas prices have surged, reverberating across the energy economy."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/24/2021
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EPA Issues Rule To Sharply Reduce Use Of HFCs, Driver Of Climate Change
"The Biden administration on Thursday finalized its first major regulation to directly limit greenhouse gases, part of an effort to show America’s progress on global warming before a crucial climate summit in Glasgow in November."
Source: NYTimes, 09/24/2021
"Nitrogen: The Environmental Crisis You Haven’t Heard Of Yet"
"The creation of synthetic fertilizers in the early 20th century was a turning point in human history, enabling an increase in crop yields and causing a population boom. But the overuse of nitrogen and phosphorus from those fertilizers is causing an environmental crisis, as algae blooms and oceanic “dead zones” grow in scale and frequency."
Source: Mongabay, 09/23/2021
EPA To Cut Greenhouse Gases Thousands Of Times More Powerful Than CO2
"The Biden administration will finalize its first new climate rule Thursday, slashing the use of greenhouse gases warming the planet at a rate hundreds to thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide."
Source: Washington Post, 09/23/2021
"Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers"
"As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/22/2021
"New Evidence of Corruption at EPA Chemicals Division"
"Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have provided The Intercept with new information showing that senior staff have made chemicals appear safer — sometimes dodging restrictions on their use — by minimizing the estimates of how much is released into the environment."
Source: The Intercept, 09/21/2021
‘Larger Than Usual’: This Year’s Ozone Layer Hole Bigger Than Antarctica
"The hole in the ozone layer that develops annually is “rather larger than usual” and is currently bigger than Antartica, say the scientists responsible for monitoring it."
Source: Guardian, 09/17/2021
"Formosa Plastics To Pay Nearly $3 Mln To Settle Air Pollution Charges"
"The U.S. subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Corporation will pay $2.85 million to settle civil charges it violated federal air pollution laws after a series of fires and explosions at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Texas injured some of its workers, the Justice Department said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 09/14/2021
"Ruth Etzel Speaks Out Ahead of EPA Whistleblower Hearing"
"The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning."
Source: Guardian, 09/13/2021
"EPA To Propose First-Ever 'Forever Chemical' Discharge Limits"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday that it will propose a rule to set the first-ever limits on the amount of chemicals called PFAS can be discharged."
Source: The Hill, 09/09/2021
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