"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State"
"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."
Source: Grist, 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA"
"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024
"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?"
"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024
US Targets Emissions of N2O With Eye Toward US-China Climate Agreement
"Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from U.S. chemical plants could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at little cost. Similar plants in China offer a “far bigger prize.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/26/2024
"How ‘Carbon Cowboys’ Are Cashing In On Protected Amazon Forest"
"A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest."
Source: Washington Post, 07/26/2024
"Pesticide Exposure As Risky As Smoking, Study Finds"
"People who don’t farm, but live in US agricultural communities where pesticides are used on farms, face an increased cancer risk as significant as if they were smokers, according to a new study."
Source: The New Lede, 07/26/2024
"Wildfire Smoke Descends Across Central US, Causes 'Unhealthy' Air Quality"
"The sun looked orange as it shined through a thick blanket of wildfire smoke on Tuesday across a large area of North America, including in Denver, and the smoke could spread even farther in the coming days."
"The sun appeared orange and red through a layer of haze on Tuesday morning as a large blanket of wildfire smoke covered part of the central United States and Canada.
Source: AccuWeather, 07/26/2024
What Would a Second Trump Reign Mean for Press Freedom?
The possibility of a second Trump administration has WatchDog Opinion sweating blood over the potential for a serious undermining of the press, whether by choking off access to public records, opening up libel laws that help protect journalists from libel suits by public figures or going to virtual war with the news media. What might be in store if Trump wins back the presidency?
Looking From Space, Researchers Find Pollution Spiking Near E-Commerce Hubs
"Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide."
Source: NYTimes, 07/25/2024
Enviros Challenge New Rules on Toxic Air Plastic and Chemical Pollution
"Environmental groups are teeing up a legal challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on pollution from chemical and plastics plants, citing concerns the EPA relied too heavily on lowball industry estimates as it sized up the risks to people’s health posed by ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene, and other toxic air pollution."
Source: DeSmog, 07/25/2024
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