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DeSmogBlog, June 15, 2019
This blog discusses the following:
Following Carcinogen Data Fiasco, Pressure Grows on Massachusetts to Revoke Enbridge Facility Permit
US Poised to Approve Shipping LNG by Rail for Export With No New Safety Rules
House to Debate Amendment With Big Implications for Expanding Petrochemical Industry
Australia’s Controversial Adani Coal Mine […]
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Recycling Plastics – is it effective?
This article discusses whether recycling plastics is the solution to that problem. No, it isn’t. ‘Recycling Is Like a Band-Aid on Gangrene’.
The Newfoundland lab, the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), interrogates what Max Liboiron believes to be systemic problems in science. CLEAR conducts its research on microplastics […]
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Study and multiple articles on children’s health
This Yale Climate Connection article discusses why climate change could make children’s allergies worse. More kids could wind up in emergency rooms, new research finds. Some 35,000 to 60,000 U.S. emergency department visits for asthma each year may be linked to oak, birch, and grass pollen, according to
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DeSmog Blog – June 8, 2019
This DeSmogBlog weekly posting addresses:
A March Through Heat, Felony Threats, and Pollution Brings Louisiana’s Cancer Alley to Governor’s Attention
Will Ohio River Get Optional Pollution Limits as New Fracking-Reliant Plastics Industry Moves in?
Exclusive: Enbridge Is Behind This Front Group Pushing the Company’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project
Congressional […]
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WE’RE BUYING INTO A GIANT LIE ABOUT PLASTIC
This Vice News article discusses how Americans are buying into a great lie about plastic.
The Philippines doesn’t want to recycle your low-grade plastic scrap anymore. Neither does China. Vietnam’s not thrilled about taking it either.
Earlier this week, Malaysia became the latest country to join the burgeoning trend: Governments across […]
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DeSmog Blog, week of 5/23/2019
This week’s blog includes discussions about transporting fracked gas via trucks instead of pipelines; new laws in Louisiana that criminalize pipeline protests; Trump, DOJ, and “clean coal”; shipping companies and GHGs; a report on plastics; Biden and his Dominion Energy connection; Warren Buffet and fracking; FER$C and its pipeline […]
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Study: Plastics – Six articles/reports on how damaging plastics are
This article discusses the impact on sea anemones from global warming and microplastics – it’s not good. Sea anemones affected by bleaching retain microplastics longer than healthy ones. Climate change and plastic pollution are major threats to all marine life, from minuscule crustaceans to gigantic whales. Although many experiments […]
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Plastic Pollution
This Audubon Society article discusses how plastics are harming birds. Fishing line snares vast numbers of wildlife each year—a problem birders and outdoor groups are trying to combat.
This article discusses how 180 countries — except US — agree to plastic waste agreement. After 12 days of negotiations under the auspices […]
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Baby fish have started eating plastic. We haven’t yet seen the consequences
This National Geographic article discusses baby fish eating plastic. We haven’t yet seen the consequences. Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain.
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Report: DISCARDED: Communities on the Frontlines of the Global Plastic Crisis
This GAIA article discusses a report on how some countries are being inundated with plastic waste from other countries.
Another No-Burn article also discusses the same problem here.
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