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Studies: Plastics and oceans – 4 articles
Futurity: DISCARDED COVID MASKS AND GLOVES ARE REALLY BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. When it comes to COVID-19 masks, gloves, and disinfectants, the transformation from protection to pollution happens quickly, but the damage can last for centuries.
Vox: Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is “missing”. A lot of it is […]
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Are Compostable Bags Really Compostable? What You Need to Know This Int’l Compost Awareness Week
Green Matters: Are Compostable Bags Really Compostable? What You Need to Know This Int’l Compost Awareness Week. May 2 through May 8, 2021 marks International Compost Awareness Week — an annual week-long educational initiative to get more people composting their food scraps. Composting is a fantastic way to reduce your environmental […]
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End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health
StatNews: End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health.
The adoption of safe, clean, renewable energy is an essential element for sustaining the U.S. economy and maintaining the health of its citizens. There are many paths to these goals. Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is not one […]
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Blowing up mountains to mine coal
Salon.com: We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia. The dying coal industry’s last gasp is “mountaintop removal” mining — and it’s even worse than it sounds.
On Earth Day this year, as President Biden assembled world leaders to a climate summit to focus on […]
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COMMENTARY: Cartons pave the way to fix struggling recycling system
Free Lance-Star: COMMENTARY: Cartons pave the way to fix struggling recycling system. SOME municipalities across the U.S. are struggling to sustain recycling programs that maximize the materials that can be placed in curbside bins. From New York to Washington State, Alabama to Utah, Arkansas to Arizona, and numerous points in […]
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The Daily Climate, April 28, 2021
Articles include: lumber shortage; disabilities and natural disasters; California wildfire season; Study: cut methane emissions quickly; flooding in Michigan; climate vote in Senate; Study: poor communities affected by climate change; low carbon fuel standard; money to modernize grid; Fukushima; Ford making electric vehicles; Study: sea level […]
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The Daily Climate, April 26, 2021
Articles include: wood pellet loophole in Paris Accord; bike licensing and justice; hydrogen and the grid; California oil spillers and the law; jobs; US and China and Clean technology; electric trucks; Canada’s melting permafrost; Report: halting methane emissions.
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DeSmogBlog, April 24, 2021
Articles include: Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?; The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate; Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit; Oxford University Has Pledged to Divest from Fossil Fuels;
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Above the Fold – Children’s News, April 22, 2021
Articles include: Report: Lead in Pennsylvania water; tougher air pollution limits needed; Report: climate’s impact on children’s health and justice; Report: dogs and human fertility; Study: father’s drinking and children’s health; North Pole pollution; lead pipes in Buffalo, NY; climate change guide for kids;
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There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About
Huffington Post: There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About. In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.
Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of […]
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