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Study: We need to reduce meat-eating to avoid climate breakdown
This article discusses the need to reduce meat-eating to avoid climate breakdown. A major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population.
Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet […]
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
This article discusses EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico. Unbelievable!!
Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into […]
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Capturing and reusing urban storm water could be a boon for water-stressed cities—if we can find a way to clean it up
This article discusses the problems many cities are facing regarding drinking water. Capturing and reusing urban storm water could be a boon for water-stressed cities—if we can find a way to clean it up. 3 promising new technologies could help send storm water to taps in thirsty cities.
In March, […]
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REUSE OF OIL AND GAS PRODUCED WATER AND POTENTIAL HEALTH IMPACTS
In an Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) podcast, they explore: “Is road spreading of oil and gas wastewater safe?”
Listen to this 12 minute podcast, as Dr. William Burgos, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State University, describes beneficial reuse of produced water, a byproduct of oil […]
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As NM Reservoirs Hit Bottom, Worries Grow Over the Future of water there
This article discusses the worries over the future of the New Mexico Reservoirs as they are being drained. The state’s reservoirs have done their job to help water users survive record drought in 2018. Now they are almost totally dry, and tensions are building over the year ahead. […]
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What Is Coal Ash and Why Is It Dangerous? And a Dam break in NC
The first article discusses what coal ash is and why it is so dangerous. The phrase “coal ash” made headlines this week after a dam on a lake at the site of a power plant in Wilmington, N.C., was breached, allowing the hazardous ash into a river that […]
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The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare
This article discusses the two problems fracking is having with water – turning it into a toxic waste, and using too much of it.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has clearly documented the multiple risks — despite repeated dismissals from the oil and gas industry — that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) poses to drinking water […]
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DeSmog Blog
This blog discusses multiple items this week including exploding PA pipelines; Trump’s attempt to export fracking technology to Argentina; fracking’s water problems; the Atkin Charitable Foundation’s pulling funding from the climate-denying organization, Global Warming Policy Foundation; Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” efforts to push environmental justice; how many of the largest 200 industrial […]
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Florence Washes Away Portion of Coal-Ash Landfill in North Carolina
This article discusses how hurricane Florence has washed away toxic coal ash in NC. Duke Energy, owner of the landfill, says some of the coal ash escaped into a nearby lake. This is another article on the same subject.
Heavy rains from Florence washed out a portion of […]
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Studies: ‘A hot drought’: Warming is driving much of the Colorado River’s decline, scientists say
This article discusses how warming is driving much of the Colorado River’s decline, scientists say.
Since 2000, the amount of water flowing in the Colorado River has dropped 19 percent below the average of the past century, a decline that has left the Southwest on the brink of a water […]
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