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WV congressional delegation not on same page on legislation targeting PFAS
Charleston Gazette-Mail: WV congressional delegation not on same page on legislation targeting PFAS.
hey’re in our clothes, our food and our blood. We made them virtually indestructible, but there’s evidence that they can destroy us.
They’re per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), industrial chemicals whose extensive contamination and deleterious health effects have […]
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The Daily Climate, April 8, 2021
Articles include: Marine life can’t survive at the equator; Black climate agenda; Biden to court – dismiss children’s lawsuit; ghost forests and sea level rise; Enbridge pipeline & Michigan; handling the climate crisis; nuclear heating plant; lightning & the Arctic; Report: Canadian wood pellet industry; EPA reverses trump; polar […]
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Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism
The Guardian: Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism. Environmental Protection Agency launches crackdown on pollution that disproportionately affects people of color.
Michael Regan, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to revive the effort to confront environmental racism […]
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DeSmogBlog, April 4, 2021
Articles include: fossil fuel legacy & white supremacy; clean energy lowering costs impact; SW US fire threats caused by heat; Piney Point phosphate plant disaster; EPA dismisses trump appointees.
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The Daily Climate, April 1,2021
Articles include: Climate change and financial markets; Report: O&G warning – diversify; Tackling climate change will create jobs; Biden and electric vehicles; Rainforests will become savannas – study and study. EU climate plan and Asia; greening the […]
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The Daily Climate, March 25, 2021
Articles include: midwestern winemakers; Mauritanian protestor; Netflix bingeing; Biden halted O&G leases; China’s coal spree; Report: big banks financing O&G drilling; Democrats plan to revive Obama-era climate change rule; riders abandoning buses & trains; new climate change technology; sea ice in Northern Labrador; EPA to review Trump’s attacks on […]
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The Daily Climate, April 2, 2021
Articles include: Birds versus bees: Here are the winners and losers in the great pesticide trade-off; How climate change is stunting farm production; California’s rooftop solar program collides with equity concerns; Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds; Keep your Whole Foods gift […]
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Lawmakers must protect Virginians from the harms of gold mining
Virginia Mercury: Lawmakers must protect Virginians from the harms of gold mining.
In 1990, heavy rainfall overpowered a holding dam at the Brewer Gold Mine in Jefferson, South Carolina, where gold had been pulled from the earth going back to 1828. The spill sent 10 million gallons of the cyanide solution […]
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The Daily Climate, March 18, 2921
Articles include: Republicans warn Federal Reserve against assessing climate risk in financial system; The EPA restores climate change website deleted under Trump; Study: Ocean emissions from bottom trawling are equivalent to global aviation; Scientists claim feeding cows seaweed could slash their methane emissions by a staggering 82 percent; […]
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EPA finalizes rule curbing interstate pollution from 12 states
Politico: EPA finalizes rule curbing interstate pollution from 12 states. The rule will require power plants in the 12 states to optimize their use of already-installed pollution controls for 2021. EPA finalized a rule (Reg. 2060-AU84) on Monday to curb nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants in 12 states ahead of […]
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