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Q&A: What Michigan’s move to shut down Enbridge Line 5 means
Bridge Michigan discusses Q&A: What Michigan’s move to shut down Enbridge Line 5 means.
The clock is ticking to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, following Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s announcement Friday that she has given Enbridge 180 days to stop running petroleum products through the pipeline.
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Study: No place is safe: Tiny bit of plastic pollute the snow, streams on iconic Mount Everest
Environmental Health News discusses No place is safe: Tiny bit of plastic pollute the snow, streams on iconic Mount Everest. “No one had ever looked at microplastics on Everest before—the scary thing is we found microplastic in every single snow sample that we took.”
Scientists have found microplastics hidden in […]
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Studies: plastic pollution killing marine life
The New York Times discusses These Items in Your Home Are Harming America’s Sea Animals. A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife. How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades of research and gruesome images of
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DeSmogBlog, November 20, 2020
Articles include: Pesticide Companies Marketing; Automakers – Human Rights and Climate; Climate Deniers hate EVs; Norway, lawsuit, and Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling; Climate Disinformation Database: FTI Consulting.
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NYT Climate Fwd., November 18, 2020
Articles include: trump’s arctic drilling; city water problems and solutions; big oil influence campaigns; pipeline closing; Greta Thunberg; methane leaks.
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Japan faces another Fukushima disaster crisis
Climate News Network discusses why Japan faces another Fukushima disaster crisis. A plan to dump a million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima disaster off Japan is alarming local people.
The Japanese government has an unsolvable problem: what to do with more than a million tonnes of water contaminated with […]
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Toxic synthetic ‘forever chemicals’ are in our water and on our plates
PBS.org discusses how toxic synthetic ‘forever chemicals’ are in our water and on our plates. What makes PFAS chemicals extremely useful—and extremely hard to get rid of—are the bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms that are almost impossible to break.
It was the start of the 2016 growing season when […]
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Report: U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation
National Geographic discusses how the U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds. The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.
When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month […]
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Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health Hazard
Yale Environment 360 discusses Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health Hazard. From African shantytowns to the backstreets of China’s cities, small-scale businesses that recycle the lead from auto batteries are proliferating. Experts say the pollution from these unregulated operations is a lethal threat – […]
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Study: Baby bottles can shed millions of microplastic particles: What parents need to know.
Today discusses how Baby bottles can shed millions of microplastic particles: What parents need to know. Pediatricians say parents would be right to be alarmed by the study findings.
Plastic baby bottles are light-weight and convenient — no wonder they make up more than 80% of the […]
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