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Fractured: Distrustful of frackers, abandoned by regulators
The Daily Climate: Fractured: Distrustful of frackers, abandoned by regulators. “I was a total cheerleader for this industry at the beginning. Now I just want to make sure no one else makes the same mistake I did. It has ruined my life.”
his is part 3 of our 4-part series, […]
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Report: How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History
New Republic: How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History. After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.
Last year, on […]
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Study: Fractured: The body burden of living near fracking
Inside Climate News: Fractured: The body burden of living near fracking. EHN.org scientific investigation finds western Pennsylvania families near fracking are exposed to harmful chemicals, and regulations fail to protect communities’ mental, physical, and social health.
It’s been 12 years since fracking reshaped the American energy landscape and much of […]
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Fractured: Harmful chemicals and unknowns haunt Pennsylvanians surrounded by fracking
Daily Climate: Fractured: Harmful chemicals and unknowns haunt Pennsylvanians surrounded by fracking. We tested families in fracking country for harmful chemicals and revealed unexplained exposures, sick children, and a family’s “dream life” upended.
This is part 1 of our 4-part series, “Fractured,” an investigation of fracking chemicals […]
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Plastic is part of the carbon cycle and needs to be included in climate calculations
The Conversation: Plastic is part of the carbon cycle and needs to be included in climate calculations.
Plastic pollution and climate change are two prominent environmental issues of our time. Plastic was once thought to be a miracle invention that made life simpler for families.
But just as our exploitation of fossil […]
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DeSmogBlog, February 27, 2021
Articles include: Racial Equity & Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community; Exxon & Its Bad Fossil Fuel Investments; Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail; Aquaculture in the US; Texas Refineries’ Release Pollutants During Storm; Rejoining the […]
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Study: Glyphosate weed killer releases a banned pesticide into islands’ waters through soil erosion
C&EN: Glyphosate weed killer releases a banned pesticide into islands’ waters through soil erosion. Use of the herbicide on banana plantations explains chlordecone pollution off the coasts of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The toxic pesticide chlordecone was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies until 1993 but continued to pollute the […]
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Study: Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence Of Cancer
The Intercept: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP CHARGES EPA WITH IGNORING EVIDENCE OF CANCER. The EPA downplayed the risks of the pesticide Telone, according to a complaint filed with the agency’s inspector general.
AN ASSESSMENT OF a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency issued last year is fraudulent, according to a complaint the environmental group Public […]
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Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts
E&E News: Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts.
As temperatures plunged below freezing and much of Texas’ power grid collapsed last week, Ana Parras braved the pitch-black night to check on friends in the southeast Houston neighborhood of Manchester.
The majority-Latino, low-income community sits along the Houston Ship Channel, bordered by […]
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Tap water, household products and cat contaminated by toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
The Guardian: I tested my tap water, household products and cat for toxic ‘forever chemicals’. After spending several months reporting on the PFAS crisis, I had an alarming realization: taco night might be poisoning me.
I learned that the type of nonstick pans that I used to fry the fish usually […]
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