Pollution

Army Corps Opens Lengthy Environmental Review Of Line 5 Tunnel For Comment

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday opened a two-month window for the public to comment on a plan to dig a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac to house Enbridge's controversial Line 5 oil pipeline."

Source: Detroit News, 08/16/2022

"Climate Bill Improves Air Quality Despite Fossil Fuel Benefits"

"Marginalized communities inundated with air pollution could be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the tax and climate bill. Environmentalists say the bill would bring potentially transformative local air quality gains, despite a tradeoff of benefits to the fossil fuel industry."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/12/2022

EPA OKs Plan To Truck Contamination From One Black Community To Another

"Contaminated soil from a Superfund site in Navassa [N.C.] will be shipped to one of three landfills outside Brunswick County, likely moving toxic pollution from one non-white or low-income community to another."

Source: States Newsroom, 08/10/2022

Conceding to Manchin, Bill Exempts Most Oil Industry From Methane Fees

"The U.S. Senate climate bill’s fee on oil and gas industry methane emissions will cover less than half the sector’s releases of the powerful greenhouse gas, thanks to concessions made to win over party holdout Joe Manchin, according to a review of the legislation and interviews with lawmakers that negotiated it."

Source: Reuters, 08/10/2022

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