Pollution

"Residents Challenge State-Approved Incinerator In Front Of The Tetons"

"Teton County residents have opened an additional front in their fight with Wyoming officials regarding development of state school trust land near Teton Village, this time challenging the approval of a commercial incinerator that opponents claim poses a grave health, fire and economic risk to locals."

Source: WyoFile, 08/07/2024

Many Oklahoma Drillers Want Contributions To Cleanup Fund Refunded

"Oklahoma’s oil industry pays into a voluntary fund to clean up oil wells, but many drillers opt out. The money that has been refunded to these companies in recent years could have restored an estimated 1,500 orphan well sites."

Source: ProPublica/Capital & Main, 08/07/2024

EPA Issues Emergency Ban Of Weedkiller Dacthal, Citing Risks To Unborn

"The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency suspension of the common weedkiller DCPA, also known as Dacthal, it said Tuesday, the first time the agency has used its emergency suspension authority in 40 years."

Source: CNN, 08/07/2024

"Incarcerated People Are Drinking Unsafe Water in Illinois State Prisons"

"Brian Harrington entered the Illinois Department of Corrections system in 2007 at age 14, sentenced to 25 years in prison. ... He remembers the toilet water being brown—and sometimes the drinking water, too. He recalls the tap water’s sewer smell and the black specks swirling, then settling, in his cup."

Source: Sierra, 08/05/2024

Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Larger Than Average, Larger Than Expected For 2024: NOAA

"Due largely to lagging prevention efforts in the Midwest, the low-oxygen area of the Gulf of Mexico is larger than expected this year, prompting fish and shrimp to flee nearly 4 million acres of habitat and killing off bottom-dwelling species."

Source: The Lens, 08/05/2024

North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for PFAS

"The North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has privately leaned on the state’s powerful Environmental Management Commission to delay critical PFAS rules, emails obtained under state public records law show, including providing members with the résumé of a scientist who has downplayed the toxicity of the compounds."

Source: Inside Climate News, 08/02/2024

"Court Stymies EPA Enforcement Push At ‘Cancer Alley’ Plant"

"A federal appellate court has effectively blocked EPA from swift enforcement of stricter regulations on a Louisiana synthetic rubber manufacturer that has featured prominently in the Biden administration’s campaign to target pollution in the area often dubbed “Cancer Alley.”

Source: E&E News, 08/02/2024

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