"Coal Dust Is Blowin’ in the Wind"
"That black stuff spilling off railcars is a threat to public health and waterways across the United States".
Source: Sierra, 09/28/2023
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Report Clears Alberta Officials After Oilsands Leak Went Unreported For 9 Months
"A review commissioned by the board of directors at the Alberta Energy Regulator says there are no concerns with the way the organization handled seepage and a subsequent spill at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta."
Source: The Narwhal, 09/28/2023Biden Declares Emergency, Pipeline Planned As Salt Threatens Drinking Water
"The White House declared an emergency Wednesday for four Louisiana parishes threatened by salt intrusion in drinking water and officials warned that barges would be insufficient to deal with the problem on the east bank of New Orleans and Jefferson, prompting an urgent plan to build a pipeline."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/28/2023"Houston OKs $5M To Relocate Residents Near Polluted Union Pacific Yard
"Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases."
Source: AP, 09/28/2023"Industrial Air Pollution Battle Set to Move Beyond Smokestacks"
"Advocates and communities pushing for increased air pollution monitoring at industrial facilities are stretching the limits of long-standing emission control requirements that have largely stopped at smokestacks."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/28/2023"PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Harming Wildlife The World Over: Study"
"While the health impacts of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, or PFAS, are well known in humans, a new study reports how they affect a wide range of wildlife species."
Source: Mongabay, 09/28/2023"Barely Making It: A Conversation With ‘Eight Bears’ Author Gloria Dickie"
"Despite the conservation gains made by iconic bear species like the giant panda and the brown bear, most bear species remain at risk." "Gloria Dickie is an award-winning journalist who has documented the state of the world’s eight remaining bear species in a compelling new book, “Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.”
Source: Mongabay, 09/28/2023"‘Staggering’ Green Growth Gives Hope For 1.5C, Says Global Energy Chief"
"The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog has said."
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2023"‘We Can’t Drink Oil’: How A 70-Year-Old Pipeline Imperils The Great Lakes"
"Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2023"Antarctica Just Hit A Record Low In Sea Ice — By A Lot"
"Sea ice levels around Antarctica just registered a record low — and by a wide margin — as winter comes to a close, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This significant milestone adds worry that Antarctic sea ice may be entering a state of decline brought on by climate change."
Source: Washington Post, 09/27/2023"Can the U.S. Make Solar Panels? This Company Thinks So."
"First Solar kept producing them in Ohio after most of the industry moved to China. President Biden wants many more domestic manufacturers."
Source: NYTimes, 09/27/2023After Summer’s Extreme Weather, More Americans See Climate Change As Culprit
"New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States, is bolstering Americans’ belief that they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change."
Source: AP, 09/27/2023"Cars Are A Major Predator For Wildlife. How Is Nature Adapting To Our Roads?"
"In his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, Goldfarb explains how roads and cars are changing the lives of wildlife all over the world — and how roadkill has created a "crisis for biodiversity.""
Source: NPR, 09/27/2023"How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere"
"Generous federal tax credits are driving the onrush of carbon capture and storage projects being proposed in the U.S. But like a game of whack-a-mole, there’s a chance the planet-warming emissions could seep back up into the atmosphere after they are injected underground."
Source: Floodlight, 09/27/2023"Indigenous Brazilians Celebrate Land Claims Win - But Fight Goes On"
"A few days ago, hundreds of Xokleng Indigenous people gathered around a screen in Ibirama-La Klãnõ territory in southern Brazil to watch the Supreme Court vote on Indigenous land rights."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/27/2023
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