"The Cost To Capture Carbon? More Water And Electricity"
"A Louisiana power company’s plan to capture climate emissions is raising concerns about the state’s water supplies".
Source: Floodlight, 10/17/2022
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"EPA Loophole Lets 600 Toxic PFAS Chemicals Evade Review, Petition Says"
"A loophole in the federal government’s procedures for reviewing new chemicals has allowed at least 600 so-called forever chemicals into American markets despite evidence they pose serious health risks, according to a petition filed Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 10/17/2022"Ozone Hole Grows This Year, But Still Shrinking In General"
"The Antarctic ozone hole last week peaked at a moderately large size for the third straight year — bigger than the size of North America — but experts say it’s still generally shrinking despite recent blips because of high altitude cold weather."
Source: AP, 10/17/2022DC Sues Velsicol For Allegedly Contaminating Local Rivers With Pesticide
"Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D) on Thursday announced a lawsuit against chemical manufacturer Velsicol, alleging the company contaminated waterways in the city and harmed the health of residents in predominantly minority neighborhoods."
Source: The Hill, 10/17/2022"How Big Companies Shed Their Obligations To Clean Up Old Mines"
"Miles Hatfield was walking into his dining room when he felt the wooden floor give way. His legs dropped hip-deep into water that had pooled under his brick house in the green hills of eastern Kentucky where he had lived for the past 40 years, trapping him in his own floor."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/17/2022"Where the Environment Is on the Ballot — And Where It’s Not"
"In a stark contrast to recent election years, voters in just two states will decide on environmental issues this November. But there’s still a lot at stake."
Source: The Revelator, 10/17/2022EPA Says Louisiana Regulation Of Air Pollution May Violate Civil Rights
"The state Departments of Environmental Quality and Health may be violating federal civil rights laws and regulations by allowing Black people to suffer disproportionate impacts from air pollution in Louisiana's industrial corridor, including an increased risk of cancer, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday."
Source: Nola.com, 10/14/2022"World’s Big Polluters Talk Up Net-Zero With Little to Show"
"When it comes to net-zero, a lot of companies are more talk than action. That’s the conclusion of a new report from Climate Action 100+, an investor alliance with combined assets of more than $68 trillion, which shows that promises by major corporate emitters to achieve net-zero targets are “not matched by the development and implementation of credible decarbonization strategies.”"
Source: Bloomberg, 10/14/2022"California Coastal Commission OKs Desalination Plant in Orange County"
"Less than six months after rejecting a proposal for a major desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved plans for a different, smaller project in Orange County that could serve as a model for future projects."
Source: LA Times, 10/14/2022"US Firms Exploiting Trump-Era Loophole Over Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’"
"Chemical companies are dodging a federal law designed to track how many PFAS “forever chemicals” their plants are discharging into the environment by exploiting a loophole created in the Trump administration’s final months, a new analysis of federal records has found."
Source: Guardian, 10/14/2022Panama: ‘Flag Of Convenience’ For Illegal Fishing And Anonymity At Sea
"The crystal-clear waters of the oceans surrounding Panama hold wealth beyond the abundance of fish. Legal gaps and flexibility in some of the regulations governing fishing activity have become the ideal bait, attracting companies from all over the world that seek to benefit by keeping some of their business deals in the shadows."
Source: Mongabay, 10/14/2022British Cycling’s Partnership With Shell: Tip Of The Sportswashing Iceberg
"British Cycling came under fire this week after it inked a sponsorship deal with oil firm Shell. Conscious Ad Network co-founder Jake Dubbins says the move is yet another example of blatant sportswashing."
Source: The Drum, 10/14/2022"Weak Florida Planning Law Boosted Ian’s Destructive Power"
"Could the [Fort Meyers] region have been spared some of the damage with more aggressive planning and zoning? “Yes,” planners and resilience experts say. Sound land use planning builds stronger communities — physically, socially and politically. Yet Florida lawmakers effectively killed the state’s ability to check urban sprawl a decade ago with the passage of a reform measure called the 2011 Community Planning Act."
Source: E&E News, 10/14/2022"Toxic PFAS Pollution Is Likely At More Than 57,000 US Locations: Report"
"Toxic PFAS have likely contaminated roughly 57,412 locations across the U.S., according to a new study."
Source: EHN, 10/14/2022"Germany’s New Hunger for Coal Dooms a Tiny Village"
"For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms."
Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2022
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