"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias"
"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/23/2024
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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools
"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."
Source: Washington Post, 12/23/2024Activists Sue NOAA For Images Of Dead Orcas Entangled By Fishing Boats
"Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast."
Source: AP, 12/23/2024Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues
"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."
Source: AP, 12/23/2024Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks
"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"
Source: ProPublica, 12/23/2024Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals
"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."
Source: CBS News, 12/23/2024WH Scientists Call For National Effort To Curb Groundwater Depletion
"Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges that call for the federal government to play a larger role."
Source: LA Times, 12/23/2024"Chart: Wind And Solar Overtook Coal On The US Grid In 2024"
"In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024. The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while coal contributed 15 percent, according to data from think tank Ember."
Source: Canary Media, 12/23/2024Gas Leaks Must Be Fixed By Utilities In New Proposed PHMSA Rule
"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."
Source: NPR, 12/23/2024"Trump Vows To Rename Denali As Mount Mckinley"
"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901."
Source: Reuters, 12/23/2024EPA Approves California Electric Car Mandate. Will Trump Try To Revoke It?
"The Biden administration today approved California’s groundbreaking mandate phasing out new gas-powered cars just weeks before the incoming Trump administration poses a threat of overturning electric vehicle and climate rules."
Source: CalMatters, 12/20/2024"Biden Declares Tougher 2035 Emissions Targets Weeks Before Trump Return"
"Joe Biden has announced tougher targets on the US’s carbon dioxide emissions for the next decade, in a defiant final gesture intended as a “capstone” on his legacy on the climate."
Source: Guardian, 12/20/2024Carcinogen From Goodyear Plant Is Invading Niagara Falls Neighborhoods
"Recent computer modeling shows that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, is releasing a bladder carcinogen into nearby neighborhoods at levels up to seven times the state’s safety guideline."
Source: Public Health Watch, 12/20/2024How A Public University Courted The Gas Industry Despite Climate Impacts
"As the liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom gained momentum in southwest Louisiana, one public institution of higher learning, McNeese State University, courted the industry to help launch a new LNG Center of Excellence, hired a director doubling as an LNG industry lobbyist, and approached federal regulators to co-locate their own research center at the university, according to emails obtained via public records requests by DeSmog and The Guardian."
Source: DeSmog/Guardian, 12/20/2024Petrochemical Plants Send Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into Waterways
"Nearly 70 petrochemical companies across the nation, including 30 in Texas, are sending millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year due to weak or nonexistent regulations, according to a report published by the watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project."
Source: EHN, 12/20/2024
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