"The EPA Is Cracking Down On PFAS — But Not In Fertilizer"
"Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals."
Source: Grist, 04/23/2024
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Calif. Communities Fight The Last Toxic Battery Recycling Plant In The West
"Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back."
Source: Grist, 04/23/2024Huge Green Energy Transmission Project Will Cut Through SW Indigenous Lands
"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."
Source: Grist, 04/23/2024"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia"
"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."
Source: DW, 04/23/2024"The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary"
"A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well."
Source: Hakai, 04/23/2024"How Scientists Are Learning To Eavesdrop On The Sounds Of Soil"
"The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dog’s toy repeatedly being chewed."
Source: Guardian, 04/23/2024"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’"
"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2024Biden Shields Millions of Acres in Alaska From Drilling and Mining
"The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope."
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2024"Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms"
"Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment."
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2024"Pennsylvania’s First Proposed Chemical Recycling Plant Cancelled"
"Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week."
Source: EHN, 04/22/2024Earth Day: A Senator More Than 50 Years Ago Got People Fighting For Planet
"Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms."
Source: AP, 04/22/2024"3 Offshore Wind Projects Nixed In New York"
"New York canceled power contracts for three offshore wind projects Friday, citing a turbine maker’s plans to scrap its biggest machines." "It’s a major blow to New York’s climate plan and to President Joe Biden’s energy ambitions."
Source: E&E News, 04/22/2024RFK Jr.’s Onetime Allies In Green Advocacy Call For Him To Drop Out
"Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected."
Source: CNN, 04/22/2024Heat Caused Record-High Rates Of ER Visits In Parts Of US Last Year: CDC
"Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country."
Source: CNN, 04/22/2024Biden Marks Earth Day By Announcing $7 Billion In Solar Power Grants
"President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program."
Source: AP, 04/22/2024
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