"Outdoor Brands Phase Out PFAS, “Forever Chemicals,” Ahead Of State Bans"
"Some products with PFAS — a common treatment for water and stain resistant outdoor apparel — will soon be illegal to sell in many states."
Source: EHN, 05/09/2023
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Project Documents D.C. Region’s Dying Ash Trees
"The clock is ticking for the few healthy ash tree groves still in existence around D.C."
Source: WAMU/NPR, 05/09/2023Can Ethanol Fuel Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
"The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics."
Source: Grist, 05/09/2023EPA Promises Action On Puerto Rico Coal Ash. Residents Tired Of Waiting
"Biden’s EPA offers support to Guayama residents after decades of environmental injustice, but residents say they won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed and all its coal ash removed."
Source: Energy News Network, 05/09/2023Puppy Mills: Iowa Still Leads The Nation In Both Violators And Citations
"Iowa continues to lead the nation in the number of regulatory violations committed by puppy mills."
Source: States Newsroom, 05/09/2023"Charles Is Not Your Climate King"
"When Queen Elizabeth II died September 2022, her son Charles III became the new king of England. Immediately, headlines advised on how he could brand himself as the climate king."
Source: Earther, 05/09/2023"Wanted: Lost Crab Traps. Reward: $5"
"Crab traps work a bit like Roach Motels: crabs crawl in, but they don’t crawl out. That’s good news for crab fishers’ chances of pulling in a good catch, but when traps get lost at sea, they become a menace to all sorts of animals."
Source: Hakai, 05/09/2023Almost 30,000 People Displaced As Alberta Continues Battling Wildfires
"A change in weather conditions has helped firefighters fight the wildfires that have forced thousands of Albertans to flee their homes this past week, officials from the Alberta Emergency Management Agency and Alberta Wildfire said Sunday."
Source: CBC News, 05/08/2023"Fire Burns For Third Day At Shell Texas Chemical Plant"
"A fire burned for a third day on Sunday at Shell Plc's chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, a company spokesperson said."
Source: Reuters, 05/08/2023"Federal Pipeline Agency Rolls Out Methane Proposal"
"Federal pipeline regulators Friday formally proposed their first regulations to crack down on natural gas leaks from pipelines to reduce pollution and the effects of climate change."
Source: E&E News, 05/08/2023"West Oakland Faces A Test: Undoing Decades Of Environmental Injustice"
"Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent white neighborhoods were spared the traffic and toxics."
Source: Washington Post, 05/08/2023"Oil Boom Transforms Guyana, Prompting A Scramble For Spoils"
"ANN’S GROVE, Guyana — Villagers in this tiny coastal community lined up on the soggy grass, leaned into the microphone and shared their grievances as someone in the crowd yelled, “Speak the truth!”"
Source: AP, 05/08/2023"Circuit Panel’s Halt of EPA Ozone Rule Threatens National Limits"
"A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruling to halt an EPA decision to disapprove key ozone plans in Texas and Louisiana foreshadows similar decisions across regional circuit courts that threaten to upend established precedent."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/08/2023Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant
"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/08/2023Tribe Was Barred From Cultural Burning — Then A Fire Hit Their Community
"The land near Yosemite National Park had been tended by Irene Vasquez’s family for decades. They took care of their seven acres by setting small fires to thin vegetation and help some plants to grow. But the steep, chaparral-studded slopes surrounding the property hadn’t seen fire since Vasquez and fellow members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation were barred from practicing cultural burning on a wider scale some 100 years before."
Source: LA Times, 05/08/2023
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