#Tire Makers Say They’re Not Liable for Waterway #Pollution Because It Takes Years
Multiple states have asked the #EPA to ban a #chemical in tires that has been found to kill wild salmon. https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-makers-say-theyre-not-liable-for-waterway-pollution-because-it-takes-years
Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?
Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...
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"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"
The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.
As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.
But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.
Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.
The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/
Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum!
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The #EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
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Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, #Kentucky, remains polluted.
The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.
#Pollution #Environment #Climate #CleanAir #CleanWater #Cancer #News #Science #Law
Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic #foreverchemicals made by #3m
Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?
Without a blood test, you have no idea.
Why is their toxin running in your veins?
Well, 3M & #dupont kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.
From french fry bags to chairs.
They gaslit their own scientists.
& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE OHIO RIVER
This new book from one of our editors documents the history, industry and pollution of the Ohio River.
#Ohio #Pittsburgh #Cincinnati #OhioRiver #ClimateChange #Pollution #Books #Author #Journalism #Illinois #Conservation #History
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-River-Complete-History-Ohio/dp/B0D6N46CG2/
Parkinson's disease: +90% in 5 years, globally. Main suspect: pesticides like paraquat (prohibited since 2007 in the Netherlands, but not in the US) and its successor glyphosate, not adequately screened for the risk upon approval.
https://nos.nl/l/2525128
#parkinsonsdisease #parkinson #pollution #pesticides
How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform #Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
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In #NewMexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
#News #Petroleum #Southwest #Pollution #Environment #Safety #PublicHealth
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells
Not Pollution. Not Global Warming. Not Corruption. Not Corporations that won't pay taxes.
It's migrants who are at fault for all the troubles in your life. Since you're not man enough to shoulder life's responsibilities, your start picking on a vulnerable group, like migrants, and you start bullying them, like a coward. Try helping people for a change!
#MigrantsRights #HumanRights #Pollution #CorporateGreed #DirtyPoliticians #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
Factory farming is wrong on every possible level; cruel, inhumane, pollution, and health. DAERA in NI are contradicting themselves here - belatedly expressing concerns about pollution, having enabled so many of these factory farms in the last ten years or so; currently putting a plan in place to try and save Lough Neagh and restore it.
At the same time, DAERA have announced an appeal against the court ruling that stops polluting gas caverns being excavated in a Marine protected area at Islandmagee. The company concerned has just bailed out of Harland & Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, as they have no money and lots of bills.
Why is DAERA talking out of both sides of its mouth? Why are they appealing a court ruling against a company with no money? Why pretend they are concerned with pollution in Lough Neagh, while hoping to overturn a ruling against pollution of a protected marine area?
Some years ago, Nichola Mallon of SDLP, reinstated sand dredging in Lough Neagh, despite a court ruling against it.
Lord/Earl of Shaftsbury gets a royalty for every tonne of sand dredged there. His family were gifted the lake bed several generations ago.
#NIPolitics #DAERA #LoughNeagh #Pollution #FactoryFarming #GasCaverns #MarineProtection #FreshWater #Think32 #Shaftsbury
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/new-muck-map-reveals-toxic-waste-levels-from-ni-factory-farms/a461482462.html
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Life Finds A Way.. the gigatons of plastic waste are a food and co2 emission source in waiting.
#BITCOIN 💩 #SHITCOIN #MONEY_LAUNDERING GONE WILD! 🚔 by the #HERTITAGE_FOUNDATION, #AIPAC and dirt bag #JEW #FINK!
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💣 💥 How the #Military_Industrial_Complex Affects OUR #POLLUTION_CRISIS | #ROOT_CAUSE OF MAJOR #POLLUTION IS #MILITARY_EMISSIONS [aka #MAN_MADE POLLUTION ??]
THE WEF (NAZI) FEAR MONGERS CONVENIENTLY LEFT OUT THE ROOT CAUSE 99.99% OF CLIMATE CHANGE = #USA AND #PROXY_WAR = #MILITARY_EMISSIONS!!
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One of the Largest #EMITTERS of #POLLUTION (aka Climate Change) is the #Military and therefore the NEXT STEP is that we NEED TRANSPARENCY of Military Emissions AND THOSE EMISSIONS (POLLUTION) NEED TO BE #REDUCED ...2 decades ago!
What is a real threat is climate change’ — This U.S. Army vet is calling out the military for being one of the ‘largest emitters’ of carbon emissions.
The potential climate impact of the War on Terror is staggering, according to U.S. Army veteran Erik Edstrom. Edstrom is a West Point graduate, author, and former U.S. Army infantry officer who got out of the military after serving Afghanistan to study climate change and finance at Oxford University. Edstrom says the 20-year-long Afghanistan War contributed enough carbon emissions to kill multitudes of people. His assessment is based on studies such as one published in Nature Communications, which estimated that approx 4,400 metric tons of CO2 emissions is enough to kill one person.
The U.S. Department of Defense is required to report its energy use to the Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program. In FY2020, total estimated DoD greenhouse gas emissions based solely on fuel usage data were more than 51 million metric tons of CO2. That figure includes emissions from standard day-to-day operations as well as emissions from non-standard operations such as combat support, law enforcement, emergency response, and spaceflight. Edstrom says there’s more to be concerned with than just operating emissions.
Edstrom says the U.S. Department of Defense budget, which in fiscal year 2021 was more than $703 billion, is bolstered by fear. He thinks Americans’ fears are misguided. Edstrom thinks the future military will be more electric, but says requiring the military-industrial complex to report the full scope of its emissions, beyond just fuel usage, is a crucial step in getting there.
#POLLUTED_CLIMATE #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Military #Army #Earth #Environment #Science #POLLUTION
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When big business decides to “solve” a problem they caused…
Green Islam reframes climate responsibility as a sacred act of community care in Indonesia
As rising seas and vanishing forests remake Indonesia’s landscape, a growing movement rooted in Islam is reshaping climate action as a shared religious and civic duty
#religion #Indonesia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Heatwaves sweep Europe, US; London may touch 40 degrees this summer
Europe and the US are facing extreme heatwaves driven by Omega blocks, heat domes, and climate change, with London possibly nearing 40 degrees Celsius this summer
#Europe #USA #US #UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Housing #Environment #Pollution #Discrimination #Racism
Tires (not straws) are a top source of microplastic #pollution.
As they wear down, toxic particles wash from roads into waterways and harm wildlife. But scientists have found a cheap fix: biofilters made from wood chips and plant waste.
Nations to try again to confront world's 'spiraling' #plastic #pollution
Nations gather in Geneva Tues to try to complete a landmark #treaty aimed at ending the #PlasticPollution crisis that affects every #ecosystem & person on the planet.
It’s the 6th time negotiators are meeting & they hope the last. A key split is whether the treaty should require cutting plastic production, w/powerful #oil-producing nations opposed; most plastic is made from #FossilFuels.
#Climate
https://apnews.com/article/plastic-pollution-treaty-negotiations-united-nations-geneva-615d096e211daa1593c7d0f16745f1ff
The Southwest is rapidly losing groundwater due to overpumping and climate change, study finds
They found the Southwest U.S. – including Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and California – has lost massive amounts of groundwater. That’s due to overpumping by cities and farmers & persistent drought
#Arizona #NewMexico #Nevada #Colorado #Utah #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #pollution #environment #climate
