Project Will Address Risk of Flood-Induced Chemical Spills at Gulf Coast Facilities
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has awarded Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) with a three-year Healthy Ecosystems grant to examine and address the vulnerability of petrochemical facilities along Galveston Bay to flood-induced chemical spills and releases. In a robust partnership with the Galveston Bay Foundation and Texas […]
EPA Approves Use of Dicamba Weed Killer Linked to Cancer
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved for five years the use of two products with the weedkiller dicamba on cotton and soybeans that are resistant to it. It also extended the use of a third product. The agency’s prior approval of dicamba was vacated in court over its impacts on other crops that it can […]
Fracking Has a Radioactive Problem
Harvard scientists have found that fracking is associated with greatly increased radioactive particulate in the air, especially in West Virginia’s dependent petrochemical economy. People who live within about 12 miles of fracking sites are at the highest risk, with ambient radiation as high as 40 percent over the background level. The data comes from 17 […]
Smell in the air being investigated by LDEQ
[FROM WBRZ] It’s one of the worst smells Carlas Williams says she’s ever smelled in her life. “We don’t know what it is,” she said. “It smells like raw sewage; it’s horrible.” Williams says she first started smelling the strong odor in August along Airline Highway near Prescott Road. It crept into her home and […]
OxyContin maker to plead to 3 criminal charges
Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials told The Associated Press. The company will plead guilty to three counts, including conspiracy […]
Energy Dept confirms electric vehicles are better for the environment
[FROM CLEANTECHNICA] The US Department of Energy has put to rest the myth that EVs are worse for the environment than vehicles that use diesel or gas engines. This is something like the 107th time that a reputable organization has concluded this. Sure, regular CleanTechnica readers know that EVs are better, but as with those […]
Island Of Death
[FROM FORBES] The true scale of the devastating Wakashio oil spill is only just becoming apparent to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Thousands of sea creatures have turned up dead around a small coral atoll five miles South West of the Wakashio wreck, called Ilot Brocus. Local environmental NGO, Reef to Roots, were at […]
The Supreme Court will hear a climate change case next year
[from WASHINGTON POST] The Supreme Court will review a key aspect of a big case in which Baltimore is suing Big Oil over damages from climate change. The question the high court plans to consider next year is a narrow procedural one. But its answer could have broad implications for a suite of other suits […]
Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
[from BLOOMBERG GREEN] Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the entire nation of Greece, an analysis of internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg shows, setting one of the largest corporate emitters against international efforts to slow the pace of warming. The drive to expand […]
$215M in BP oil spill money to restore Louisiana marshes
“The Mississippi River created our parish and the many historic ridges of our landscape,” said Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine. “These features protect against storm surge, reduce saltwater intrusion, provide key habitats and also help retain sediment. The marsh west of Venice has been in need of this level of attention for some time, and […]