Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 14
#US States want to #tax #fossilfuel companies to create #climatechange #superfund
As the costs of #globalwarming rise—in the form of home #insurance premiums, utility bills, health expenses, and record-breaking damages from #extremeweather—local advocates are increasingly pushing states to require that fossil fuel companies contribute to climate “superfunds” that would support mitigation and adaptation.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/states-want-to-charge-fossil-fuel-companies-for-climate-change-superfunds/
States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds

As climate costs rise, states are passing legislation so fossil fuel can pay their share.

Ars Technica
Ashley M. Gjøvik, JDFeb 13

Some very bad stuff happened to me living in #Boston the last couple years and it was getting absolutely terrifying.

Through pure grace & charity someone got me out of there a couple weeks ago. I'm back in the SF Bay but homeless, broke, & sick.

And I'm fighting back. Here's what happened & why as of today, Boston is getting its first NPL #Superfund site.

https://gjovik.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/South-Bay-Boston-Environmental-Complaint-Gjovik-20260213.pdf

Ars Technica NewsJan 29
States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds https://arstechni.ca/AReK #climatechange #oilcompanies #syndication #superfund #Science #Policy
States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds

As climate costs rise, states are passing legislation so fossil fuel can pay their share.

Ars Technica
San Francisco BaykeeperJan 23

Attention, Richmond! The final United Heckathorn Superfund site community meeting is coming up on Wednesday, 1/28.

The discussion will focus on long-term cleanup plans & climate vulnerability. Come with questions for the experts!

Learn more & register: https://usepa.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/G-XAq38nSv2yRZKIC53KPg#/registration

#richmondca #richmond #unitedheckathorn #superfund #superfundsite #superfundcleanup #toxicwaste #bayarea #pollution #climatechange

Meeting Registration - Zoom

News BeepJan 7

South Carolina’s AI and Data Center Push Exposes a Racial Divide

In December, on a two-lane road not far from the ACE Basin, a protected ecosystem and wildlife refuge…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Blackland #datacenters #SouthCarolina #Superfund #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/350520/

Show threadDoomsdaysCWNov 19

#Wikipedia - #UnitedStates
See also: #Superfund

"Perhaps the best-known sacrifice zone in the United States is '#CancerAlley' in #Louisiana, an 85-mile stretch of land along the #MississippiRiver containing over 200 #petrochemical plants. Serious air and water quality violations have been documented since the 1970s, and elevated #cancer risk has been found. The region's population is disproportionately #Black and #LowIncome.

"Commentators including Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco, Robert Bullard and Stephen Lerner have argued that #corporate business practices contribute to producing #SacrificeZones and that these zones most commonly exist in low-income and minority, usually #AfricanAmerican communities. Sacrifice zones are a central topic for the graphic novel #DaysOfDestructionDaysOfRevolt, written by Hedges and illustrated by Sacco.

"In 2012, Hedges stated that examples of sacrifice zones included #PineRidge, South Dakota and #CamdenNJ. In 2017 a #WestCalumet public housing project in East Chicago, Indiana built at the former site of a lead smelter needed to be demolished and soil replaced to bring the area up to residential standards, displacing 1000 residents. In 2014, Naomi Klein wrote that 'running an economy on energy sources that release poisons as an unavoidable part of their extraction and refining has always required sacrifice zones."

Related link:
The Spread of Sacrifice Zones
By David Swanson, June, 2012
https://cdn.countercurrents.org/swanson090612.htm

#BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
#GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

The Spread of Sacrifice Zones By David Swanson

four.wheel.travel has moved!Oct 28

King City Asbestos Processing Plant near King City, California. 2007 vs. today. Asbestos processing operations were discontinued in 2002, so the plant must have been razed between 2002 and 2007.

I bet that one tree could tell some tales.

Courtesy Google Maps Street View.

#GoogleStreetView #ThenAndNow #KingCityCalifornia #CattlemenRoad #LandscapeChange #IndustrialSite #TimeComparison #AsbestosPlant #EPA #SuperFund

California Politics HuddleSep 12, 2025

CPH Daily Bulletin 9/11/2025

#California Environmental Groups Decry Worst Legislative Year in Memory

https://davisvanguard.org/2025/09/california-environmental-deregulation-2023/

#Environment #Pollution #SuperFund #Abundance

California Environmental Groups Decry Worst Legislative Year in Memory - Davis Vanguard

California's Democratic leadership has been criticized for passing measures that roll back environmental protections, with high-profile bills like SB 131 and SB 237 being negotiated behind closed doors and with little public input or hearings.

Davis Vanguard
hambitiousAug 25, 2025
August 23, 2013: More rocks. Then some more rocks. The trail goes by a Superfund site, caused by the pollution from an old factory in the valley. I'm told the mountain used to be totally bare, but with I hiked through, stuff was growing. Pretty sad how we mess up our environment.
In the gap I found a comfortable rock and waited for my aunt. She picked me up and brought me to her place, despite how bad I smelled. The shower was great, though I'm not sure my cousins recognized me at first.


#AppalachianTrail #ThruHike #hiking #AT #sobo #Pennsylvania #at2013 #outdoors #AppalachianTrail2013 #superfund
San Francisco BaykeeperAug 8, 2025
As the Richmond Shoreline Alliance has pointed out, a full cleanup of the United Heckathorn Superfund site is needed to resolve the problem at its source--and avoid compounding consequences later https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/05/cleanup-of-toxic-richmond-waterway-creates-divisions/
#richmondca #richmond #pollution #superfund #superfundsite #epa
Cleanup of toxic Richmond waterway creates divisions

Exactly how the EPA plans to remove the toxins from the area isn’t yet known.

The Mercury News