12 chemical plants in China and the US emit a potent climate pollutant with collective emissions equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 31 million automobiles, a new report finds. The emissions of nitrous oxide--a greenhouse gas 273 times more potent than CO2--could be slashed at little cost through proven, low cost pollution controls. My latest for @insideclimatenews
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Demonstrators marched on EPA headquarters in Washington on Tuesday demanding the agency deliver on pledges of more stringent climate and clean air regulations. Policy experts say stronger, new rules may be imminent. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042023/epa-protest-climate-clean-air/ My latest for @insideclimatenews
Environmental Advocates Protest Outside EPA Headquarters Over the Slow Pace of New Climate and Clean Air Regulations - Inside Climate News
Update: The EPA released a proposed rule on April 5 to strengthen the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants. As supporters and opponents of Donald Trump traded chants of “Lock him up” and “USA” outside a Manhattan courtroom during the arraignment of the former president, protesters outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in […]
At a protest on Tuesday–no, not that one–demonstrators outside EPA headquarters in DC had a modest request for an agency that has fallen behind on pledges of tighter climate and clean air regulations: “Do your job.” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042023/epa-protest-climate-clean-air/
Environmental Advocates Protest Outside EPA Headquarters Over the Slow Pace of New Climate and Clean Air Regulations - Inside Climate News
Update: The EPA released a proposed rule on April 5 to strengthen the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants. As supporters and opponents of Donald Trump traded chants of “Lock him up” and “USA” outside a Manhattan courtroom during the arraignment of the former president, protesters outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in […]
So lucky to work alongside so many, amazingly-talented reporters as @insideclimatenews builds out its Southeast, Midwest, Texas and Mountain West news networks. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042023/amy-green-joins-inside-climate-news-to-cover-florida-regional-and-local-networks-expand-in-the-southeast-midwest-texas-and-mountain-west/
Amy Green Joins Inside Climate News to Cover Florida; Regional and Local Networks Expand in the Southeast, Midwest, Texas and Mountain West - Inside Climate News
Amy Green has joined Inside Climate News as a reporter covering climate and the environment in Florida, adding an important new dimension of reporting to the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit’s Southeast network. Green joins Inside Climate News from WMFE in Orlando, where she covered the environment for more than a decade. Green is also the creator […]
Emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals that destroy atmospheric ozone and fuel warming, are rising after their production was all but banned more than a decade ago, a new study concludes. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03042023/cfc-ban-rise/
Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Emissions of a small group of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals that destroy Earth’s protective ozone layer and fuel global warming, are back on the rise after their production was all but banned more than a decade ago, a new study concludes. Emissions of the vast majority of CFCs have steadily declined since countries phased out […]
No, no, no. Climate change you cannot take the Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs annual hair-freezing competition from us. Just, no. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/24/hair-freezing-contest-climate-change/
Black residents of St. James Parish in the heart of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have filed a federal lawsuit claiming parish government officials intentionally directed petrochemical plants toward Black residents and away from white residents. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032023/louisiana-cancer-alley-lawsuit-zoning/
Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning - Inside Climate News
Making the case that their local government was built on a culture of white supremacy, Black residents of St. James Parish in the heart of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have filed a federal lawsuit claiming land-use and zoning policies illegally concentrated more than a dozen polluting industrial plants where they live. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in […]
43,000 people died last year amid Somalia’s longest drought on record as humanitarian aid shifts to Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/somalia-drought-deaths-hunger-9e78f99c101a290304a28a37dadfef0b
The world is running out of options to defuse the “ticking climate time bomb,” UN Sec. General António Guterres said in response to the latest IPCC report. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032023/ipcc-report-ar6-climate-change/
New IPCC Report Shows the ‘Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking,’ Says UN Secretary General António Guterres - Inside Climate News
National governments haven’t done nearly enough to stop global warming in the seven years since they signed the Paris Climate Agreement, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a major report released on Monday. As a result, the world is running out of options to defuse the “ticking climate time bomb,” United Nations Secretary […]
Liza GrossHard to believe that in >20 years writing about #toxics and #environmentalhealth I somehow never wrote about #glyphosate. Then @CERCH director Brenda Eskenazi reported a link between childhood exposure to the weed killer and liver and metabolic disease in teens in @EHPonline
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11721, and I decided to dig into the science for @insideclimatenews https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032023/roundup-glyphosate-health-kids/
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11721, and I decided to dig into the science for @insideclimatenews https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032023/roundup-glyphosate-health-kids/