Pollution

"Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study."

"For more than a century, the sprawling Phillips 66 oil refinery complex has dominated a vast tract of southern Los Angeles County."

"Natural gas and oil prices are likely to decline in the second half of the decade, but unexpectedly high worldwide demand for electricity will complicate efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday in its yearly World Energy Outlook."

"An influential oil and gas industry group whose members were aggressively pursued for campaign cash by Donald Trump has drafted detailed plans for dismantling landmark Biden administration climate rules after the presidential election, according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post."

"Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been detected in the breath of dolphins."

"Residents of Imperial Beach in southern San Diego County filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the operators of an international wastewater treatment plant — alleging that the site has failed to contain a cross-border crisis that has long contaminated their community."

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared prepared to force EPA to get more specific on how much pollution can be discharged into the nation’s waters — although at least one member of the conservative majority seemed open to allowing the agency to issue generic requirements under specific circumstances."

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a Biden administration regulation aimed at limiting planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants to remain in place as legal challenges play out."