"How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon)"
"Something was decimating the salmon that had been restored to creeks around Puget Sound."
Source: NYTimes, 12/04/2020
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"Contaminants in New Jersey Soil and Water Are Toxic, Documents Reveal"
"Solvay had previously withheld information about the PFAS chemicals on the grounds that it was “confidential business information.”"
Source: The Intercept, 12/02/2020
"Air Monitors Routinely Miss Pollution - Even Refinery Explosions"
Standard methods of monitoring air pollution are missing major pollution incidents.
Source: Reuters, 12/02/2020
16 Georgia Superfund Sites Threatened by Climate-Linked Extreme Weather
"With climate a major issue in two Senate runoff elections, the state’s voters need look no further than coastal Brunswick for potential risks."
Source: InsideClimate News, 11/30/2020
EPA Won't Require Industry To Guarantee Funding For Toxic Waste Cleanups
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is declining to require oil and gas, coal, chemical and mining companies to have insurance to cover major spills and accidents."
Source: The Hill, 11/27/2020
EPA Finds Known Carcinogen TCE Poses Risk To Workers, Consumers
"EPA has finalized its evaluation for a known carcinogen and concluded it poses an outsize health risk, even as environmental advocates say the assessment should go further."
Source: E&E News, 11/25/2020
"Air Pollution: EPA Finally Ditches Toxics Rule, Industry Shrugs"
"After years of work, the Trump administration has succeeded in formally unraveling a venerable industrial air toxics policy. Does industry much care?"
Source: E&E News, 11/23/2020
"Pet Flea Treatments Poisoning Rivers Across England, Scientists Find"
"Highly toxic insecticides used on cats and dogs to kill fleas are poisoning rivers across England, a study has revealed. The discovery is “extremely concerning” for water insects, and the fish and birds that depend on them, the scientists said, who expect significant environmental damage is being done."
Source: Guardian, 11/18/2020
"'Just Terrible.' Top Biden Adviser Ducked Climate Activists"
"In their fight against a huge petrochemical plant, Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" activists say somebody major has been missing — their congressman, Rep. Cedric Richmond."
Source: E&E News, 11/18/2020
"Shingle Mountain"
"Marsha Jackson didn’t go to the mountain. The mountain came to her. ... The mountain is human-made — an environmental nightmare of discarded roofing shingles stretching more than a city block. Even though it’s an illegal toxic waste dump on the edge of a neighborhood, it took months of pressure to get city officials to even acknowledge its existence and finally make plans to take it down."
Source: Washington Post, 11/18/2020
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