"Revealed: Huge Gas Flaring Emissions Never Reported"
"Major oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed."
Source: BBC News, 09/30/2022
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"An Explosive Problem: The Radford Arsenal’s Toxic Operations"
"At military bases across the country, the Department of Defense (DoD) has for decades relied on a practice known as open burn/open detonation (OB/OD) to destroy excess, unserviceable, or obsolete military munitions, including small arms cartridges, rockets, mortars, missiles, and other items."
Source: Ctr. for Progressive Reform, 09/29/2022
Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxics Into Water
"Texas is a notably easy place to set up shop for industrial projects with lots of liquid waste and nowhere good to put it. The state’s waterways are open for business, an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data shows, to send large volumes of discarded chemicals and industrial discharge downstream and out to sea."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/28/2022
"Civil Rights Law Targets ‘Cancer Alley’ Discrimination"
"Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery."
Source: AP, 09/26/2022
How EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled
"When Sally Rand, a former EPA official, used to meet with industry executives to discuss an obscure, but incredibly potent and long-lived group of greenhouse gases, she knew how to get their attention."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/22/2022
"Revealed: The ‘Shocking’ Levels Of Toxic Lead In Chicago Tap Water"
"One in 20 tap water tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, at or above US government limits, according to a Guardian analysis of a City of Chicago data trove."
Source: Guardian, 09/22/2022
Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases
"The Senate voted on Wednesday to approve an international climate treaty for the first time in 30 years, agreeing in a rare bipartisan deal to phase out of the use of planet-warming industrial chemicals commonly found in refrigerators and air-conditioners."
Source: NYTimes, 09/22/2022
"Fury Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ as US States Spread Toxic Sewage Sludge"
"States are continuing to allow sewage sludge to be spread on cropland as fertilizer and in some cases increasing the amount spread, even as the PFAS-tainted substance has ruined farmers’ livelihoods, poisoned water supplies, contaminated food and put the public’s health at risk."
Source: Guardian, 09/21/2022
Louisiana Plant Explosion Highlighted In Push For New Chemical Safety Rules
"A new report points to a chemical explosion in Louisiana this year as a prime example of why the federal government should toughen national safety standards at petrochemical plants."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/21/2022
"Kigali Climate Treaty Clears Senate Hurdle"
"The Senate cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday afternoon before moving to ratify the international climate deal to phase down the use of potent greenhouse gases stemming from refrigerants and air conditioning units."
Source: E&E News, 09/21/2022
