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Memphis Facility Emitting Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide Gas to Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

The facility in South Memphis was among the most dangerous commercial sterilization facilities in the United States, featured by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of more than 20 facilities contributing to “elevated cancer risks” in nearby communities.

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Is declaring a climate emergency enough to stop the climate crisis? What we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic

Frontiers

Now, he explains what lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic we can apply to our fight against the climate crisis. Jordi Mazon is professor of meteorology at the Department of physics in the Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech) and teaches higher-level physics in the international baccalaureate in Aula higher school in Barcelona.

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Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities. The agency is expected to announce the rule sometime this month.

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Western Wildfires are Burning Through Local and State Budgets 

Union of Concerned Scientists

This alarming finding clarifies the significant role and responsibility of fossil fuel companies to not only stop their harm moving forward, but also to address damage they have already done. Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. Source: CCST 2020. Wildfires are expensive—before, during, and after they occur.

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The Overshoot Commission Addresses Geoengineering

Legal Planet

They expressed particular caution, appropriately, against letting consideration of SRM be a distraction from mitigation and other responses, or an excuse for not making extreme efforts on them. The commentary and discussion I’m posting are my own views, not those of the Commission. In my view, they met the challenge very well.

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Guest Essay: Forestal Or Foresee - The Energy Transition And The Pennsylvania Legislature

PA Environment Daily

In the case of the Christmas weekend storm, PJM reported that 23.2% That’s bad news for most Pennsylvanians. In fact, it was mostly gas that failed during the storm. The real threat to Pennsylvanians is the failure of Yaw and other state policymakers to plan for the ongoing transition to renewables.

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

A plume of industrial wastewater, thought to be tainted with toxic hexavalent chromium, had entered the Huron River last August after spilling from a chrome-plating facility upstream. It was headed toward Ann Arbor’s intake pipes. said Steglitz, the city’s public services area administrator. Like, if we’re going to treat it, how do we do it?