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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

I distinctly remember the rotten egg smell of sulfur dioxide hanging over the Flats whenever we went downtown. You got involved in a “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) case against the Trump administration EPA in 2020 that predated the Supreme Court ruling. That ruling will certainly complicate efforts to protect US waterways.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970.

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