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Federal Water Tap, April 10: EPA’s Proposed Strengthening of Air Pollution Standards Comes with Water Benefit

Circle of Blue

The package includes $83 million for a recycled water pipeline and $150 million over three years to conserve water in Lake Mead. News Briefs Air Pollution Proposal The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Up The concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere continued to rise in 2022. government water policy.

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Are There Enough Materials to Manufacture All the Electric Vehicles Needed?  

Union of Concerned Scientists

These materials are primarily supplied through two sources: 1) newly mined or 2) recovered by recycling batteries already in circulation. Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs.

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Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Enviromental Defense

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Pollution control is expensive and air pollution regulations are not strict enough. But is burning waste cheaper than landfill? So, what is the solution?

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Brampton Residents Kept in the Dark as Private Waste Incinerator Set to Quadruple in Size

Enviromental Defense

Waste incinerators spew out toxic air pollution,” said Ashley Wallis, Associate Director at Environmental Defence. There are better waste solutions that cost less, create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More than half of the typical bag of garbage in Ontario is recyclable or compostable material.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 2

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Greylock Production, LLC - Wildcat Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium, and zinc to the Statewide Health Standards for the pad located in Whiteley Twp.,

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Chesapeake Bay Journal: Proposed Encina Pyrolysis Chemical Plant To Break Down Plastic Waste Into Benzene, Toluene, Xylenes Proposed For Susquehanna River Shoreline In Northumberland County

PA Environment Daily

billion plastics recycling plant proposed for Pennsylvania an innovative way to re-use plastics and keep them out of landfills, incinerators and waterways? Or will it help cement society’s reliance on plastics and create pollution concerns for the Susquehanna River? Unlike other advanced recycling plants in the U.S.,

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Cutting 290,000 Tons of Water Pollution a Year, One Coal Plant at a Time

Legal Planet

The permeate from the final stage of treatment would then be recycled back into the plant either as FGD makeup water or boiler makeup water.” EPA has been able to quantify a lot of the impacts of the most common air pollutants. We know much less about water pollutants and their health and ecological effects.