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Stop the Burn, Save Lives: The case for a community-led zero waste model in Baltimore

Union of Concerned Scientists

for air pollution. Baltimore has two active trash incinerators and decades of pollution from both active and decommissioned industrial factories. A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […].

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Bearing the brunt: Who breathes the air pollutants from hog CAFOs in North Carolina?

Environmental News Bits

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and their open waste storage pits emit two chemicals of particular concern to human health: ammonia (ammoniaNH3) and hydrogen sulfide (hydrogen sulfideH2S).

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

Enviromental Defense

The facility’s owner, Emerald Energy From Waste, has quietly announced it will more than quadruple its capacity to burn garbage from households and businesses. Instead, Emerald Energy From Waste conducts its own assessment and consultations, submits its documentation, and can assume it has the green-light.

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We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs "

PA Environment Daily

Related Articles: -- We've Heard This Before : "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs" - Until Air Pollution Killed People , Then We Said No -- We've Heard This Before : "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs" - Until Hunters Could Find No Game And Anglers Could Find No Fish , Then We Said No. -- We've Heard This (..)

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We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs"

PA Environment Daily

Until Mountains Of Coal Waste, Ravaged Landscapes Killed Our Streams, Then We Said No.

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We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs"

PA Environment Daily

We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs" - Adverse Health Impacts, Polluted Water, Land, Air, Road Dumping Waste, Explosions, Flaring, Noise, Uncontrolled Gas Venting - When Will We Say No ? Posted: May 10, 2024]

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DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016

PA Environment Daily

On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.

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