Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The EPA and others warned about potential contamination as far back as 2014. Read the full story at ProPublica. But Washington state law does not require schools or health departments to act on those findings. Read more →

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2014 Law 74

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

More than a thousand people talked to ProPublica about living in hot spots for cancer-causing air pollution. Read the full story at ProPublica. Most never got a warning from the EPA. They are rallying neighbors, packing civic meetings and signing petitions for reform. Read more →

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Air Pollution 75

New Scientist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Riley Stearns's dark comedy about a death match between clones has an appealing premise, but it doesn't quite hit the mark

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

There are likely to be many more recently abandoned wells in the oil fields DEP knows nothing about. The thousands of new abandoned conventional oil and gas wells represent a potential taxpayer liability of over $100 million, even if just half of them remain unplugged-- given the average cost to safely plug a well is about $33,000.

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2018 2016 Environmental Protection Regulations 98

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The plaintiffs in these cases allege that the companies knew the harms their products would cause, that the companies failed to warn and misled the public about those harms, and that the products have caused damages in the form of rising seas, more frequent and severe storms, heat waves, and wildfires, among other climate change impacts.

Fossil Fuels 81

Fossil Fuels Climate Change Clean Air Act Law 81

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Substantial evidence supported the County’s decision not to recirculate the DEIR after adding information to the FEIR about the Project’s impact to climate change. Recirculation Not Required. Specifically, while the DEIR was being circulated, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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Renewable Energy Clean Energy Conservation 2013 86

Physics World

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

People who think seriously about science communication have a similar mantra about what to focus on: audience, audience, audience. The biggest absence in this book, in my opinion, is that the subsections describing the human side of the featured scientists only appear in the chapters about breakthroughs 1 to 7.

Cooling 96

Cooling Electricity Technology Technology 96

Physics World

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Think about experiments to produce tangible evidence that the Earth is spinning by seeing which direction the plane of a pendulum drifts or which way water swirls down a drain. Both are effectively useless with inexpensive equipment given their susceptibility to environmental conditions. I could only think of two suggestions.

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Conservation Electricity 119