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Scientists Create Open Source Technology to Track Plastic Pollution

Yale E360

Using GPS and satellite tags inside plastic bottles, scientists have found that plastic pollution can travel thousands of miles in just a few months. Their project, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE , tracked one bottle over 1,768 miles in 94 days. Read more on E360 ?.

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In the Gulf of Maine, Scientists Race to Save Seabirds Threatened by Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

The causes: plastic and oil pollution, overfishing, fishing gear entanglements, development, rats and cats brought to islands by humans, and of course climate change. She texted Lachance Linklater to rush over to help pull the puffin out of the box and put a GPS tag on the bird.

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Protecting Clean Water Together - Disposing Of The Hard Stuff

PA Environment Daily

Things like cardboard and paper, glass jars and bottles, metal cans, and milk jugs and other #1 and #2 plastics. In fact, they cooperate with Chestnuthill to market recycled cardboard and plastics. Any resident of Monroe County can get a recycling tag to recycle the basics at the Waste Authority’s two recycling sites.

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PA Taxpayers So Far Give $130.9 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Billion Thru 2042; No Regard To Environmental Compliance Record

PA Environment Daily

million on the Shell Petrochemical Plant and associated pipeline for repeated air pollution and construction violations. So far, the Department of Environmental Protection has imposed penalties totalling over $10.6

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What’s in Store for 2024? Here Are Our 10 Environmental Predictions for the New Year

Enviromental Defense

At the international and federal levels, significant progress was made on climate action, plastic waste, toxic chemicals and biodiversity conservation. Renewable solar and wind are the cheapest forms of electricity and they don’t pollute. Learn more and take action at stopthe413.ca. You can read more here. You can learn more here.

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Environmental groups enter legal fight over regulation of plastics pollution

Enviromental Defense

Industry opposition to regulating plastics is out of step with science and public opinion. OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental groups are jumping into the legal fray to support the federal government as it fends off an industry-led lawsuit challenging its efforts to regulate plastic pollution.

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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24

PA Environment Daily

Shell exceeded its rolling 12-month total emission limitations for volatile organic compounds (VOC) beginning in October 2022 through April 2023, carbon monoxide (CO) from February through March 2023, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) from December 2022 through April 2023, and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP) from December 2022 through April 2023.