"A Bitcoin Boom Fueled by Cheap Power, Empty Plants and Few Rules" [1]
"Cryptocurrency miners are flocking to New York’s faded industrial towns, prompting concern over the environmental impact of huge computer farms."
Source: NYTimes [2], 12/06/2021
"Cryptocurrency miners are flocking to New York’s faded industrial towns, prompting concern over the environmental impact of huge computer farms."
"Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen."
"The Beltrán family always stocks two to three cases of bottled water in the cluttered garage of their home in Grand Prairie, Texas. They’ve used it to drink and cook for 15 years. And they trek to the nearest Walmart to stay fully stocked.
“We got here and the water was salty, super salty,” Santa Barbara Beltrán, 72, said in Spanish. “We buy jugs of water for cooking.”
"House Science Committee says information will help the U.S. meet its Global Methane Pledge "
"The House Science Committee has notified the chief executives of 10 major oil companies that they must disclose more data about their emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in one of America’s biggest oil and gas producing regions.
"A slew of climate provisions in Democrats' roughly $2 trillion social spending bill face an uncertain future in the Senate. But there's one big exception: limits on offshore oil and gas drilling."
"Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing".
"Alabama’s largest utility plans to bury a heap of toxic coal waste in one of North America’s most biodiverse river systems. Experts say it will put one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands at risk."
Honolulu's Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu's largest water source, on Thursday after the Navy said it found "a likely source of the contamination," the Navy said in a virtual town hall meeting."
"The nation’s highest bench today [Friday] rejected lobstering groups’ call to unwind fishing restrictions designed to protect endangered whales off the coast of Maine."
"It has been our great privilege to bring you news from Stoneham and Woburn over the years,” read the announcement. “We regret to inform you that this will be the final edition of the Sun-Advocate newspaper.” The Massachusetts weekly, as of August, is no more."
"An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country’s population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter. Many are already on the brink of catastrophe."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bitcoin-boom-fueled-cheap-power-empty-plants-and-few-rules
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/nyregion/bitcoin-mining-upstate-new-york.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/latino-residents-kept-dark-health-threat-texas-tce-superfund-site
[4] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122021/texas-superfund-site-grand-prairie-delfasco/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lawmakers-demand-oil-and-gas-firms-divulge-methane-leak-data
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/03/methane-leaks-house-science-committee/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/democrats-might-be-able-halt-most-new-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling
[8] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/02/democrats-want-prevent-new-oil-gas-drilling-most-us-waters-their-plan-might-work/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-some-your-favorite-podcasts-are-filled-oil-company-ads
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/04/exxon-podasts-oil-company-ads-climate-crisis
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gambling-america-s-amazon
[12] https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/12/us/coal-ash-ponds-plant-barry/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/honolulu-shuts-down-largest-well-due-navy-oil-contamination
[14] https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/honolulu-halawa-shaft-water-source-contamination-navy-well-oahu/index.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scotus-rejects-lobster-union-plea-undo-whale-protections
[16] https://www.eenews.net/articles/lobster-fishermen-urge-supreme-court-to-undo-whale-protections/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-happens-democracy-when-local-journalism-dries
[18] https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/30/margaret-sullivan-the-local-news-crisis/
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/facing-economic-collapse-afghanistan-gripped-starvation
[20] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/asia/afghanistan-starvation-crisis.html
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