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Natural Gas Leaks In Boston Vastly Underreported — Could Be Inside Homes [1]

"New research shows that methane emissions in the Boston area were six times higher than previously estimated. That could make the greenhouse effect of natural gas “equivalent to coal.”"

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Infrastructure [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [7]
Source: Washington Post [8], 10/26/2021
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"Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New Record Despite Lockdowns, UN Reports" [9]

"Levels of climate-heating gases in the atmosphere hit record levels in 2020, despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has announced."

Air [10]
Climate Change [2]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
International [11]
Source: Guardian [12], 10/26/2021
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Will 2022 See the Start of Formal Negotiations Toward a Global Plastics Treaty? [13]

Plastic waste, already the subject of preliminary international talks, could be increasingly targeted after UN meetings in early 2022. Meanwhile, this ubiquitous product is polluting land, ocean and air in its various forms, as well as through little-understood microplastic particles. The latest TipSheet has the backstory on efforts to forge an international plastics treaty, as well as ideas for how to cover plastic pollution locally.

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Activism [15]
Air [10]
Chemicals [16]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Food [22]
Government [23]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Policy [26]
Pollution [5]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [29]
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National (U.S.) [30]
International [11]
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Public [6]
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"Navajo Nation Pushes For Radioactive Waste Remnants To Be Removed" [31]

"Navajo Nation continues to hold strong on its stance against radioactive waste being dumped near its lands, while also pushing for the waste to be removed completely."

Air [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [32]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Natural Resources [34]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [35]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Source New Mexico [36], 10/25/2021
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"Judge Nixes Trump-Era Limits On Regulation Of Water-Polluting Projects" [37]

"A federal judge on Thursday refused to leave a contested Trump-era water pollution rule in place while the Biden administration reviews it for the next 18 months, finding that letting it stay in effect could cause long-lasting environmental harm."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [32]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Courthouse News Service [38], 10/25/2021
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"Greenpeace Chief Warns Of ‘Greenwashing’ at UN Climate Talks" [39]

"The head of environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday warned against efforts by countries and corporations at the forthcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow to “greenwash” their ongoing pollution of the planet."

Activism [15]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [32]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [25]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
International [11]
Source: AP [40], 10/22/2021
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Wildfire Smoke Harms More People In The Eastern U.S. Than West: Study [41]

"About 75 percent of asthma cases and deaths from smoke pollutants occurred east of the Rocky Mountains in recent years".

Air [10]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [19]
Forests [43]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Washington Post [44], 10/21/2021
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People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late [45]

"Community advocates and environmental groups pointed out that the EPA has promised action on toxic PFAS pollution for many years."

Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: The Intercept [46], 10/21/2021
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"Feds Hit Brakes — Again — On Mining Near Boundary Waters" [47]

"President Joe Biden's administration is seeking a 20-year moratorium on mining in Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, restarting a process that started, and stopped, under previous administrations."

Laws & Regulations [33]
Natural Resources [34]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [48]
Canada [49]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [50], 10/21/2021
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"How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution" [51]

"DuPont factories pumped dangerous substances into the environment. The company and its offspring have gone to great lengths to dodge responsibility."

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour of the Fayetteville Works factory.

Mr. Long showed off the plant’s new antipollution technologies, designed to stop a chemical called GenX from pouring into the Cape Fear River, escaping into the air and seeping into the ground water.

Chemicals [16]
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Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: NYTimes [53], 10/21/2021
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