"The Cost To Capture Carbon? More Water And Electricity"
"A Louisiana power company’s plan to capture climate emissions is raising concerns about the state’s water supplies".
Source: Floodlight, 10/17/2022
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"See Where Toxic PFAS Have Been Used In Pennsylvania Fracking Wells"
"Toxic “forever chemicals”, also known as PFAS, have been used in at least eight oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, but the exact location of those wells has never been publicly disclosed — until now."
Source: EHN, 10/17/2022
Study Reveals ‘Staggering’ Scale Of Lost Fishing Gear Drifting In Oceans
"Lost nets, lines and hooks trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore".
Source: Guardian, 10/17/2022
"20 Nations at High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments"
"Twenty countries most vulnerable to climate change are considering halting their repayment of $685 billion in collective debt, loans that they say are an “injustice,” Mohamad Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, said on Friday."
Source: NYTimes, 10/17/2022
"Xi Vows To Prioritise Environment, Protect Nature"
"President Xi Jinping on Sunday said China will give priority to environmental protection and promoting green lifestyles, and that the conservation of nature was an essential part of building a modern socialist country."
Source: Reuters, 10/17/2022
"Why Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships"
"In the misty forests of the Congolese rainforest, a small band of apes fed in a tree. Adult chimpanzees dined on fruit in the canopy, while a pair of young apes played nearby. But one of the playing apes was not a chimpanzee: It was a gorilla."
Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2022
"Germany’s New Hunger for Coal Dooms a Tiny Village"
"For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms."
Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2022
"Toxic PFAS Pollution Is Likely At More Than 57,000 US Locations: Report"
"Toxic PFAS have likely contaminated roughly 57,412 locations across the U.S., according to a new study."
Source: EHN, 10/14/2022
"Weak Florida Planning Law Boosted Ian’s Destructive Power"
"Could the [Fort Meyers] region have been spared some of the damage with more aggressive planning and zoning? “Yes,” planners and resilience experts say. Sound land use planning builds stronger communities — physically, socially and politically. Yet Florida lawmakers effectively killed the state’s ability to check urban sprawl a decade ago with the passage of a reform measure called the 2011 Community Planning Act."
Source: E&E News, 10/14/2022
British Cycling’s Partnership With Shell: Tip Of The Sportswashing Iceberg
"British Cycling came under fire this week after it inked a sponsorship deal with oil firm Shell. Conscious Ad Network co-founder Jake Dubbins says the move is yet another example of blatant sportswashing."
Source: The Drum, 10/14/2022
