Pollution

"How Farms Are Fighting A Pesky Almond Moth Without Pesticides"

"Every year, navel orangeworms eat through roughly 2% of California’s almonds before they can make it to grocery store shelves. With climate change threatening to make the situation worse, researchers are hoping to sterilize millions of moths a day with radiation and drop them from airplanes."

Source: LA Times, 10/11/2024

Wisconsin Estimates Around 40 Percent Of Private Wells Contain Pesticides

"The state estimates one or more pesticides are found in around 43 percent of 800,000 private wells in Wisconsin, and more than half of the pesticides detected aren’t regulated in groundwater by the state or federal governments."

Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, 10/11/2024

Polluted Waste From Florida’s Fertilizer Industry Vulnerable To Milton

"As Hurricane Milton pummeled Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists worry it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways."

Source: AP, 10/11/2024

"An Oil Giant Railroads Its SCOTUS Connection To Gut Environmental Law"

"A fossil fuel giant with deep ties to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, along with other powerful pro-business groups, are explicitly pressuring Gorsuch and his fellow justices to rule in favor of oil and gas interests in an upcoming Supreme Court case."

Source: Lever News, 10/11/2024

In Visit, EPA Head Vows To Address Environmental Injustices In Watts

"During a visit to the Jordan Downs public housing complex in Watts on Saturday morning, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the agency is working with state and federal partners to address elevated lead levels in the community’s drinking water and pollution from scrap metal recycler S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co."

Source: LA Times, 10/09/2024

EPA Reaches $4.2M Settlement Over 2019 Explosion At Philadelphia Refinery

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a tentative $4.2 settlement with a firm that owned and operated a major East Coast refinery that was shuttered after an explosion and fire in 2019."

Source: AP, 10/09/2024

"Exported Gas Produces Far Worse Emissions Than Coal, Major Study Finds"

"Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid expansion of gas exports from the US to Europe and Asia."

Source: Guardian, 10/08/2024

Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Case Claiming Cancer Alley Racism

"Black residents of Louisiana’s St. James Parish asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn a lower court ruling and give them the opportunity to argue at trial that local land-use policies are racist and have concentrated polluting industrial plants in their neighborhoods."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2024

"EPA Not Protecting Public From Neonic Exposure, Analysis Suggests"

"Rodent studies given to US regulators by insecticide makers close to 20 years ago revealed the chemicals could be harmful to the animals’ brain development – data worrisome for humans exposed to the popular pesticides but not properly accounted for by regulators, according to a new research report published this week."

Source: The New Lede, 10/08/2024

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