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ecoamerica · 6 months

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Last call: It's the final week to apply for the American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students! Apply by Friday, December 15, at midnight PT!

ANNOUNCING: American Climate Leadership Awards has a new category for high school students working towards local climate solutions! @ecoamerica is awarding $125K in cash prizes to student climate leaders. Apply by 12/15: https://ecoamerica.org/american-climate-leadership-awards-high-school-2024/

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politijohn · 8 months

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#government #health #public health #ban fossil fuels #the left #environmetalists #environmental justice #news #current events

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reasonsforhope · 4 days

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"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday [April 9, 2024] that will require 218 chemical plants to reduce toxic and carcinogenic airborne pollutants, aiming to reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96% nationwide.

The rulings principally address chloroprene: used to make rubber products, and ethylene oxide, used primarily for sterilizing medical supplies. Long-term exposure to these chemicals and their manufacturing have been identified as possible carcinogens, or cancer-causing agents.

According to a report in the Washington Post, this can include lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer, and liver cancer.

Across a strip of Louisiana and Texas where half of the 218 chemical manufacturing facilities set to be affected by the new regulations are located, cancer rates of these kinds are substantially higher than national averages, leading it to be colloquially called “Cancer Alley.”

EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited Cancer Alley during the open-comment period of the proposed ruling, and said that across the 85 miles dotted with communities, he failed to meet a single person who didn’t know a loved one or friend who had either developed cancer, died of it, or knew someone who had.

Once implemented, the ruling will reduce more than 6,200 tons of toxic air pollution each year, according to the Post."

-via Good News Network, April 15, 2024

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alexxahope · 5 months

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Instead of watching American Climate Leadership, watch me for free. And give yourself a good pleasure 🥵🥵

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boomershroomer · 5 months

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This time-lapse was taken over 7 days with a GoPro. Genetics https://mushroomresercheshop.com/

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wachinyeya · 9 days

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https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/227272/corn-plants-solution-arsenic-contaminated-soil-challenges/

#good news #soil #toxicity #arsenic #soil health #environmentalism #science #environment #corn #corn plants #nature #agriculture

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sparksinthenight · 3 months

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“This is making people sick, so our governments can and should require these companies to use some of their record-breaking profits to clean up the mess they’ve made.”

#alberta #abpoli #canada #cdnpoli #albertan #canadian #climate news #climate change #climate crisis #climate catastrophe #climate emergency #environmentalism #fossil fuels #health #pollution #toxins

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thecoffeelorian · 3 months

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#current events #thecooldown #pollution #climate crisis #kayrros #sky news #polluting leaks #methane #united states #russia #turkmenistan #australia #india #environmental protection agency #EPA #global methane pledge #world health organization #can we PLEASE do something now...?!

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angryrdpanda · 5 months

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Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted | Essence

Forcing birth in a city with compromised drinking water...............

#New Orleans #forced birth #abortion #reproductive rights #reproductive health #health #water #water is life #crime #environmental racism #poverty #classism #racism #Louisiana #Jeff Landry #politics

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luxnebula · 6 months

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Unihäiriöt ja masennusoireet yleistyvät Suomessa ilmastonmuutoksen takia, ennustavat tutkijat

Alustavien tutkimustulosten mukaan vaikuttaa siltä, että masennusoireilu voi yleistyä, kun tulevaisuudessa talvet ovat synkempiä. Myös unihäiriöt saattavat lisääntyä.

Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL) yhteistyökumppaneineen tutkii tätä laajassa Champs-hankkeessa. – Todennäköisesti unihäiriöt yleistyvät. Kaamosoireet saattavat yleistyä tai ainakin vakavoitua. Ja myös masennusoireilua ja masennussairauksia saattaa ilmaantua etenkin talvikuukausina enemmän, THL:n tutkimusprofessori Timo Partonen summaa tähänastista tietoa. Aiemmin mielenkiinto on kohdistunut lähinnä siihen, kuinka ilmastonmuutoksen aiheuttamat luonnonkatastrofit vaikuttavat ihmisten mielenterveyteen. Myös ilmastoahdistus on monille tuttu termi. Ilmastonmuutoksen pitkän ajan vaikutuksista mielenterveyteen ei sen sijaan ole ollut juurikaan tietoa.

Ilmastonmuutoksesta tulee aina vain vakavampi ja vakavampi asia. Ja tämä on vain yksi sivuvaikutus kaiken muun seassa!

#in finnish #original #climate change #environmentalism #mental health #news

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ecoamerica · 6 months

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Last call: It's the final week to apply for the American Climate Leadership Awards! Apply by Friday, December 15, at midnight PT!

Calling all climate leaders! 2024 marks 5 years of @ecoamerica’s American Climate Leadership Awards, and applications are open now! Your efforts toward climate solutions can earn a share of $175,000! You may be awarded $1,000 just for qualifying as a semifinalist. Apply here for your chance: https://ecoamerica.org/american-climate-leadership-awards-2024/

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politijohn · 11 months

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#environment #capitalism #environmentalism #current events #news #global warming #climate change #health #public health

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reasonsforhope · 1 month

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"In cities across the country, people of color, many of them low income, live in neighborhoods criss-crossed by major thoroughfares and highways.

The housing there is often cheaper — it’s not considered particularly desirable to wake up amid traffic fumes and fall asleep to the rumble of vehicles over asphalt.

But the price of living there is steep: Exhaust from all those cars and trucks leads to higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary ailments. Many people die younger than they otherwise would have, and the medical costs and time lost to illness contributes to their poverty.

Imagine if none of those cars and trucks emitted any fumes at all, running instead on an electric charge. That would make a staggering difference in the trajectory, quality, and length of millions of lives, particularly those of young people growing up near freeways and other sources of air pollution, according to a study from the American Lung Association.

The study, released [February 28, 2024], found that a widespread transition to EVs could avoid nearly 3 million asthma attacks and hundreds of infant deaths, in addition to millions of lower and upper respiratory ailments...

Prior research by the American Lung Association found that 120 million people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air daily, and 72 million live near a major trucking route — though, Barret added, there’s no safe threshold for air pollution. It affects everyone.

Bipartisan efforts to strengthen clean air standards have already made a difference across the country. In California, which, under the Clean Air Act, can set state rules stronger than national standards, 100 percent of new cars sold there must be zero emission by 2035.

[Note: The article doesn't explain this, but that is actually a much bigger deal than just California. Basically, due to historically extra terrible pollution, California is the only state that's allowed to allowed to set stronger emissions rules than the US government sets. However, one of the rules in the Clean Air Act is that any other state can choose to follow California's standards instead of the US government's. And California by itself is the world's fifth largest economy - ahead of all but four countries. So, between those two things, when California sets stricter standards for cars, they effects ripple outward massively, far beyond the state's borders.]

Truck manufacturers are, according to the state’s Air Resources Board, already exceeding anticipated zero-emissions truck sales, putting them two years ahead of schedule...

Other states have begun to take action, too, often reaching across partisan lines to do so. Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, and Rhode Island adopted zero-emissions standards as of the end of 2023.

The Biden administration is taking similar steps, though it has slowed its progress after automakers and United Auto Workers pressured the administration to relax some of its more stringent EV transition requirements.

While Barret finds efforts to support the electrification of passenger vehicles exciting, he said the greatest culprits are diesel trucks. “These are 5 to 10 percent of the vehicles on the road, but they’re generating the majority of smog-forming emissions of ozone and nitrogen,” Barret said...

Lately, there’s been significant progress on truck decarbonization. The Biden administration has made promises to ensure that 30 percent of all big rigs sold are electric by 2030...

Such measures, combined with an increase in public EV charging stations, vehicle tax credits, and other incentives, could change American highways, not to mention health, for good."

-via GoodGoodGood, February 28, 2024

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many-eyed-seraph · 1 month

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nyc residents i need help with a research project

my project is to do a comic about animals that live in the sewers in nyc. what animals do you personally know of that live down there? google is mainly telling me about alligators. i'm at the end of my rope.

#nyc #new york city #the department of environmental health hasn't gotten back to me and it's really their purview

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wachinyeya · 4 months

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#finland #good news #environmentalism #science #nature #environment #health #forests

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hackam0ngus · 4 months

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BiBi Goes Fishing To Feed Ody Cat | Entertaining Video For Children

Play full video here

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