Tag: oil and gas industry
Is Your State Making Big Oil Polluters Pay For Their Toxic Waste?
Last year may have been record-shattering for clean energy applications in the US, but not a whole lot was accomplished for emissions reductions. Demand for electricity and transport fuels rose fast enough to erase most of the benefits of new renewables and EVs. Yet the state of New York is … [continued]
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PIK Director Issues A Bleak Forecast For The Environment
The director of PIK, Germany’s premier environmental research institute, thinks controlling global overheating may be possible.
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Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon
Carbon capture holds tremendous promise — if it works. But in the real world, it doesn’t and is costing taxpayers billions.
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Elevated levels of radium found in Western Pennsylvania’s freshwater mussels
By Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News
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Sixty-two years ago, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” connected disappearing populations of bald eagles to the presence of the pesticide DDT in the birds’ food chain.
New York Becomes Second State To Pass Superfund Pollution Law
A new Superfund law in New York may require fossil fuel companies to pay up to $75 billion over 25 years for harm to the environment.
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