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Yellowknife study warns of unprecedented arsenic release from wildfires - PHYS.org

Yellowknife study warns of unprecedented arsenic release from wildfires - PHYS.org | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

The wildfire season of 2023 was the most destructive ever recorded in Canada and a new study suggests the impact was unprecedented. It found that four of the year's wildfires in mine-impacted areas around Yellowknife, Northwest Territories potentially contributed up to half of the arsenic that wildfires emit globally each year.

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Graduate student exposes government agency for promoting illegal waste dumping: 'Pollutants lingering in the soil above health and safety levels' - The Cool Down

Graduate student exposes government agency for promoting illegal waste dumping: 'Pollutants lingering in the soil above health and safety levels' - The Cool Down | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

A Louisville resident and recent graduate made a shocking discovery of a toxic dumping site in her hometown forest.

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February 14, 9:55 PM
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New satellite images reveal the troubling reality of how far pollution can travel: 'Crucial data that we need to help us' - The Cool Down

New satellite images reveal the troubling reality of how far pollution can travel: 'Crucial data that we need to help us' - The Cool Down | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

The first images of air pollution in North America from its space-based probe TEMPO were just released by NASA.

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July 10, 2023 9:28 PM
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The Return of the Cruise: How Luxury Cruises are Polluting European Cities : 4Hoteliers

The Return of the Cruise: How Luxury Cruises are Polluting European Cities : 4Hoteliers | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

After a brief hiatus due to COVID-19, luxury cruises are back...

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April 22, 2022 11:58 PM
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Pollution Causes More Deaths Than COVID, According to Earth Day 2022 - CengNews.com

Pollution Causes More Deaths Than COVID, According to Earth Day 2022 - CengNews.com | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Billions of people around the world were put on lockdown in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, pollution levels dropped dramatically.

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October 6, 2021 12:12 PM
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Gazans are being poisoned slowly, as 97% of water is undrinkable, rights group says – MiddleEastMoniter.com

Gazans are being poisoned slowly, as 97% of water is undrinkable, rights group says – MiddleEastMoniter.com | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly as 97 per cent of the water in the coastal enclave is undrinkable, Euro-Med Monitor said... 

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March 23, 2021 6:37 PM
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The Destroyers: OpParasite

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My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. - Proverbs 1:10 (ESV)

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January 7, 2021 4:06 PM
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Bank lending to plastics industry faces scrutiny as pollution concerns mount - The Fiji Times 

Bank lending to plastics industry faces scrutiny as pollution concerns mount - The Fiji Times  | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

LONDON (Reuters) – Banks have provided $1.7 trillion of finance to 40 companies in the plastics supply chain without imposing any requirements to tackle plastic pollution pouring into the world’s rivers and oceans, according to a report published on Thursday.

 

With European and U.S. banks increasingly spurning the most polluting fossil fuel projects to help slow climate change, campaigners want lenders to take a similar approach to plastics by making loans conditional on measures to boost recycling. 

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November 6, 2020 3:53 PM
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Permit for Controversial $9 Billion Plastics Plant in “Chemical Alley” to Be Put on Hold — ProPublica.org

Permit for Controversial $9 Billion Plastics Plant in “Chemical Alley” to Be Put on Hold — ProPublica.org | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it
Proposed emissions from the plant would triple the levels of cancer-causing chemicals in one of the most toxic areas of the U.S., but the Army Corps of Engineers intends to suspend the permit.
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August 26, 2020 2:46 PM
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Duke Energy Asks Regulators To Let it Charge Customers For Coal Ash Costs | WFAE

Duke Energy Asks Regulators To Let it Charge Customers For Coal Ash Costs | WFAE | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Duke Energy is urging state regulators to approve rate increases at its two North Carolina electric utilities, including money to pay for cleanups of...

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July 15, 2020 1:15 PM
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Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears - The New York Times

Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears - The New York Times | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup costs left to taxpayers.

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May 13, 5:20 AM
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Louisiana ranked worst state again by U.S. News: Here's why - Shreveport Times

Louisiana ranked worst state again by U.S. News: Here's why - Shreveport Times | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Louisiana as the worst state in America with poverty, pollution, violence among key factors.

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Chinese mill blamed for turning Serbia village red with pollution - Digital Journal

Chinese mill blamed for turning Serbia village red with pollution - Digital Journal | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

In the eight years since Chinese company HBIS bought a steel mill near the eastern Serbian city of Smederevo, locals say they have been plagued by...

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November 22, 2023 4:47 PM
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Pollution can make you age, ruin your skin in many ways - The Print

Pollution can make you age, ruin your skin in many ways - The Print | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

There are multiple pathways for pollutants to enter the skin — direct contact, absorption through hair follicles and sweat ducts, inhalation, ingestion.

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May 11, 2023 9:30 PM
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EPA Unveils Nation’s First Curbs On Climate-Changing Pollution From Power Plants - HuffPost.com

EPA Unveils Nation’s First Curbs On Climate-Changing Pollution From Power Plants - HuffPost.com | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Coal and gas plants will need to capture most carbon emissions by the end of the 2030s — or shut down.

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January 13, 2022 10:39 PM
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Why are San Jose's trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year - Phys.org

Why are San Jose's trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year - Phys.org | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

San Jose's trees are slowly vanishing.

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June 9, 2021 11:58 PM
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Transportation emissions generate air pollution that has a large death toll – Harvard.edu

Transportation emissions generate air pollution that has a large death toll – Harvard.edu | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

Study identifies leading source of health damages from vehicle pollution in 12 states and Washington, D.C.

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March 8, 2021 9:55 PM
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Toxic waste from Tiwai Point smelter: Government halted talks over lack of plan | RNZ News

Toxic waste from Tiwai Point smelter: Government halted talks over lack of plan | RNZ News | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it
The government has suspended talks over the Bluff aluminium smelter until it gets environmental commitments over cleaning up its landfill and spent cell-liner waste.
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January 1, 2021 1:54 AM
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare - grist.org

How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare - grist.org | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it
In 2008, one billion gallons of coal ash spilled into the Emory River. What lurked below was even more frightening.
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September 6, 2020 4:33 PM
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Oil industry lobbies US to help weaken Kenya’s strong stance on plastic waste | The Guardian

Oil industry lobbies US to help weaken Kenya’s strong stance on plastic waste | The Guardian | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it
Environmentalists fear changing Kenya’s resolve would lead to all of Africa becoming a plastics dumping ground
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August 17, 2020 4:55 PM
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Trump administration announces plans to drill - CNNPolitics

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Trump administration announces plans to drill - CNNPolitics | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Monday announced plans for an oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, clearing the way for drilling in the remote Alaskan area.
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February 24, 2020 8:52 PM
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Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' | Environment | The Guardian

Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' | Environment | The Guardian | Operation Deimos | Scoop.it

The oil and gas industry has had a far worse impact on the climate than previously believed, according to a study indicating that human emissions of fossil methane have been underestimated by up to 40%.

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“This indicates that the fossil fuel sector has a much more polluting impact beyond being responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon dioxide emissions. This is worrying and overall bad news,” said Dr Joeri Rogelj, a climate change lecturer at the Grantham Institute.

 

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