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Hawaii's Dept. of Health demanded the Navy halt operations at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility after a leak led to contaminated drinking water, forcing 700 people from their homes. The facility is 100 feet above the Red Hill aquifer supplying drinking water to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and... 
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Behemoth is the first of God's conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. - Job 40:19 (GWT)
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Officials warned the dangerous conditions could persist through Wednesday, with power outages already reported across the state.
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The company managing the shutdown of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant now says it will not release contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay.
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Summer of 2021 saw severe blazes in North America, Siberia, Mediterranean, and North Africa...
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The fact these chemicals are contaminating Maine’s deer meat in the Fairfield area is an eye-opening reminder of just how extensive this problem is.
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Kirby Corp. has agreed to pay $15.3M in damages and other costs to resolve federal and state pollution claims from a 2014oil spill that closed the Houston Ship Channel...
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Jason Burns says inside a burning building, turnout gear keeps firefighters safe — but the gear itself, treated with PFAS chemicals, is unsafe.
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One of the firm's barges spilled about 4,000 barrels of oil into the waterway in 2014.
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It’s unclear how much oil spilled into the water, but dead fish have washed up onshore and the river’s surface was slick with rainbow-tinted sheen.
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In the past decade, there have been eight of the worst wildfire weather years on record. According to recent research, the world's eight most severe wildfire weather years happened in the previous decade, suggesting that catastrophic fire weather is caused by a drop in atmospheric humidity and...
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Officials say wildfires have killed thousands of giant sequoias this year -- a staggering loss after last year’s fires ravaged the population.
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Extensive efforts were made over the weekend and early this week to hold back floodwaters in Abbotsford, B.C., including the use of a Tiger Dam along Highway 1.
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The state is looking into results of testing efforts by the Vermont PFAS/Military Poisons Coalition, which found high levels of PFAS in the Winooski River and the Gilbrook Natural Area.
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The weather in Hawaii has brought relentless rain leaving parts of the state under the threat of "significant and life-threatening flooding."...
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Residents take to the streets to demand action after the latest spill affecting fishing communities in southern Nigeria.
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Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as climate change fanned unusually intense blazes, the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said on Monday.
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“Time and again, you see that PFAS are everywhere in products where they shouldn't be.”...
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High winds, months of drought and record temperatures fueled wildfires in central Montana this week that burned thousands of acres. Dozens of homes, grain elevators and bridges have been lost. MTPR’s Shaylee Ragar talked to some of those impacted by the fires.
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For decades, PFAS, the group of so-called “forever chemicals,” have been used to make ultra-fast wax that’s prized by cross country skiers. The industry is slowly trying to wean itself from the wax. But it will still be allowed at a big national-level race in Duluth this weekend.
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In a paper published in the National Science Review, a team from Tsinghua University analyzed the diffusion process of the treated Fukushima accident contaminated water to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean from 2023.
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The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate.
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Alex Poulin says his 4-year-old son loves deer meat, but contamination from 'forever chemicals' causes him to worry that his family is being harmed.
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The rain began falling across Europe on July 12. The storm started over the United Kingdom and swept east across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and then Germany. There it stalled for two days. During the pause, more than 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) of rain fell in east Belgium and 15 centimeters...
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Behemoth is the first of God's conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. - Job 40:19 (GWT)
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