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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. Rupa Basu poses for a photo while pregnant with her second child in June 2007. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. ppb, a 40% increase.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, runs the all-volunteer Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. “I In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio.