DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Read time: 7 mins When I arrived on Sunday, August 9, scores of tiny plastic pellets lined the sandy bank of the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, Louisiana, where they glistened in the sun, not far from a War of 1812 battlefield. Tags: plastic production Mississippi River Formosa RISE St.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2020

Around 27,000 Indigenous people already isolated by COVID -19 were left with little or no access to freshwater and fishing after more than 15,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the Rivers Coca and Napa and downriver to Peru. Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility would process fracked natural gas into methanol, a liquid chemical that can be used as fuel or for manufacturing plastics, and ship the flammable product down the Columbia River for export to Asia. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins For Beaver County, just northwest of Pittsburgh, the construction of Royal Dutch Shell’s towering new plastics factory overshadows the closure of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, the state’s largest coal power station, located along the same stretch of Ohio River in western Pennsylvania. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Read time: 6 mins “ It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. .

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Planet Pulse

MAY 15, 2020

The Missouri River Basin supports an abundance of wildlife, including the least tern and piping plover —shorebirds that are federally listed under the Endangered Species Act. Each depends on the Missouri River for a nesting habitat. As part of their Missouri River Operations Mission, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Her community along the Mississippi River is already saddled with petrochemical plants and oil storage tanks, which release known carcinogens into the air that she fears are making her and her family sick. Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Formosa plastics petrochemical development

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Environmental DNA: HIFI is optimising molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish. At HIFI, we are optimising state-of-the art molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish, in order to understand the fish communities upstream of pumping stations.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I live straight across the river from where the plant was going to be built.” Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical James Parish, told me in a call. “I

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Port of Kalama methanol plant, if built on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon, would expand North America’s capacity to export products produced by fracked shale gas wells, and is part of a $5.2 Tags: washington state methanol petrochemical development U.S. Department of Energy Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The five-mile stretch of Seattle’s only river was declared a Superfund site in 2001 after nearly 100 years of industrial activity, such as the manufacturing of airplane parts and the production of asphalt. percent sliver off of the whole project’s $342 million price tag. percent sliver off of the whole project’s $342 million price tag.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2019

billion plastics factory on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Pastor Harry Joseph St. James, is one of the plaintiffs appealing the parish council’s permit granted May 20 to Wanhua Chemical, which is planning to build a $1.25

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Econaur

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week we present the Flashback story of Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, whi ch received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. He further says that from 2000 BC, Dholavira entered a phase of severe aridity due to climate change and rivers like Saraswati drying up. Dholavira site.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

The standard tracking method in the Columbia River Basin is to tag individual fish with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags above the dam, which are detected as fish pass through a specific part of the dam called the juvenile bypass system. Above) The multiple paths fish can take when passing through and around a dam.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

American Rivers | Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement (APACE) | Asia Pacific Cultural Center. Defenders of Wildlife | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition / TAG | E3 Washington | Earthjustice | Earth Ministry . Think lawmakers should pass the HEAL Act? Join us by endorsing today!

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But Manila, too, will remain overcrowded and troubled, its prominent Pasig River highly polluted, its dirty air often obscuring the grandeur of Manila Bay. One thing that should concern European and North American governments and investors is the prominence of Chinese money in these projects.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

The new school of pumped hydro focuses on isolated reservoirs that don’t disrupt river ecosystems; this simplifies permitting, but projects still face a decade-long development timeline and billion-dollar price tags. Nevertheless, a handful of such projects are inching forward.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2020

For a short run, the 3-mile Deschutes River Trail loop is very pretty, and you don’t even have to leave town to enjoy it. If you prefer to keep your feet firmly planted on a trail, the park also offers a lovely, flat trail along Crooked River and a steep climb to the tops of cliffs. Lots of menu items can be made vegan upon request.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Even though you thought you were saving the world one reflective particle at a time, that orange eco-glitter you sprinkled on your Halloween craft project isn’t any easier on rivers and lakes than conventional glitter. Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, U.K. ran tests to compare ordinary glitter with “eco” glitter.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

An AI-driven platform can automatically upload, tag, organise and analyse multiple data types and sources. They are increasingly vulnerable to more frequent and intense hurricanes, winter bomb cyclones, atmospheric rivers, drought, fires and high temperatures. This creates a wealth of data: visual, thermal and geospatial.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Northland Community College, in nearby Thief River Falls, has a drone program for students and was a natural partner for Warren. The college already had the drones (each with a price tag of $40,000) and used the project as a student learning opportunity. How can they save energy? Community college partnership.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

These are transforming the landscape into a network of habitats which link with the main river, the Great Ouse. CEMEX, RSPB, BTO and Jamie Dunnings’ Twite Google Group – Dove Holes Quarry, Dove Holes, Buxton, Derbyshire -Radio tagging twite.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.” The research team exhorts that unchecked climate-related events will economically burden communities, especially unprepared ones.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Miners have built dams and rerouted rivers to expose riverbeds, adversely affecting fish and other wildlife. years of carbon footprint and a price tag of nearly $40,000. The main troubles in the diamond business start in the extraction phase. All of the company’s gold is fairly mined and comes in yellow, white or rose gold.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

In September and October, the Wet’suwet’en set up blockades on access roads, as Coastal GasLink prepared to drill beneath Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), which both is a source of food and holds spiritual significance to the Wet’suwet’en. Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 3M’s Cordova chemical plant on the Mississippi River. You’re aware that PFOS has been detected and reported in rivers and streams?” billion per year. the lawyer asks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters. Teekay Shipping. Barclays Bank.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A record number of flood warnings and alerts were issued on Sunday by the Environment Agency, and hundreds remain in place, including six severe enough to potentially pose a danger to life close to the rivers, Lugg, Severn and Wye, according to the government. Further heavy rain is also forecast in the north of England later this week.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

The price tag for just this stretch of pipeline is estimated to be $7 billion dollars (page 25 of Princeton report Annex). How would you cross highways, railroads, and rivers? The top one is the Triple 48 that goes into Louisiana. Credit: Big Dog 91 , CC BY-SA 2.0 And if you buried it, how deep would you have to go?

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

While in medical school, he took a class where he spent five days at 10,000-foot altitudes in the Rocky Mountains and then three weeks on the Colorado River, learning what it takes to treat patients in remote locations. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion. Zoya Teirstein. “I

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In Appalachia, for example, 90 percent of the carbon emissions the plan seeks to capture would come from existing coal-fired power plants in the Ohio River Valley. Mounds of coal piled outside a coal-fired power plant in the Ohio River Valley in 2019. The pipeline network would be twice the size of the current U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

for grid enhancements, Navigator CO2 cancels its midwest CO2 pipeline, and Germany switches on a 20 MW ‘river’ heat pump.  One of Europe’s largest units just came online , providing 20 MW of output to a 3,500 household district bordering the Rhine River, from which the pump derives its thermal energy.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2016, for example, the federal government shared radio tag information with the state, which used it to kill wolves when they left the safety of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve — destroying so many packs that it ended a 20-year study on predator-prey relationships.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Located on a peninsula on Sumatra's eastern coastline, bordered by rivers to its north and south, the Indonesian rainforest restoration project known as Restorasi Ekosistem Riau - or RER for short - is an extraordinary place. Boasting a $2.33bn price tag, it is the largest single investment in APRIL's 30-year history.

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Mearth

JANUARY 30, 2021

In either case, you will need to fill out the reside stream description, perhaps choose a category for your stream, and add some tags. This view to the southeast of Apgar Lookout exhibits a part of the valley formed by the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. Using hashtags is a good way to have your stream be discovered.

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