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

DeSmogBlog

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. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today.

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

Grist

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.