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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

Setting aside the anomalous, albeit devastating, Deepwater Horizon oil spill — which in 2010 contaminated the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of oil — the National Academies says spills since 2010 have only contributed a relatively “minor” amount of oil pollution to the oceans. .

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise.

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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

Around 2010, authorities in Surat began a process that strengthened understanding of how more intensive periods of projected rainfall due to climate change would magnify the risk of floods. The flooding was caused by an emergency release from the upstream Ukai reservoir.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

East Coast around 2010, and acknowledged the risks of climate change, but lobbied behind the scenes to obstruct regulation. ExxonMobil lawsuit, while the company funded a campaign to deny climate change in public, in private it relied on climate science and models to “prospect for fossil fuels” and “protect fossil fuel infrastructure.”.

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This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

GreenBiz

The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s. The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2020 was 3.92 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Following the minimum seasonal extent, which occurred on September 15, ice growth quickly began along in the northern Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas. Sea level rising (not because of melting).