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Septic system waste pervasive throughout Florida’s Indian River lagoon

Envirotec Magazine

Despite the numerous residential fertilizer ordinances passed since 2011, water quality, harmful algal blooms, and seagrass loss, which has resulted in mass deaths of the threatened Florida manatee, have continued to worsen.

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Hundreds of climate-threatened cities lack adaptation plans, CDP warns

Business Green

Since CDP began seeking climate data disclosures from cities in 2011, the number providing data has shot up from 43 to over 800 last year. "We must prioritize a green recovery and ensure that cities have the necessary support to decarbonise rapidly and build resilience to tackle climate risks.

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

Renewable Energy World

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.: Contributors.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

AGreenLiving

The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

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What Abandoning Fossil Fuels Could Look Like in the Arab World

DeSmogBlog

We have seen sea-level rise threaten some islands in the Mediterranean like Djerba and Kerkennah in Tunisia. It really [affects] peoples’ bodies, their health, their environment, their air. We have seen two waves of uprisings, the first in 2011. And then Tunisia and Morocco have phosphate mining.