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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis?

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets.

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Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A Massive Mississippi River Diversion Plan?

DeSmogBlog

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. He cited a dredging project that he oversaw when he was president of Plaquemines Parish that helped protect the coast from oil that was washing up from the BP oil disaster in 2011.

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Portland City Government Compromised with Oil Industry in Private, Documents Suggest

DeSmogBlog

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action.

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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. Since 2011, the state has spent more than $3 billion on it, largely to upgrade sewage and drinking water plants.

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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

“Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” Blake Scott, Waste Analytics In Ohio, state laws also enable fracking waste treatment facilities to be developed and built without any public participation.

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