DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In Willowbrook, Illinois, state officials linked higher rates of lymphatic cancer among girls and women to their homes’ proximity to a facility that emitted ethylene oxide.

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