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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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Louisiana LNG Could Be ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Local Fishermen

DeSmogBlog

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. Displaced Again Living in the shadow of Calcasieu Pass, Dardar and his wife began having health problems.

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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