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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.” Shell’s interest in climate research continued, nevertheless.

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? Nuclear’s day in the sun #177

Climate Tech VC

  In the US , a 2023 Pew Research Center survey shows 57% of Americans favor nuclear power, a 14% increase over 2020. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September. for rail from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Read more about the tug of war for raw metals here ].

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The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate

DeSmogBlog

Sam Graves (R-MO) proposed a bill that “modernizes” the environmental review process as part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess environmental impacts before approving major infrastructure projects. Another tranche of bills is aimed at supporting nuclear energy.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5