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U.S. Supreme Court Expected to Gut Emission Controls as Climate Scientists Petition for Plan B
U.S. Supreme Court Expected to Gut Emission Controls as Climate Scientists Petition for Plan B | The Energy Mix — Read on http://www.theenergymix.com/2022/06/26/u-s-supreme-court-expected-to-gut-emission-controls-as-climate-scientists-petition-for-plan-b/ Can Failed State live up to abiding by existing laws to classify greenhouse gases as poisons? The … Continue reading
Cooking with gas? Research finds health and emission risks even when stoves are off – ABC News
Most of the emissions from gas stovetops happen when they’re not in use, and they’re also a risk to health and the climate, researchers find. — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-01-27/gas-cooker-methane-leak-climate-change-asthma/100777076 More long hidden bad news about gas indoors…
Australia COVID: Kevin Rudd calls for ACMA to be abolished over Sky News COVID-19 claims
Australia COVID: Kevin Rudd calls for ACMA to be abolished over Sky News COVID-19 claims — Read on amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/monumentally-failed-rudd-calls-for-media-watchdog-to-be-abolished-over-sky-news-covid-19-claims-20210812-p58i79.html
Fish supplies face rising threat from algal blooms
10 June, 2021 – Fish farms, and the protein supply of over three billion people, are at increasing risk from algal blooms. — Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/fish-supplies-face-rising-threat-from-algal-blooms/
AGL takes Greenpeace to court over climate campaign
Coal industry giant AGL attempts to silence Greenpeace for exposing its devastating ongoing damage to the environment and human health. — Read on independentaustralia.net/ Imagine AGL disputing they’re biggest polluter in Oz?
Fuel’s paradise
Australia lags by more than a decade in tackling the health effects of low-quality petrol — Read on insidestory.org.au/fuels-paradise/ How smugly is this, after 5 years investigation to 2018… …”environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, declared that “Australia’s petrol quality is the lowest … Continue reading
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Tagged health hazard, petrol, pollution
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TAKE ACTION: Send the EPA an OVERDUE Notice
It has been almost THREE YEARS since the EPA began their coal power station licence review. Now it has stalled without explanation. — Read on environmentvictoria.org.au/action/send-the-epa-an-overdue-notice/ In a country with emission limits for residential slow combustion wood fires, wouldn’t you … Continue reading
Clean ships needed now to cut polluting emissions
25 June, 2020 − The vessels plying the world’s oceans release huge volumes of polluting emissions. Existing fleets badly need a clean-up. — Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/clean-ships-needed-now-to-cut-polluting-emissions/
Pollution in Deepest ocean trenches, high levels
PHOTO: Pollution levels in amphipods in the Mariana Trench were higher than in estuaries of polluted rivers in China (Wikimedia Commons: Daiju Azuma) An interesting item which reminds of reference by Tim Flannery in book Atmosphere of Hope, about worries that emissions … Continue reading
Oceans de-oxygenated
Ocean anoxia – widespread oxygen-starved dead zones in oceans – did the killing of ocean life in several mass extinctions of Earth’s past. Anoxia went hand-in-hand with CO2emissions, rising global temperatures, and (often) ocean acidification, a situation which today’s climate change is recreating … Continue reading
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Tagged climate emergency declaration, marine, ocean, pollution, warming
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