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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. A salt-affected corn plant on a field in Somerset County, MD. Browning, yellowing, and wilting leaves are a sign of high soil salinity.

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Environmental Health Project: Lois Bower-Bjornson Shares Her First-Hand Experiences With Shale Gas Health, Environmental Impacts In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

My work began when my daughter was born in 2009. This year, in addition to the trihalomethane notice, we received notices of exceeding lead levels and notices above radiation levels. My children began to experience negative health impacts from the oil and gas industry.

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The Overshoot Commission Addresses Geoengineering

Legal Planet

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County

PA Environment Daily

There were two shale gas wells on Mohr B drilled in March of 2009 and May of 2011. These fluids were stored in onsite pits for over nine months after the completion of drilling, in violation of site restoration regulations,” according to the 2017 consent order and agreement with Greylock. Read more here.

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Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, Abandoned Wells

PA Environment Daily

DEP is inspecting shale gas wells drilled in the early days of shale development-- 2009 to 2013-- to determine their status which is resulting in most of the violations. .] -- Record Number Of Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations 2024: Record number of violations for abandoning shale gas wells in 2024-- 47. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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The Evolving Legal Landscape for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

Parties to those instruments are set to meet in London next week—from October 2 to 6—to discuss the regulation of so-called “marine geoengineering activities” (among other things). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.