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Clorox Aims Trims Greenhouse Gases By 32% and Energy Use by 17% From 2011 Baseline

Environment + Energy Leader

Clorox's key priorities include using 100% renewable energy to power its operations and reaching net-zero targets by 2050 from a 2011 baseline. Already, it has also reduced its energy use by 17%, water consumption by 22%, and solid waste to landfill by 33%. .

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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis Community At Risk—in 2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

The contamination in the region is from World War II-era processing of uranium by Mallinckrodt Chemical Company upstream, and later by the improper storage of nuclear waste at the airport (a decision made by the Department of Energy). Louis County and about 17 miles from Jana Elementary in Florissant. Louis area?

2023 346
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DEP Proposes Listing Nockamixon TCE Contamination Site In Nockamixon Twp., Bucks County On The PA Priority List Of Hazardous Sites

PA Environment Daily

The Property was reportedly used by its owner William Schulberger to dispose of drummed and bulk liquid industrial waste before being subdivided into nine parcels in 1978. In 2011, DEP initiated an interim response action resulting in the installation and maintenance of 42 carbon filtration systems coupled with institutional controls.

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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. The biggest fear was that fires would reach radioactive waste stored in above-ground holding areas that could have presented a contamination risk to the surrounding region. Are there risks to national security?

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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Union of Concerned Scientists

And a site with four such reactors could have four times the annual risk of a single unit, or an even greater risk if an accident at one reactor were to damage the others, as happened during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY

Vermont Law

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

But nobody was talking about abandoned wells in 2011. And she acknowledges that many thousands of them will not be plugged for generations, if ever. But someone, she insists, needs to speak up about the problem. Yes, I get very frustrated,” she said. And most people know what an abandoned well is now. It’s not just me.

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