Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks. Over its short lifetime, the program has already transformed many segments of the fuels market.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2025
Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 15, 2021
for air pollution. Baltimore has two active trash incinerators and decades of pollution from both active and decommissioned industrial factories. A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […].
PA Environment Daily
MAY 1, 2025
Absorbent material and booms were in place along a path of brown staining from the release to help cleanup the waste and preventing it from traveling any further. The mixture traveled down slope from the tank for about 210 feet until it was stopped by a fallen tree from getting into any bodies of water.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 8, 2025
Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. Relying on market dynamics alone risks wasted materials, unsafe and unregulated dismantling, and a lack of accountability for proper disposal.
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 28, 2025
The Brampton facility owner recently completed a second Environmental Screening Report to get its proposal to expand annual waste burning capacity nearly four times to 900,000 tonnes per year rubber stamped by Queens Park. The expansion would mean a steep increase in highly toxic pollution linked to serious health problems.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
While all of us are susceptible to the effects of pollution, children, infants, and fetuses in utero are uniquely sensitive to pollutants as their young brains grow and develop. Special protection from pollutants is needed because of the speed and timing of brain development early in life, before and after birth.
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