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Canada’s new Environment Minister must clean up the plastic mess, and quick

Enviromental Defense

It goes beyond the bans, vowing rules requiring new plastic packaging to include significant recycled content, a 90% recycling target for beverage containers and a $100 million fund to support reuse and recycling infrastructure. gigatons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the world’s atmosphere in 2017 alone. India and Russia.

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Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Enviromental Defense

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. The world is trying to get away from burning fossil fuels for energy because it’s a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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The European Commission’s industrial carbon management strategy: ambitious and risky plans to achieve net-zero

Law Columbia

However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.

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Materials and nanotechnology: highlights of 2021

Physics World

The world produces than 40 million tonnes of electronic waste each year, yet only about 20% of this e-waste is recycled. While interest is growing in electric aeroplanes, much of the current environmental focus is on making fossil-fuel driven aircraft more energy efficient. Urban mining gets quicker and cleaner.

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator

PA Environment Daily

DEP inspection report ] On October 24, 2023, DEP inspected the WT 3428 2 conventional gas well operated by Pennhills Resources LLC in Bradford Township, McKean County and found it was recently completed and is now venting gas to the atmosphere. Drill cuttings were placed in a lined pit onsite. Martin, Sen.

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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 -- Company Tries To Limit DEP Investigation; Unauthorized Water Withdrawals; Can’t Pay For Reno Cleanup; Venting Gas Wells; More Abandoned Conventional Wells

PA Environment Daily

The casing on both wells was open to the atmosphere, but nothing was venting and there were holes in the casing near ground level. Three of the wells-- WT 2850 Lot 8 29, Lot 8 31 and Lot 10 24 were found to be newly drilled and venting gas to the atmosphere, a “normal” operation to clear out any small debris in the well left from drilling.