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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. EN: I mentioned a 2020 UCS report in my introduction that estimated that that nitrogen fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico has caused as much as $2.4

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gas stoves, which are in 38 percent of US households, not only emit methane, but also toxic pollutants besides NO2 that are associated with respiratory ailments and cancer. A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas.

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