"Waste Pickers Collect Food Waste, Help Combat Climate Change"
"Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon city just north of Manila every morning except Sundays, collecting bags of segregated garbage."
Source: AP, 03/21/2023
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"States Cannot Block Hazardous Waste From Ohio Derailment, EPA Says"
"U.S. states cannot block shipments of hazardous waste from a Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment to licensed disposal sites, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday."
Source: Reuters, 03/20/2023
Plan To Incinerate Soil From Ohio Derailment Is ‘Horrifying’ - Expert
"Contaminated soil from the site around the East Palestine train wreck in Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region."
Source: Guardian, 03/06/2023
From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story
Industrial hog farmers tout swine biogas as a clean, green energy source, but others point to its messy side. A young journalist who investigated the underreported stench of environmental racism associated with this technology learned valuable lessons along the way to producing a feature story that won her a Society of Environmental Journalists’ award for outstanding student reporting.
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Tijuana River Sewage May Be Contaminating Air Along S. Calif. Coast: Study
"Chronic coastal contamination from the Tijuana River can end up in the atmosphere as “sea spray aerosol” — spreading far beyond the San Diego County beaches where it has long polluted the water, a new study has found."
Source: The Hill, 03/03/2023
EPA Coal Ash Settlement Raises Hopes For Cleanup Beyond Lake Michigan
"A settlement between environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could for the first time impose regulations on hundreds of coal ash sites nationwide that are not covered by 2015 federal coal ash rules."
Source: Energy News Network, 03/02/2023
Biden Adm Global Plastics Plan Dubbed ‘Low Ambition’ and ‘Underwhelming’
"Critics are describing the Biden administration’s opening position in a United Nations effort to reach a global treaty or agreement to end plastic waste as vague and weak, despite its recognition of a need to end plastic pollution by 2040."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/28/2023
"Plastic Consumption On Course To Nearly Double By 2050 - Research"
"Plastic use in G20 countries is on course to nearly double by the middle of the century unless a comprehensive and legally binding global treaty to curb consumption is drawn up, according to research published on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 02/27/2023
"U.S. EPA Announces $1 Billion For New Hazardous Waste Cleanups"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday announced 22 new sites that will benefit from $1 billion in funding from a program designed to remediate hazardous waste sites, such as landfills, mines and manufacturing facilities."
Source: Reuters, 02/13/2023
Epic Struggles Ahead in 2023 on Energy Transition, Pollution
In our annual analysis of what’s ahead on the environment beat in 2023, there are some things to count on: worsening climate disasters and continued politicking over energy transitions, but also regulatory action on greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention on “forever chemicals”). Other things are less clear: environmental rulings by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court, energy impacts of war in Europe and the effectiveness of COP28 and treaty talks on plastic pollution. Read the full overview and get more in our “2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment” special report.
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