"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study"
"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."
Source: Guardian, 01/10/2023
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"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066"
"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2023
"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe"
"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.
Source: E&E News, 01/06/2023
"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay"
"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 01/06/2023
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States as Year Begins"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/04/2023
"EPA Investigating Colorado For Discriminatory Air Pollution"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Colorado’s regulation of air pollution from industrial facilities discriminates against Hispanic residents and other racial minorities, according to a letter released Wednesday."
Source: AP, 01/02/2023
Illinois 3M Plant Was Worst Emitter of Climate-Killing Chemical in 2021
"At a sprawling 3M chemical manufacturing complex here, where the company makes adhesives for Post-it notes, golf clubs and LCD displays, several hundred pounds of a potent climate killer are vented into the atmosphere each day."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/02/2023
"Electric Cars Are Taking Off, but When Will Battery Recycling Follow?"
"Many companies and investors are eager to recycle batteries, but it could take a decade or more before enough used lithium-ion batteries become available."
Source: NYTimes, 12/23/2022
"High Number Of Mosquitoes Found With Mutation That Resists Insecticides"
"The insecticides that target disease-spreading mosquitoes are running into nature’s ultimate defense mechanism: evolution. Scientists reported Wednesday that mosquitoes in Cambodia and Vietnam increasingly carry a mutation that makes them resistant to a commonly deployed insecticide."
Source: Washington Post, 12/22/2022
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