EPA Gives Chicago Decades to Replace Lead Pipes, Leaving Many at Risk
"Advocates say vulnerable communities can’t afford to wait 20 years for service line replacement and that more outreach is required."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/24/2024
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Lead Paint Upended This Boy’s Life. Now EPA Will Eliminate The Threat
"The Environmental Protection Agency is about to issue strict limits on lead dust, which poses a threat to millions of children across the United States."
Source: Washington Post, 10/24/2024
"EPA Cancels Pesticide Shown To Be Harmful To Unborn Babies"
"Citing a need to protect the unborn babies of pregnant women, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday banned a pesticide used to kill weeds on farms, golf courses and athletic fields."
Source: The New Lede, 10/23/2024
"Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say"
"Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient." "Researchers at the United States Geological Survey and the Arkansas government announced on Monday that they had found a trove of lithium, a critical raw material for electric vehicle batteries, in an underground brine reservoir in Arkansas."
Source: NYTimes, 10/22/2024
Canadian Regulator Colluded With A Pesticide Maker To Silence Researcher
"The federal pesticide regulator collaborated with an agrochemical giant to undermine research by a prominent Canadian scientist to stave off an impending ban of a class of pesticides harmful to human brains and sperm and deadly to bees, insects and birds, Canada's National Observer has found."
Source: National Observer, 10/21/2024
Phillips 66 Refinery Closure A Welcome Surprise To Activists
"For more than a century, the sprawling Phillips 66 oil refinery complex has dominated a vast tract of southern Los Angeles County."
Source: LA Times, 10/18/2024
"These Scientists Tested Dolphin Breath. They Found Plastic."
"Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been detected in the breath of dolphins."
Source: NYTimes, 10/17/2024
San Diego County Residents Sue Over Alleged Sewage Treatment Plant Failures
"Residents of Imperial Beach in southern San Diego County filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the operators of an international wastewater treatment plant — alleging that the site has failed to contain a cross-border crisis that has long contaminated their community."
Source: The Hill, 10/17/2024
"How Farms Are Fighting A Pesky Almond Moth Without Pesticides"
"Every year, navel orangeworms eat through roughly 2% of California’s almonds before they can make it to grocery store shelves. With climate change threatening to make the situation worse, researchers are hoping to sterilize millions of moths a day with radiation and drop them from airplanes."
Source: LA Times, 10/11/2024
Wisconsin Estimates Around 40 Percent Of Private Wells Contain Pesticides
"The state estimates one or more pesticides are found in around 43 percent of 800,000 private wells in Wisconsin, and more than half of the pesticides detected aren’t regulated in groundwater by the state or federal governments."
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, 10/11/2024
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