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Oct 19 2023
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'Green scum' plants floating in Willamette not related to pollution: expert
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The once-mysterious green “scum” that was first reported to be floating through Portland on the Willamette River earlier is still lingering in the area. However, local experts say that the species of aquatic plant isn’t harmful to the environment and should disappear with the next big rainstorm. Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences Professor Emeritus
KOIN 6Oct 25 2023
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EPA Awards $1 Million to San Juan to Tackle Climate Pollution
SAN JUAN - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1 million from the agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program to the Municipality of San Juan to develop climate action plans with innovative strategies to cut climate pollution and scale San Juan metropolitan area’s clean energy economy. The funding is in addition to the $3 million that the Government of
Environmental Protection AgencyApr 25 2024
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Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest
The Seattle TimesApr 24 2024
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This tribe will gladly accept clean energy funding, even if Wyoming won't
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Wyoming governor Mark Gordon told the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 that the state would not be applying for federal grant money to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, he left most communities in the state without access to potentially transformative
Mother JonesApr 24 2024
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Harrisburg area’s air quality is among worst on East Coast: report
The Harrisburg metro area had the second-most serious air pollution levels in the mid-Atlantic region during 2020-2022, with Dauphin County’s annual average exceeding new federal air quality standards, according to the American Lung Association. The ALA on Wednesday released its latest “State of the Air” study, which analyzes pollutant data over a three-year span, pulling numbers from air
The Patriot-NewsNov 24 2023
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UM Flathead Lake bio station lands $6.6M EPA grant to fight pesticide pollution
FLATHEAD LAKE — The University of Montana recently was awarded $6.6 million from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Columbia River Basin Restoration Program for pesticide reduction. Dr. Rachel Malison, an assistant professor with UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station, will use the funding to develop and implement a comprehensive and collaborative Pesticide Stewardship Partnership Program
MissoulianSep 11 2023
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Michigan AG sues Grand Rapids airport over PFAS pollution
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — In 2018, residents in a neighborhood near Gerald R. Ford International Airport began to find toxic PFAS compounds in their well water. In 2020, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) determined the airport was liable for that contamination and began negotiating a cleanup order. This month, the state attorney general filed a lawsuit, claiming
MLive.comApr 21 2024
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Greenpoint development to be built on top of toxic soil too deep to remove
A new apartment complex is rising atop one of Brooklyn’s most polluted sites after its developers and state environmental regulators abandoned their plan to fully remove the deeply contaminated soil underground. Crews earlier this month began pouring the foundation for an eight-story complex called NuHart West, named after the former NuHart Plastic Manufacturing site on Dupont Street in
GothamistAug 25 2023
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Minnesota state and tribal leaders meet with the EPA to discuss air pollution
Minnesota state and tribal leaders met with members of the Environment Protection Agency In Shakopee on Wednesday to discuss how they aim to use $4 million in pollution reduction grants.
In part due to the Inflation Reduction Act -- as well as aggressive investment from the Biden-Harris Administration -- the EPA is now offering federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to states. The
CBS News (Online)Apr 25 2024
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Hillbilly Ubermensch
Audio doppelgänger Chris Stirewalt joins Jonah on today’s episode of The Remnant to venture through the polluted backwaters of media conglomerates and uncover a whole host of “whataboutism” garbage: the rise of antisemitism on campuses, the media bias in covering these protests, and the terrorist chants coming from the mouths of these students. The two also opine on the faces adorning a far-
The Dispatch