Tag: Air
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Fugitive Methane Emissions: The Climate Implications of U.S. Shale Gas Exports
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — In addition to habitat disruption and impacts on local air and water quality, one of the most significant implications of natural gas production is fugitive methane emissions …
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How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. — With low cost disruptive technologies like cheap, fast and efficient electric vehicles, and solar and wind technologies poised to displace Big Oil, the industry is using its hold on the Republican Party to permanently …
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Republican Senators Boycott Vote on EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy
ECOWATCH — “This latest attempt by Republicans in the Senate to derail progress to protect our air, our water and the health of our families is nothing short of cowardly …
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Scientists Warn of Emerging Impacts from Arctic Ocean Acidification
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND — The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, which commissioned the research, said in a press release that the Arctic Ocean “is rapidly accumulating carbon dioxide leading to increased ocean acidification …
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Extreme Energy and Planetary Decline
TOMDISPATCH — The very definition of success—more middle-class consumers, more car owners, more shoppers, which means more energy used, more fossil fuels burned, more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—is also, as it never would have been before, the definition of failure. The greater the “success,” the more intense the droughts, the stronger the …