Are Chile's industrial salmon farms changing the seas?

Some indigenous Chileans believe the farms are killing off marine life and also threatening their communities' future.

www.aljazeera.com

Next phase of Maryland phosphorus regulation may be delayed another year

Study finds state lacks funding, infrastructure to haul away or treat chicken litter.

www.bayjournal.com

Germany produces record amount of packaging waste

Despite good recycling habits, Germans get through a quarter ton of packaging per person each year.

www.dw.com

Ministers assess protection of 'very poor' Great Barrier Reef ahead of UN scrutiny

Australia's federal and state environment ministers meet to debate the past five years of efforts to protect the UNESCO-listed Great Barrier Reef.

www.smh.com.au

'Exponential' rise in potent greenhouse gas could prompt climate model rethink

Emissions levels of nitrous oxides have accelerated in the past decade, suggesting existing climate models may be underestimating how difficult it will be hit the Paris climate goals.

www.smh.com.au

Nearly three months after Brazil oil spill, origins remain uncertain

A spill that coated Brazilian beaches with some 4,000 tons of oil is still a mystery, with critics blasting the Bolsonaro government’s weak response and secrecy of its investigation.

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Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside: Sugarcane threatens Amazon forest and world climate; Brazilian ethanol is not clean

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is opening the Amazon and Pantanal wetland biomes to sugarcane production, risking deforestation and intensified carbon emissions.

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Land affected by Keystone pipeline leak bigger than thought

An oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota has affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported.

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How the American environmental movement dealt a blow to Alberta's oilpatch

The plan to weaken Alberta's oilsands came together in a Minneapolis hotel.

www.cbc.ca

'Take down the dam': Rio Tinto Alcan sued over B.C. river damage

Two B.C. First Nations are suing Rio Tinto Alcan, B.C., and Canada over 67 years of what they see as damage to the Nechako River.

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Brett Dolter: The path to net-zero emissions won't be easy, but here's how it can be done

To stop temperatures from continually increasing, we need to stop greenhouse gas emissions altogether.

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Chris Kennedy: Trudeau’s climate change math is incomplete

Emissions from Canada exports have tripled since 1992’s UN pact. But who’s counting?

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First of three furnaces in Nikel is now shutting down

With the closure comes a 33% cut in emissions from the infamous factory in the Russian, Norwegian borderland.

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Environmentalists hope self-imposed ban on heavy fuel oil will get regulators talking

Ships are already getting ready for new limits on emissions imposed by the International Marine Organization, but the UN body is also looking at banning heavy fuel oil entirely.

www.cbc.ca

They complained for years about their water — and were told it was safe. Now Tottenham residents know it’s been tainted all along

For more than 15 years, politicians and health officials have known the tap water in Tottenham contained suspected carcinogens called Trihalomethanes.

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Incredible floating resort island off the Ivory Coast is made from 700,000 pieces of plastic waste

Mr Becker's 'L'île Flottante' - or 'Floating Island' - resort bobs about the surface of the lagoon in Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, on a platform made of around 700,000 plastic bottles and debris.

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60% of Superfund sites could be hit by climate change, new government report finds

At least 945 toxic waste sites across the country face escalating risks from rising seas, more intense inland flooding, voracious forest fires and other climate-fueled disasters, according to a new study from a congressional watchdog agency.

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"Here we are again:" Decades after PBB crisis, echos seen in current PFAS crisis

In 1973, an accident at a chemical plant in the small town of St. Louis in the middle of Michigan's mitten triggered one of the largest mass poisonings in American history.

www.michiganradio.org

How one of the world's dirtiest cities is emerging from the smog

Beijing is falling off the list of the world's most polluted cities - air quality across China isn't looking too bad, either.

www.inverse.com

Sydney smoke: Worst air quality in the world due to bushfires

Sydney’s air quality is today the worst in the world at almost 30 times safe levels.

www.dailytelegraph.com.au

Mine waste gift bags pulled from shelves amid EPA warning

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Environmental regulators have put a halt to a Montana business association’s sale of sandwich bags of mining waste advertised as a “Bag O’Slag.” Environmental Protection...

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Pennsylvania families demand investigation into rare cancers

The families of young people diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer confronted Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday over what they called his administration's insufficient response to a health crisis they blame on pollution from the shale gas industry.

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Many native Americans can't get clean water, report finds

A new report from DigDeep and the U.S. Water Alliance found race is the strongest predictor of water and sanitation access. This has implications for public health.

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Got Science? Podcast: Scaling mountains to ban toxic chemicals in pajamas

Scientist and adventurer Arlene Blum discusses her research on cancer-causing chemicals in kid's pajamas in the 70s and chemical safety today.

www.ucsusa.org

How an old law is helping fight new plastic problems

New legislative efforts to ban plastics are important, but a recent court ruling in Texas reminds us that enforcing existing laws is a crucial part of the plastics fight.

therevelator.org

Uneasy state of affairs: Scotland's use of American shale gas

Despite a ban on fracking, Scotland imports shale gas from Pennsylvania for its plastics industry. This has some activists saying 'no fracking here, no fracking anywhere.'

www.alleghenyfront.org

Putting 'health of all species' in danger, Trump EPA proposal guts restrictions on toxic herbicide linked to birth defects

Environmental and public health advocacy groups expressed alarm Friday after the Trump administration moved to increase the allowable level in U.S. waterways of atrazine, a common herbicide linked to hermaphroditic amphibians and birth defects, cancer, and other harmful health effects in humans.

www.commondreams.org

What the latest science says about oil, gas and human health

Health and environmental scientists who specialize in the potential impacts of oil and gas production will discuss their work on Tuesday at the annual Shale & Public Health conference, hosted by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.

www.wesa.fm

Toomey talks pro-fracking legislation, impeachment on Pittsburgh stop

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey believes that presidents should not be allowed to unilaterally ban fracking — and in the wake of Democratic promises to do just that, recently introduced a Senate resolution emphasizing that point.

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PennEast will appeal to U.S. Supreme Court over lower court’s adverse ruling

Company looking to overturn decision that denied its bid to condemn state-owned lands for $1 billion pipeline project.

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Future owner of PES refinery could be decided as soon as January

On Thursday, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Kevin Gross approved rules for the sale process.

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Aliquippa residents question if the promised boom from the Shell cracker plant will benefit them

Community members raised concerns Thursday about whether its residents will benefit from the economic boom that corporate and government leaders say will come after the construction of Shell's ethane cracker plant is complete.

www.publicsource.org

You are looking at a map of future dumpsites for conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater if road dumping is approved in Pennsylvania

The primary areas to be affected would be unpaved dirt and gravel roads anywhere there is conventional oil and gas drilling in the state.

paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com

The trouble with biofuels

The Trump administration has promised to expand their use, which would make farmers happy. But are consumers aware of biofuels’ potential consequences?

therevelator.org

California and other states sue Trump administration for the right to require more fuel-efficient cars

The states are arguing that the Trump administration doesn't have the legal authority to strip California of its longstanding authority to set strict fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks.

www.washingtonpost.com

Russian crackdown catches Russian indigenous activists

Independent voices are being quashed all over Russia through court rulings, threats — and now document glitches.