Saturday, May 25, 2024

Community scientists have new EPA guidelines for sampling microplastic pollution. How useful are they?

The protocol acknowledges that because "microplastics smaller than [one millimeter] in size (such as microbeads) are more difficult to find... more sophisticated technology is required to conclusively identify them."

Voter suppression is the new climate denial

Will the proposed Freedom to Vote Act, John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act or any other version of voting-rights legislation currently stalled in Congress and the Senate solve these problems?

‘This is an emergency’: Oxfam says rich nations’ $100 billion climate pledge not good...

“Time is running out for rich nations to build trust and deliver on their unmet target.”

Ahead of COP26, top Biden appointees pushing natural gas are undermining his climate credibility

The Biden administration’s commitment to natural gas, also known as fossil gas, isn’t a commitment to reaching net-zero by 2050, says a researcher at Global Witness; it’s a promise to the oil and gas industry that they’re still in control. As a major climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, approaches, the Biden administration must urgently change course on fossil gas.

The US and China must find a way to cooperate at COP26 and beyond....

Biden has pledged to reverse the climate policy damage wrought by the Trump presidency; he will pursue ambitious national initiatives and international cooperation, including with China.

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows

Experts say that policymakers do not currently account for the impact plastics currently have on climate change and that the issue is flying under the radar.

The path to a livable future

For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the most forceful and persuasive voices confronting injustice, inequity, and the threat posed by human-caused climate chaos to civilization and the Earth.

Corporate giants promote climate action, but work with oil lobbyists in state capitols

The overlap raises questions about the sincerity of corporate climate commitments.

Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030, poses dire threat...

"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."

Fossil fuel plant run by William Koch at heart of EPA investigation into racism...

“My hope is that they will thoroughly investigate their emissions and their impact on the community and draw what we believe to be an inescapable conclusion that Oxbow is an eminent danger to the life and health of people in Port Arthur and southeast Texas.”