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EPA · Johnson CountyOn Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency designated two types of “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law. The move will make it easier for the government to force the manufacturers of these chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or pfas, to shoulder the costs of cleaning them out of the environment. The EPA “will focus enforcement on parties who significantly contributed to the release of…See the Story
The EPA is cracking down on PFAS — but not in fertilizer
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Oil and Gas Sector · United StatesA new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder. The idea of “climate homicide” is getting attention in law schools and district attorney’s offices around the country. A paper published in Harvard Environmental Law Review last week argues that fossil fuel companies have been “killing members of the public at an accelerating rate.” It says that oi…See the Story
Taking Big Oil to court for 'climate homicide' isn't as far-fetched as it sounds
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Climate ChangeThe reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She and her family were living in Charlottesville, where Ahdoot is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. There was a heat wave. Morning temperatures hovered in the high 80s, and her son had to walk up a steep hill to get to his day camp. About an hour after he left for camp, she received a call …See the Story
Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor's visit
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United Nations · AucklandThis story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. In December, Catherine Muruparanga-Ikenn used a power tool to erase the words on a museum display of the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 document that asserted British sovereignty over Aotearoa, also known as New Zealand. For years, many Māori, like Muruparanga-Ikenn, h…See the Story
At UN conference, Indigenous peoples say little has changed after promises made a decade ago
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Climate ChangeTo build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth minerals needed to stabilize the climate: the mountain of electronic waste humanity …See the Story
Staggering quantities of energy transition metals are winding up in the garbage bin
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United States · United StatesThis story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. Sometimes when a storm hits and the waves are high in the Straits of Mackinac, which connects Great Lakes Michigan and Huron, Whitney Gravelle wonders if she’ll get a call: Maybe there will be a breach, and oil from the Line 5 pipeline under the strait will spill int…See the Story
The US still won't fully embrace the rights of Indigenous peoples, here or abroad
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StartupsThe spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. Hotter temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns, as well as extreme weather events, are already placing stress on farms and imperiling our ability to grow certain crops in certain places. Some of the first casualties will likely be sensitive, specialty crops, like the tropical berries that make one of the world’s most beloved beverages: coffee. But as…See the Story
A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’
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Texas, United States · TexasThis story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular fact about the Lone Star State: It has its own electric grid, an “energy island” that has long been uniquely isolated from the rest of the country, with just four transmission lines linking it to neighboring states. When the storm hit, Texas was unable…See the Story
Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?
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