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1 week, 6 days ago

New Jersey targets plastic packaging that fills landfills and pollutes

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is aiming to drastically reduce the amount of packaging material — particularly plastic — that is thrown away after the package is opened. The New Jersey bill seeks to move away from plastics and imposes fees on manufacturers and distributors for a $120 million fund to bolster recycling and reduce solid waste. He called the …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Akin to Haryana, Punjab-UP farmers beginning to managing stubble: Chouhan

Hindustan Times

Union agriculture, farmers’ welfare and rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday appreciated the farmers in Haryana for managing stubble well and said that now the farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are also moving in the same direction. Chouhan was speaking to media at Indian Institute of Wheat of Barley Reaserch on his day-long visit to Karnal, where …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

What to know about the plastic pollution crisis as treaty talks conclude in South Korea

Associated Press

BUSAN, South Korea — The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global plastic pollution crisis. Their meeting concludes Sunday or early Monday in Busan, South Korea, where many environmental organizations have also flocked to push for a treaty to address the volume of production and toxic chemicals used in plastic products. Greenpeace said …

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1 month ago

As fast fashion’s waste pollutes Africa’s environment, designers in Ghana are finding a solution

Associated Press

ACCRA, Ghana — In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used and low-quality apparel imported from the West. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print A woman dressed …

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7 months, 1 week ago

The £4m fat cat water boss giving you diarrhoea: As her customers fall ill, how South West Water CEO Susan Davy has pocketed millions while her firm pollutes beaches and rivers (but don't worry, her D

Daily Mail

The boss of Pennon which owns South West Water has raked in £4million since taking the top job in 2020, MailOnline can reveal today. Susan Davy, 54, is the chief executive of Pennon Group which owns South West Water Pennon boss Susan Davy gives evidence at the House of Commons in October 2021 Davy took home £543,000 for the 2022/23 …

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8 months ago

Contractors Challenging Tender Conditions Via PIL Pollute Purity Of The Stream Of Public Interest Litigation: Bombay High Court

Live Law

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that permitting contractors to file PILs challenging tender conditions is a sheer abuse of process of the court, and “pollutes purity of the stream of PIL”. “However, permitting a contractor to file a PIL petition challenging the conditions of a tender, in our opinion, is nothing but a sheer abuse of process of …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Steve Coogan blasts water company ‘greenwashing’ over Lake Windermere pollution

The Independent

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

UN experts decry water woes in Guadeloupe and say scientists and activists are being censored

The Independent

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10 months ago

Kerala will conduct gender audit and ensure equal pay for women, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan

New Indian Express

As per the National Survey on Higher Education, the state has the highest participation of women in the higher education sector, he said, adding to his point about how it must also translate to more women joining the formal workforce. Kerala was also the first to implement gender budgeting for women in 1997 in local government bodies, the chief minister …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change

LA Times

You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense storms? As The Times’ Grace Toohey wrote last week, scientists have found that because of rising temperatures, a catastrophic storm “is more likely to happen and to be more intense, with a 2% chance of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

As Yamuna pollution makes headlines ahead of Chhath Puja, AAP repeats its old blame game

Op India

Blame is the weapon of the incompetent. A prime example of this is Delhi Education Minister Atishi’s statement blaming Uttar Pradesh for the alarming pollution in the Yamuna River. In the next two days, the toxic foam will completely vanish…But I would like to urge the Uttar Pradesh government to not send its polluted water to Delhi.” #WATCH | On …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Louisiana’s new governor is one of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest defenders

Raw Story

This story was originally published by Grist. Landry, who has served as Louisiana’s attorney general for almost eight years, is one of the most stalwart opponents of President Joe Biden’s climate policies, and he won election this fall after calling climate change a “hoax” and defending polluters. In response to Landry’s gubernatorial victory, the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, an …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Simhachalam Pushkarini polluted with drain water

Deccan Chronicle

VISAKHAPATNAM: Simhachalam temple’s Varaha Pushkarini has been polluted due to heavy rains. When heavy rain hits Simhachalam and its surroundings all the drain water of old Adavivaram comes to Varaha Pushkarini and pollutes its water. Simhachalam EO office says, “Varaha Pushkarini is polluted due to old Adavivaram junction drain water.” The devotees come from combined Godavari districts, north Andhra and …

Water Devotees Drain Water Holy Dip Simhachalam Varaha Pushkarini

1 year, 7 months ago

Non-customary practice of dumping clothes by pilgrims pollutes Vellingiri Hills

The Hindu

The practice of pilgrims abandoning their clothes after taking a bath in the Andisunai stream in the Vellingiri Hills in the Coimbatore district is polluting the reserve forest which is part of the ecologically-important Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The dumping - a non-customary practice - continues despite the advice made by the frontline staff of the Forest Department stationed at a …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Cooking pollutes your home and increases your health risks — but better ventilation will help

Salon

Most of us will spend more than two-thirds of our lives at home. Using your cooker hood is one of the most effective ways to reduce your exposure to particulate matter while cooking. How to reduce your exposure when cooking There are, however, several simple tips that people should follow to reduce their exposure to poor air quality when cooking. …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Editorial: Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed

LA Times

Gasoline was selling for nearly $8 per gallon on June 1, 2022, at a Chevron gas station located at the intersection of Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles. Last year’s spikes hit Californians especially hard, because they already pay the nation’s highest gas prices, and saw them jump even higher, reaching more than $8 a …

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2 years ago

Editorial: Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet

LA Times

Gavin Newsom’s proposal to penalize excessive oil refinery profits is a relatively straightforward effort to prevent price gouging that reached new heights this year as gas prices in the state spiked to more than $6.40 a gallon. “If you want to achieve your climate goals, you need to have a price-gouging penalty to prevent the oil companies from weaponizing gas …

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2 years, 2 months ago

5 Ways To Protect Your Hair and Scalp from Smoke During Festivities

News 18

Diwali is a festival of lights, but unfortunately, along with all the glowing diyas, there are also firecrackers and with that comes pollution. “The bursting of crackers during the festivities affects people residing in urban areas who face a greater exposure and risk of chemical damage leading to a degraded level of hair protein," says Ravina Jain, Founder & CEO, …

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2 years, 2 months ago

World War II shipwreck still pollutes the North Sea’s ocean floor 80 years later

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — A World War II shipwreck is still leaking explosives and other toxic elements into the ocean floor of the North Sea more than 80 years after it was sunk. “The research performed within this project will be used to develop a decision-making tool to asses the potential environmental risk a …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Newsom signs nation’s most sweeping law to phase out single-use plastics and packaging waste

LA Times

A trash can overflows with plastic waste at a park. The new law, he said, would “grow markets, create incentives for investment, and give tools to other states and countries to help play their part in this fight.” For the past six months, a team of roughly two dozen negotiators — mostly women — hammered out language designed to reduce …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Sustainable menstruation tips: Initiatives every menstruator should take towards saving the environment

Hindustan Times

Using sustainable and environment-friendly products is the need of the hour to protect and restore nature and its resources and while menstruation is a testing time for menstruators with all cramps, headaches and mood swings, it is also a testing time for our planet. Sustainable menstruation tips: Initiatives every menstruator should take towards saving the environment In an interview with …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Ecuador oil spill pollutes river, protected Amazon area: Ministry

Al Jazeera

Ecuador’s environment ministry says pipeline spill is ‘major’ event and requests company measure its full impact. An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a protected area of the nation’s Amazon rainforest and contaminated a river that supplies water to Indigenous communities, Ecuador’s environment ministry said. “Once again we have been polluted and we are fighting about it with OCP,” …

Oil Amazon Ministry River Spill Coca Ocp Ecuador

3 years, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka launches probe after burning ship pollutes beaches

Al Jazeera

Colombo says it has started a criminal investigation after the ship swamped the country’s coast with microplastics. Sri Lanka launched a criminal probe on Sunday into a huge container ship fire that has swamped the island nation’s coast with plastic pollution causing probably one of its worst marine disasters in history. Tonnes of microplastic granules have inundated the South Asian …

Sri Lanka Ship

4 years, 2 months ago

Biden calls for ‘transition’ from oil, GOP sees opening

Associated Press

Democrat Joe Biden’s remark that he would “transition” away from oil in the U.S. in favor of renewable energy drew quick attention Thursday night from President Donald Trump, who saw it as a boon to his election chances in key states. “I would transition away from the oil industry, yes,” Biden said in the presidential debate’s closing minutes under peppering …

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New Jersey targets plastic packaging that fills landfills and pollutes

Akin to Haryana, Punjab-UP farmers beginning to managing stubble: Chouhan

What to know about the plastic pollution crisis as treaty talks conclude in South Korea

As fast fashion’s waste pollutes Africa’s environment, designers in Ghana are finding a solution

The £4m fat cat water boss giving you diarrhoea: As her customers fall ill, how South West Water CEO Susan Davy has pocketed millions while her firm pollutes beaches and rivers (but don't worry, her D

Contractors Challenging Tender Conditions Via PIL Pollute Purity Of The Stream Of Public Interest Litigation: Bombay High Court

Steve Coogan blasts water company ‘greenwashing’ over Lake Windermere pollution

UN experts decry water woes in Guadeloupe and say scientists and activists are being censored

Kerala will conduct gender audit and ensure equal pay for women, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change

As Yamuna pollution makes headlines ahead of Chhath Puja, AAP repeats its old blame game

Louisiana’s new governor is one of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest defenders

Simhachalam Pushkarini polluted with drain water

Non-customary practice of dumping clothes by pilgrims pollutes Vellingiri Hills

Cooking pollutes your home and increases your health risks — but better ventilation will help

Editorial: Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed

Editorial: Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet

5 Ways To Protect Your Hair and Scalp from Smoke During Festivities

World War II shipwreck still pollutes the North Sea’s ocean floor 80 years later

Newsom signs nation’s most sweeping law to phase out single-use plastics and packaging waste

Sustainable menstruation tips: Initiatives every menstruator should take towards saving the environment

Ecuador oil spill pollutes river, protected Amazon area: Ministry

Sri Lanka launches probe after burning ship pollutes beaches

Biden calls for ‘transition’ from oil, GOP sees opening