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Re: Pollution
« Reply #435 on: November 14, 2016, 07:17:15 pm »


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Re: Pollution
« Reply #436 on: November 14, 2016, 10:46:54 pm »
Slashed Budgets and Toxic Chemicals: Planning for Environmental Carnage Under Donald Trump’s EPA

Sharon Lerner

November 14 2016, 12:22 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/14/slashed-budgets-and-toxic-chemicals-planning-for-environmental-carnage-under-donald-trumps-epa/
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« Reply #437 on: November 25, 2016, 01:19:45 pm »
Energy| Nov. 25, 2016 08:41AM EST


Another Major Norwegian Investor Divests   From Dakota Access Pipeline

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Re: Pollution
« Reply #438 on: December 01, 2016, 05:02:26 pm »
Trump Watch  | Dec. 01, 2016 08:57AM EST

2,300 Scientists to Trump: We’re Watching You


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More than 2,300 scientists, including 22 Nobel laureates, released a letter on Wednesday to Donald Trump and the 115th Congress with a wish list that includes respect of scientific evidence and letting scientists work without political or private-sector interference for the public's benefit on policies such as climate change.

"Congress and the Trump administration should ensure our nation's bedrock public health and environmental laws—such as the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act—retain a strong scientific foundation," the letter reads.

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An Open Letter to President-Elect Trump and the 115th Congress

Scientific knowledge has played a critical role in making the United States a powerful and prosperous nation and improving the health and well-being of Americans and people around the world. From disease outbreaks to climate change to national security to technology innovation, people benefit when our nation's policies are informed by science unfettered by inappropriate political or corporate influence.

To build on this legacy and extend the benefits of science to all people, including Americans who have been left behind, the federal government must support and rely on science as a key input for crafting public policy. Policy makers and the public alike require access to high-quality scientific information to serve the public interest. There are several actions Congress and the Trump administration should take to strengthen the role that science plays in policy making.

First, creating a strong and open culture of science begins at the top. Federal agencies should be led by officials with demonstrated track records of respecting science as a critical component of decision making. Further, recognizing that diversity makes science stronger, administration officials should welcome and encourage all scientists regardless of religious background, race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Second, Congress and the Trump administration should ensure our nation's bedrock public health and environmental laws—such as the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act—retain a strong scientific foundation, and that agencies are able to freely collect and draw upon scientific data to effectively carry out statutory responsibilities established by these laws. They should also safeguard the independence of those outside the government who provide scientific advice.

Third, Congress and the Trump administration should adhere to high standards of scientific integrity and independence in responding to current and emerging public health and environmental threats. Decision makers and the public need to know what the best-available scientific evidence is, not what vested interests might wish it to be. Federally funded scientists must be able to develop and share their findings free from censorship or manipulation based on politics or ideology. These scientists should, without fear of reprisal or retaliation, have the freedom and responsibility to:

•conduct their work without political or private-sector interference

•candidly communicate their findings to Congress, the public, and their scientific peers

•publish their work and participate meaningfully in the scientific community

•disclose misrepresentation, censorship, and other abuses of science

•ensure that scientific and technical information coming from the government is accurate


Finally[/I], Congress and the Trump administration should provide adequate resources to enable scientists to conduct research in the public interest and effectively and transparently carry out their agencies' missions. The consequences are real: without this investment, children will be more vulnerable to lead poisoning, more people will be exposed to unsafe drugs and medical devices, and we will be less prepared to limit the impacts of increasing extreme weather and rising seas.

These steps are necessary to create a thriving scientific enterprise that will strengthen our democracy and bring the full fruits of science to all Americans and the world. The scientific community is fully prepared to constructively engage with and closely monitor the actions of the Trump administration and Congress. We will continue to champion efforts that strengthen the role of science in policy making and stand ready to hold accountable any who might seek to undermine it.

For a deeper dive:

Scientific American, Buzzfeed, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC, Guardian

For more climate change and clean energy news, you can follow Climate Nexus on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for daily Hot News.


http://www.ecowatch.com/scientists-letter-trump-2121872351.html

Agelbert NOTE: The attitude of the Trailer Trash Trump Administration to the reality (that they refuse to admit publicly) of Catastrophic climate Change AND the muzzling of scientists who tell the truth about it (SEE BELOW):


 
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #439 on: December 02, 2016, 08:28:15 pm »

Carnival’s Princess Cruises to Pay Record $40 Million Over Illegal Dumping, Cover Up

December 1, 2016 by gCaptain

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Carnival Corporation’s Princess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from illegal oil dumping at sea and intentional acts to cover it up, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.

Princess will pay a $40 million penalty – the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution.


https://gcaptain.com/carnivals-princess-cruise-lines-to-pay-record-40-million-over-illegal-dumping/
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #440 on: December 05, 2016, 05:51:33 pm »
This Man Has Invented a Genius Way to Filter Tiny Bits of Plastic Out of the Ocean (VIDEO)   

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/man-invented-a-way-to-filter-microplastic-out-of-the-ocean/
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« Reply #441 on: December 05, 2016, 05:56:25 pm »

Meet the Future of Plastic: 100 Percent Biodegradable, Organic Bags You Can Eat!  :o  ;D


http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/envigreen-biodegradable-edible-plastic-bags/
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #442 on: December 07, 2016, 07:28:43 pm »
Animals| Dec. 07, 2016 12:55PM EST


10,000 Snow Geese Die
 After Landing on Toxic Mining Waters in Montana

Dan Zukowski
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As many as 10,000 snow geese landed on the remains of an open pit mine near Butte, Montana that was filled with toxic water. Now, they are being found sick and dead in places as unwild as a Walmart parking lot and a nearby casino.


http://www.ecowatch.com/snow-geese-die-montana-2133506920.html




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Re: Pollution
« Reply #443 on: December 08, 2016, 01:09:52 pm »
Scott Pruitt is anti immigration, antiObamacare and anti criminal justice reform—and he doesn't believe in the idea of human-made climate change.

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After weeks of speculation, the president-elect has decided who will head the EPA. His name is Scott Pruitt. As Oklahoma attorney general since 2010, Pruitt has been staunchly anti-EPA: He’s been involved in at least nine lawsuits with the federal agency, often challenging its power over state governments.

Like the majority of President-elect Donald Trump’s staff picks, Pruitt does not agree with the science behind climate change. In May, he wrote for the National Review that the global warming debate “is far from settled”—even though 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate change is real and that humans are behind it.

Now, as head of the EPA, Pruitt will have the power to enforce—or, rather, not—the federal regulations created by the agency that are meant to protect the health of the planet and its inhabitants. Policies like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act will be under his control. So will the agency's environmental justice program, which arguably already exhibits a lack of concern for environmental discrimination, according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Pruitt has also argued that the EPA oversteps its duties, so he will likely minimize the agency's involvement in state decisions, granting states the power to pollute and emit carbon as they desire. This aligns with Trump's plan to revive the coal industry, reduce regulation and ignore the climate catastrophe. Trump can't take these actions alone—he needs the support of the EPA, which he has now ensured.

http://www.colorlines.com/articles/3-things-people-color-need-know-about-trumps-epa-pick
 

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« Reply #444 on: December 08, 2016, 01:45:16 pm »
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Pascal Molineaux · Professor at Universidad Javeriana Cali

Trump is surrounding himself with corporate lobbyists, Wall Street insiders and billionaires. He has conned the American voter like nine before him.

He will push an agenda that is tailor made to please big business and Fossil Fuel interests. To ensure bigger profit margins for THEM, his cronies in the 1% uberrich class, he will work 24/24 and defunded the EPA, water down all meaningful environmental regulation, stiff hard working middle class as he weakens labor laws and make sure to give big tax cuts, incentives and breaks to these self same cronies.

Why?

Because these other concerns are if no concern to him. He is Money-grubber in chief and simply couldn't care less for anything else.

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All the above is, sadly, 100% accurate.
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #445 on: December 08, 2016, 01:58:08 pm »
Victory for New York Waters

Posted On December 8, 2016 by Guest Blogger

This piece was written by Mike Martinsen, Co-founder and Co-president of Montauk Shellfish Company Inc.


For forty years, I have worked as a bayman in New York’s rich waters. You could find me bullraking hard clams, sail dredging oysters, dredging bay scallops and potting lobster. I have earned a living from these waters my whole life. Declines—and the occasional full crash—in  shellfish stocks, however, have forced me to look at other occupations.

Once upon a time, billions upon billions of bivalve shellfish carpeted the bottoms of New York’s bays, harbors, rivers and sounds. But, through unlimited fossil fuel consumption, poor septic planning and a lack of regulation on pesticide and fertilizer purchase and application, we have created a void in the water. The population of bivalve shellfish has declined precipitously.

There is good news on the horizon for me, my fellow baymen and all of you who love our seafood. Last week, New York enacted legislation forming a task force which will identify any sources of acidification in New York waters, and recommend how to address them. Using best available science to fix this problem is written into the law, and this first step to protect the local ocean is a milestone victory in my eyes. This is how smart, comprehensive restoration of our historic oyster reefs, eelgrass beds and coastal ecosystems starts.

Since the beginning of Montauk Shellfish Company Inc., a company I co-founded in 2009, which farms our exclusive Montauk Pearl Oysters, I found that shellfish aquaculture is very important.  Bivalve shellfish in the New York estuaries are probably the most underappreciated living creatures. As filter feeders, they are responsible for maintaining balance with regard to water quality. The beauty of our operation is that each mature oyster will filter approximately 50 gallons of water per day. That means last year our farm filtered approximately 75,000,000 gallons of water each day! Also, the mature oysters had successful reproduction and the spat (tiny little babies) has landed at distant locales helping to promote the wild population growth.

As an aquaculturist, I can take pride in knowing that I am helping to rebuild the wild stock of shellfish in the marine environment. Without those filter feeders, water quality does not stand a chance. Nitrogen has become problematic and algal blooms have wreaked havoc on water quality.

There are things we can do to help mitigate the problems in our local waters. Awareness of how our consumption of fossil fuels and usage of household items can harm the estuary is key. Additionally, promoting shellfish aquaculture and protecting wild stocks will allow balance to be restored. A thriving shellfish stock allows the crucial roles of the natural filtration system, habitat source for juvenile fish and reef-like shoreline structure, to be enjoyed.  All are paramount to the wellness of the estuary.

Monitoring water quality and creating legislation that reduces nitrogen input into the waters will be very important. However there is a very large monster out there that is just beginning to rear its ugly head. Ocean acidification has decimated juvenile shellfish in other places in the world. We know that larval shellfish are strongly affected by ocean acidification and that they cannot form the necessary shell to survive in an acidic environment. Many wonder if this could be as big a factor as nitrogen induced algal blooms in the system collapses we’ve seen.

It’s imperative that we begin to understand the impacts of our current fossil fuel emissions on the ocean. It’s imperative that we take responsibility for the damages that we have caused. And it’s imperative that we begin to act more responsibly toward life as a whole and especially the ocean—the mother of all life, the mother we all share. If the world is your oyster, why not work toward pristine water quality?

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/12/08/victory-for-new-york-waters/#more-13452
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #446 on: December 09, 2016, 03:10:06 pm »
12/08/2016 01:14 PM

 
Trump Just Gave Us the Finger With EPA Pick

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Given Trump's series of worst-of-the-worst cabinet picks - antagonizing every group concerned about every issue - his choice to "lead" the EPA toward its abolishment comes as no surprise to us.

For Health and Human Services, he chose the person who wrote Obamacare repeal legislation; for Education, he chose the person who most hates public education; for Labor, he chose someone who hates unions and a living wage, so why wouldn't we expect the same for the environment?

And we still have two to go .. for Energy Secretary, we can expect a fossil fuel champion and for Interior, we can expect a fossil fuel champion and wildlife hater.

Republicans have been working for decades to reduce the size of the federal government so it can be "drowned in a bathtub" (Grover Norquist, 2001). Now, they finally have the power to get it done.

Meet Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General, and Trump's choice for EPA Administrator ... who hates the EPA!

What Makes the US Special? 

Trump echoed the GOP's hatred for regulations throughout his campaign, and now he gets to eliminate them, from Dodd-Frank - which protects us from another financial collapse - and any environmental rule that gets in the way of business growth.

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Here's what he and his fellow Republicans don't understand: laws that protect citizens, workers and the environment are at the core of what makes America an advanced country.

Our strong environmental laws are the envy of the world, not the other way around. Clean air and water benefits business and the economy, a finding of multitudes of studies.

Read our articles, Give EPA Some Credit: US Has Cleaner Air and EPA Ranked Most Effective of All Federal Agencies. 

Under Pruitt, our bedrock Clean Air and Clean Water Acts will likely be hollowed out, and when it's too much of a hassle to repeal them, he simply won't enforce them.   

Any action on climate change will happen in the states, and it WILL happen there. 

"As Oklahoma's Attorney General, Pruitt has repeatedly sued the EPA in an attempt to stop the agency from carrying out its work. Pruitt is supported by the very industries he would be responsible for overseeing, particularly fossil fuel producers. He has questioned the clear scientific evidence for climate change and resisted science-based rules that protect our air and water from pollution," says Union of Concerned Scientists.

Every single rule the EPA passes is the subject of endless lawsuits, and Pruitt is right in the center of that. Whether preventing rules that reduce soot, smog, mercury, arsenic and other toxic pollutants from power plants, he's your man. And, of course, he led the suit currently keeping EPA's Clean Power Plan tied up in court - which was filed months before the rules were made public! Just before filing that suit, Pruitt and other Republican state prosecutors held secret, paid meetings with the fossil fuel industry.

Read our article, EPA Crushed By Lawsuits, No Rule Loose Enough For Polluters.
 
"It's no secret that Trump wants to abolish environmental protections. Pruitt, who has fought the EPA on fracking standards on behalf of the fossil fuel industry and has consistently stood for deregulating agricultural pollution in the state, will lead this agenda," says Food & Water Watch.

He's behind Oklahoma's "Right-to-Farm" measure, which voters rejected in the election. This constitutional amendment, more accurately called "Right to Harm," would have prevented citizens and even legislators from making reforms on animal welfare and the quality of the state's land, air, and water.

Pruitt's position is: "EPA was never intended to be our Nation's frontline environmental regulator...the states were to have regulatory primacy. The EPA was to be a regulator of last resort."


If that were true, he would've taken action in Oklahoma, where fracking has conclusively caused over 20,000 earthquakes - but he has not.

Nothing like picking EPA's biggest enemy to head it ! More to come ...

 http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26700
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« Reply #447 on: December 11, 2016, 03:13:55 pm »

Trump’s Picks for EPA and Interior Threaten the Future of Clean Water

Sharon Lerner

December 9 2016, 4:39 p.m.

Environmentalists have been rightly focused on the fact that climate deniers Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, whom he is expected to nominate for the Department of the Interior, could devastate the Clean Power Plan, the Paris Accord and, through them, national and even global progress on climate change. But Trump’s picks could permanently damage the country’s waters, too. 

Both have a record of wide-ranging hostility toward the environment. As Attorney General of Oklahoma, Pruitt repeatedly (and often unsuccessfully) sued the EPA to stop the agency from doing its job. McMorris Rodgers, a conservative member of the House from Washington who has received almost a half-million dollars in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies, earned a zero rating from the League of Conservation Voters. Both have already made the dismantling of water protections a particular priority.

If appointed, these two foes of the earth will likely usher in dark days for our nation’s lakes, streams, and rivers. Our waterways are already in serious peril, according to an EPA evaluation of U.S. lakes released Friday. According to the report, 30 percent of lakes now contain the pesticide atrazine.

Water contamination will almost certainly increase if Pruitt declines to issue penalties to polluters and cuts the budgets of divisions responsible for enforcement, as his record and rhetoric has indicated he will.

“A lot of how much protection we get has to do with whether the agency chooses to buddy up to the industry or really hold them accountable for the violation of the laws,” said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper. Van Rossum is currently involved in fighting fracking and more than a dozen pipeline projects and fears the threats to the river basin will only increase.

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“Under a Pruitt EPA, we’re going to have a whole agency that’s about turning a blind eye, rather than holding industries accountable and protecting the people,” said van Rossum.

While it will take years to feel the full effects of some environmental disasters, the impact of not enforcing water laws will be felt more quickly. “The scary thing about water is there’s no wiggle room,” said Lisa Garcia, vice president of litigation for healthy communities at Earthjustice. “Once you discharge contamination into our drinking water, that’s an immediate impact. This could turn into real impacts to human health. It’s not something you want to play around with.”

Yet Pruitt and McMorris Rodgers already have. Both nominees have vocally opposed the Waters of the United States Rule, which would extend federal protection to thousands of lakes, rivers, and streams and allow the EPA to use the Clean Water Act to prosecute people who pollute them. Last year, Pruitt sued the EPA over the rule because it would harm the “property rights of the average American.”

Though a court is currently reviewing the rule, as EPA head Pruitt could decide not to defend it or even withdraw it. Other water protections in the works that he could snuff out include a tightening of the rules on lead and copper piping. If finalized, those rules could help prevent another Flint.

“We’re really concerned about lead and copper,” said David Goldston, director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council. “But really it’s everything.”

The fact that Trump has already surrounded himself with so many enemies of the environment makes the threat all the worse. “An entire constellation of anti-environmental people would clearly put in place policies that are counter to the public interest,” said Goldston.

Now environmental groups are turning their energies to fighting the appointments. Some have noted that only a few Republicans would need to break ranks to block Pruitt’s path in the Senate. And the opposition to McMorris Rodgers has already begun. Just hours after Trump’s choice was reported, Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch, called on any senator “with a concern for future generations of Americans” to oppose her: “Rep. McMorris Rodgers poses a clear and present danger to our treasured public lands.”

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/donald-trumps-picks-for-epa-and-interior-could-doom-u-s-water/

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« Reply #448 on: December 12, 2016, 06:23:08 pm »


December 12, 2016

Climate Change is Ravaging Coral Reefs Throughout the World's Oceans

Constructing new coal mines is the wrong response to the historic devastation of this key part of the ocean ecosystem, says Dr. Selina Ward.


http://therealnews.com/t2/story:17879:Climate-Change-is-Ravaging-Coral-Reefs-Throughout-the-World%27s-Oceans
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« Reply #449 on: December 16, 2016, 03:14:25 pm »
Cities, Cars and Other Human-Made Things Weigh 30 Trillion Metric Tons

Posted on Dec 14, 2016

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/cities_cars_and_other_human-made_things_weigh_30_trillion_20161214


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This is like so DUMB beyond belief.

All of that was already in the Crust of the planet, nothing has been added that wasn't already there. And all of these "Scientists" are getting money from the Government to Spend and Waste in theses DUMB studies.

agelbert > Salero21

Exactly. And as far as measuring the impact of this or that, biomass of a given species is far more important than the weight of our stuff. For example, the biomass of the entire human species is far less than the biomass of ants. The same is true for termites, that output far more methane than cows!

The issue is, and always will be, what part of humanity is threatening the viability of the biosphere (i.e. the empathy deficit disordered oligarchs).

But, they own the media, so the truth, except in very limited forums mostly ignored by the public, is always avoided.

But the truth is as follows:



BarryLong  • 2 days ago 

What I wanna know is: How much mass/weight does the all bullshit from all the oligarch$ and their $pin doctors add up to?
Cause we're suffocating on it.




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