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Biden Administration Denies Cheniere’s Request to Sidestep LNG Pollution Rule
September 10th, 2022 
Awake Goy WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday it has denied a request from leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Cheniere Energy Inc. to exempt turbines at its two U.S. Gulf Coast terminals from a hazardous pollution rule. The rejection raises questions about whether the Texas-based company will have to reduce exports of the supercooled […]
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No Comments »Pollution erodes fish stocks and livelihoods in Egyptian lake
September 2nd, 2022 Awake Goy Set between irrigated farmland and rocky desert south-west of Cairo, once pristine Qarun Lake used to teem with tilapia, bass, bream and shrimp, offering generous catches to fishermen from surrounding villages, Reuters reports. But pollution from agricultural runoff and industrial and domestic waste has, in recent years, sullied its beauty and sent those stocks plunging, […]
Over 21,000 Iranians die of air pollution in year
September 1st, 2022 Awake Goy TEHRAN – During the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2021-March 2022), more than 21,000 people died in 27 cities of the country due to air pollution, Darioush Gol Alizadeh, head of the national center for weather and climate change affiliated with the Department of Environment, has said. According to the report of the Ministry of […]
Atlantic plankton pretty much GONE due to chemical pollution, researchers find
July 21st, 2022 Awake Goy Food chain COLLAPSE: Atlantic plankton pretty much GONE due to chemical pollution, researchers find Wednesday, July 20, 2022 by: Ethan Huff This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author (Natural News) Researchers out of Scotland claim that Atlantic Ocean plankton, microscopic organisms that sustain ocean life, are basically now extinct due […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Atlantic, chemical, plankton, pollution, pretty, researchers No Comments »The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution – and sent a warning to other regulators
July 5th, 2022 Awake Goy The U.S. has entered a new era of administrative law, with an activist court asserting its power to curtail what it perceives as the excesses of regulatory agencies – and not always waiting for those agencies to complete their work. Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: carbon, court, curtailed, pollution, power, regulate, supreme No Comments »DuPont concealed decades-long chemical pollution linked to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, and ulcerative colitis
June 13th, 2022 Awake Goy uPont understood that PFOA caused cancerous testicular, pancreatic and liver tumors in lab animals. One laboratory study suggested possible DNA damage from PFOA exposure, and a study of workers linked exposure with prostate cancer. DuPont at last hastened to develop an alternative to PFOA. An interoffice memo sent in 1993 announced that ‘‘for the first […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: chemical, concealed, decades, DuPont, kidney, linked, pollution No Comments »Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
March 18th, 2022 Awake Goy Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’ Air pollution in China is three times above World Health Organisation limits. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: causes, INTELLIGENCE, pollution, reduction, reveals, study No Comments »How nitrate water pollution is posing a threat to people and ecosystems in Spain
February 26th, 2022 Awake Goy How clean is Europe’s water? It’s estimated around half of Europe’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters contain dangerous substances. In Spain, the pollution from pig farms poses a threat to both people and local ecosystems. Zamora: home to contaminated water Zamora in Spain is just one of several provinces where the tap water is contaminated. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ecosystems, nitrate, people, pollution, posing, threat, water No Comments »These 4 items are the biggest pollution offenders in the ocean
December 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Environmentalists identify the modern age as the Anthropocene. They believe Earth is shifting into the sixth extinction, signifying humanity’s contribution to biodiversity loss. This is because the planet is being harmed by atmospheric and surface-level pollution. Researchers are focusing on marine waste as an emission-reduction solution. A significant quantity of trash and recycling ends up […]
Solidarity Action Rebukes Navy Over Toxic Water Pollution
December 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: One of the messages displayed onto the USS Balao Conning Tower outside of the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington D.C. on December 12, 2021. CodePink. ‘Shut Down Red Hill.’ “Any amount of petroleum in our water is too much. 350 times the ‘safe limit’ is absolutely intolerable.” Activists with CodePink, in solidarity with Hawaii-based […]
US needs to make reducing marine plastic pollution a priority
December 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy A recent report was just released entitled Reckoning With the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste, which says an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the worlds ocean each year — the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck or plastic waste into the ocean every minute. A quarter of this waste […]
6 PRACTICAL ways to reduce your exposure to EMF pollution
November 17th, 2021 Awake Goy (NaturalHealth365) Is your home environment making you sick? Cordless phones, computers, printers, fax machines, plus many other electrical devices may very well be slowly killing you. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, about 99 percent of U.S. households own a television, with the average home having three TVs and about 24 consumer electronic devices overall. […]
Biden’s Farm Methane Plan Could Worsen Consolidation And Pollution
November 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Methane biodigester on a dairy farm. iStock. Reducing methane emissions took center stage at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow ending Friday. More than 100 countries pledged to reduce their methane emissions by 30% over the next decade. Methane is a significantly more potent yet shorter-lived greenhouse gas, making it a […]
China ‘Pledges’ to Increase Pollution for Another Decade
October 30th, 2021 Awake Goy Communist China’s contribution to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was an emissions “pledge” that proposed increasing China’s pollution output over the next few years. Chinese dictator Xi Jinping still claims his country will somehow reverse these trends in a very short period of time and become “carbon neutral” before 2060. The South China […]
Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030, poses dire threat to biodiversity
October 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: Newburgh Gazette In a new comprehensive assessment, the United Nations warns that plastic pollution in waterways is likely to more than double by 2030 unless “a drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable, and problematic plastic” is made on a global level. The study, From Pollution to Solution: A Global Assessment of Marine Litter and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: double, likely, plastic, pollution, poses, threat, waterways No Comments »Directors Of World’s Top Insurance Companies Tied To Pollution
October 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: More than half of all directors sitting on the board of 30 major insurance companies analysed were linked to polluting industries. DeSmog. Analysis found links to Exxon, Koch Industries, and the US Chamber of Commerce, raising concerns about a potential “revolving door,” one campaigner said, between the insurance and fossil fuel industries. Just […]
Why River Pollution and Depletion Remains A Serious Threat In India
September 27th, 2021 Awake Goy In recent decades India has heard a lot about such appealing, consoling programs like the Ganga Action Plan, the Yamuna Action Plan, the National River Conservation Plan and finally Namami Gange. So it is all the more disturbing to know from recent reports and other indicators that the problem of river pollution remains serious, endangering […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: depletion, India, pollution, remains, river, serious, threat No Comments »EU air pollution limits way out of step with new WHO guidelines
September 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy The World Health Organization (WHO) has tightened its guidelines for recommended air pollution limits, after it found evidence of damage to human health at lower levels than previously thought. This leaves the EU legal limit for air pollution way out of step with the WHO’s recommendations, with the bloc allowing certain types of pollution to […]
Coca-Cola biggest offender of all branded pollution on UK beaches, new report confirms
August 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: George Frey/Bloomberg In an annual Brand Audit that reveals the volume of plastic and packaging pollution, Surfers Against Sewage confirmed Coca-Cola was the brand that showed up on UK beaches the most. The audit was conducted from May 11-23 across 350,000 miles of beach with more than 50,000 volunteers who collected 26,983 pieces […]
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July 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy “In 1949, in the city of Montreal, Canada, Peter Green created the first ever blister sealing machine for retail packaging. Peter, the inventor of the rotary blister-pack seal unit, was the pioneer and originator of the blister packaging machine. Through countless hours, hard work, and experimentation, he finally perfected the chemical relationship between board, and […]
Stop Exxon’s Climate Change Misinformation Campaign-See Plastic Pollution Direct Result of Oil Industry Non Regulation
July 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Posted by Tiffany White Target: Joe Manchin, Chairman of Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Goal: Investigate fossil fuel companies for misleading public and for active attempts to sabotage climate-related efforts.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-2598521971411695&output=html&h=280&adk=894098213&adf=1557869051&pi=t.aa~a.901905492~i.6~rp.4&w=610&fwrn=4&fwrnh=100&lmt=1626537537&num_ads=1&rafmt=1&armr=3&sem=mc&pwprc=5108040983&psa=1&ad_type=text_image&format=610×280&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforcechange.com%2F589848%2Fstop-exxons-climate-change-misinformation-campaign%2F&flash=0&fwr=0&pra=3&rh=153&rw=610&rpe=1&resp_fmts=3&wgl=1&fa=27&uach=WyJXaW5kb3dzIiwiMTAuMCIsIng4NiIsIiIsIjkxLjAuODY0LjY3IixbXSxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbF0.&dt=1626537537586&bpp=1&bdt=1917&idt=-M&shv=r20210712&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D96e7e8f8e68869c4-22b3a51b64ba005c%3AT%3D1626283331%3ART%3D1626283331%3AS%3DALNI_Ma8_S5uVq5-fMoJ7k4lZdNqo4SIaw&prev_fmts=0x0%2C970x250&nras=2&correlator=3216111188198&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2125220887.1626283332&ga_sid=1626537537&ga_hid=1910087314&ga_fc=0&u_tz=-420&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=768&u_w=1366&u_ah=728&u_aw=1366&u_cd=24&u_nplug=3&u_nmime=4&adx=205&ady=1038&biw=1349&bih=657&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=31060047%2C44740386%2C44743203%2C31061683&oid=3&pvsid=3434792742260520&pem=565&wsm=1&eae=0&fc=1408&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1366%2C0%2C1366%2C728%2C1366%2C657&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7Cs%7C&abl=NS&fu=128&bc=31&ifi=4&uci=a!4&btvi=1&fsb=1&xpc=RRFxqWkwOq&p=https%3A//forcechange.com&dtd=17 An estimated one billion marine lives boiled to death in the Pacific Northwest heat waves. One town very nearly reached the hottest temperature ever […]
Posted in News Tags: campaign, change, climate, Exxon, misinformation, plastic, pollution No Comments »Dead Bees, Sick Residents From Pesticide Pollution In Nebraska
June 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: NDEE. The AltEn plant in the village of Mead has made ethanol from corn coated with pesticides for years. The results have been a disaster for residents and nearby farms. “I have been coughing since 2018. It does not go away,” says Jody Weible over the phone from her home in Mead, Nebraska. […]
The murky issue of air pollution in North Macedonia
June 1st, 2021 Awake Goy In winter, Skopje, the Capital of North Macedonia, is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. According to estimates from the World Bank Study, over 1000 people die each year as a result of air pollution in North Macedonia and its population is only 2 million. The South Eastern Europe Health Network is a […]
Scientist Says Plastic Pollution is Shrinking Penises, Will Make Most Men Infertile by 2045
March 24th, 2021 Awake Goy An environmental scientist has warned that plastic pollution is shrinking penises and making men infertile, meaning most of them won’t be able to produce sperm by 2045. In a new book called Count Down, Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an “existential crisis” due to phthalates, a chemical used in the plastic manufacturing […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: infertile, penises, plastic, pollution, scientist, shrinking No Comments »Coal Pollution Puts The Lives Of Villagers Into Misery And Land Them In Jail For Protesting It
March 21st, 2021 Awake Goy On 19th March I along with Ananta , social activist, Advocate Pradosh Mohanty and Adv. Gaiendra Pradhan visited the villages like Kandadhuda, Beleimunda and Ratanpur in Hemagiri Block of Sundargarh District severally affected by acute pollution by MCL coal transport since 2012. We met with villagers including women who were ill treated, beaten by the […]
Paving roads in plastic can help with pollution problem
March 13th, 2021 Awake Goy So far, 12 countries have built roads out of plastic instead of asphalt, helping both the global plastic pollution problem and climate change. First appearing in India two decades ago, plastic roads are being tested and built in more and more countries as the world’s plastic pollution problem becomes more acutely felt. India has installed […]
Sahara dust and traffic lead to air pollution alerts in France
March 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Parts of France are experiencing high levels of air pollution, blamed on wood burning, traffic, and dust from the Sahara Desert that has been blown across to the country on a storm. The Ile-de-France region – which contains the capital Paris – has implemented differentiated traffic, and reduced maximum speeds on roads to reduce pollution. […]
Oil spill off Israel’s coast is its worst maritime pollution in decades
February 20th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
Shell Oil defeated by Nigerian villagers in oil pollution case
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy After a 13-year legal battle, a small group of Nigerian farmers won their pollution case against Shell Oil. These four farmers, along with Friends of the Earth Netherlands, took Shell to court after the oil giant contaminated their lands with years of oil spills. #Shell has today been defeated in court by Nigerian farmers. This […]
