But that coal-fired plant is one of the dirtiest in Texas. It’s the fourth-largest mercury polluter in the state, producing around 12 times as much mercury as is allowed bya new EPA rule. It also has two coal ash ponds on site which leech into the local water table and create some...
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Another pollution problem low on the public radar results from environmental modification techniques involving geoengineering particulates being secretly dumped into the atmosphere by the US military for more than half a century, based on research beginning in the 1940s. This geoengineering has been used...
Pulp and paper is USA's third largest polluter 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 14 作者: Anon 摘要: America's environmental protection agency has identified the pulp and paper industry as the country's third largest producer of toxic pollution. The news coincides with recently released ...
Freshwater plastic pollution is critically understudied in Southeast Asia (SEA). Recent modelling studies indicate that SEA rivers contribute vast quantities of plastic to the world’s oceans, however, these fail to capture the complexity of individual systems. We determine the volume of mismanaged pl...
Australia's biggest carbon polluter announced Thursday it will exit coal-fired power a decade early, asrenewableprojects surge in a country long seen as a climate laggard. AGL said it would shutter one of Australia's biggest carbon emitters, the Loy Yang A Power Station in Victoria's Latrobe...
The demand for compensation for loss and damage from climate disasters is an extension of the universally acknowledged “Polluter Pays” principle that makes the polluter liable for paying not just for the cost of remedial action, but also for compensating the victims of environmental damage caused ...
china outpaces america in the number of people executed every year, but the u.s. is far ahead when it comes to the proportion of the population in prison (more than 700 per 100,000 people). china overtook the u.s. in 2007 as the world’s largest polluter, by total volume, though ...
Australia's biggest carbon polluter announced Thursday it will exit coal-fired power a decade early, as renewable projects surge in a country long seen as a climate laggard.
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