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Switzerland schedules auction for 2021 carbon allowances
Brussels aims to frontload EUA auctions to double Innovation Fund call -leaked draft
Offset retailer ditches policy of no mark up for buying VCM credits
Maine bans use of sewage sludge on farms to reduce risk of PFAS poisoning
Sludge used as crop fertilizer has contaminated soil, water, crops and cattle, forcing farmers to quit
Maine last month became the first state to ban the practice of spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge as fertilizer.
But it’s largely on its own in the US, despite a recent report estimating about 20m acres of cropland across the country may be contaminated.
Continue reading...Electricity pathways help Oregon Clean Fuels Program notch small surplus in Q4
Trump officials and meat industry blocked life-saving Covid controls, investigation finds
Congressional investigation reveals the lengths meat industry went to downplay risks to workers and lobby receptive Trump officials
Trump officials “collaborated” with the meatpacking industry to downplay the threat of Covid to plant workers and block public health measures which could have saved lives, a damning new investigation has found.
Internal documents reviewed by the congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis reveal how industry representatives lobbied government officials to stifle “pesky” health departments from imposing evidence-based safety measures to curtail the virus spreading – and tried to obscure worker deaths from these authorities.
Continue reading...Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief
Fatih Birol says ‘carbon bombs’, revealed in Guardian investigation, will not solve global energy crisis
The world’s leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), was responding to an investigation in the Guardian that revealed fossil fuel companies were planning huge “carbon bomb” projects that would drive climate catastrophe.
Continue reading...LSE proposes tight parameters for carbon funds in its VCM listing plans
Japan’s SMBC joins bankers’ carbon offset platform
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Biologists buoyed by discovery of 4-metre endangered stingray in Cambodia
Huge creature found in Mekong River where planned dams threaten ‘devastating’ ecological damage
A team of marine biologists have welcomed the discovery of a huge endangered freshwater stingray during a recent expedition to a remote stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia, though they warned the biodiversity of the area was under threat.
The stingray was accidentally caught by fishers in an 80-metre (260ft) deep pool in the Mekong in Cambodia’s north-eastern Stung Treng province. The visiting scientists helped return the animal alive.
Continue reading...Here’s another reason to donate blood: it reduces ‘forever chemicals’ in your body | Adrienne Matei
While the $4tn global wellness industry bends over backwards to sell us dubious detox products, there is an accessible, easy, and free way to genuinely rid our bloodstreams of toxins
Among all the toxins in the Pandora’s Box of chemical pollutants that humans have released upon the world, PFAS are particularly disturbing.
PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are nicknamed “forever chemicals” for their ubiquity, persistence and toxicity. They are used in household items including non-stick pans, waterproof fabrics, and microwave popcorn bags, and can contaminate water, air, soil, crops and animal products. They accumulate in the blood, bones and tissues of living things and do not degrade. PFAS impair human immune systems, making us more susceptible to diseases – even those we’ve been vaccinated against. Researchers associate the chemicals with liver disease, obesity, thyroid disorders, and certain cancers, among other health problems. These observations generally pertain to the relatively few PFAS we have researched, including PFOA and PFOS; PFAS belong to a massive family of chemicals, thousands of them unstudied and potentially harmful.
Adrienne Matei is a freelance journalist
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Ohio woman pleads guilty to selling invasive crayfish species across 36 states
The case is believed to be the first enforcement action of its kind aimed at preventing the advance of the marbled crayfish
They have claws, 10 legs, can produce hundreds of clones of themselves and have escaped from confinement to potentially run amok across the United States. The ecological threat posed by the marbled crayfish has now prompted prosecutors to wield invasive species laws in an attempt to curb the spread of the peripatetic crustaceans.
An Ohio woman who sold hundreds of marbled crayfish online has pleaded guilty to offenses under the Lacey Act, a US law preventing the transport of certain wildlife across state lines, after raising the crayfish in a huge tank in her home and selling them to people across 36 different states.
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