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Plastics plants dump 1,4-dioxane and other pollutants with no EPA limits

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In South Carolina, a plastics manufacturing plant called Alpek Polyester Columbia dumped about 30,000 pounds of a chemical, 1,4-dioxane, into the Congaree River last year, with no limits on the pollutant – a likely carcinogen – in the plant’s discharge permit. The Alpek plant was the largest...

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22h ago

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EPA’s failure to regulate laughing gas is deadly serious for the climate

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Nitrous oxide is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas. When released into the air, it is 273 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere. On July 23, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new voluntary actions by industry to reduce emissions of climate-warming...

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on Sep 6

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In Illinois, a massive taxpayer-funded carbon capture project fails to capture about 90 percent of plant’s emissions

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The project, run by ethanol producer Archer Daniels Midland and partners, received $281 million in taxpayer dollars via Department of Energy grants. It has stored more than 2.8 million metric tons of CO2 since 2011. However, EPA records show that represents a capture rate of only about 10-12...

on Apr 27