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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, July 16th, 2023
WEEKLY EDITION �#425
This blog is a weekly feature of � North Carolina Blue . This weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina ...
by randallt
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on Sun Jul 16, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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*Breaking News* Consumer Reports: Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate Consumer Reports found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from Hershey's, Theo, Trader Joe's and other popular brands. Here are the ones that had the most, and some...
by Angmar
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 04:12 PM PST
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The Navy’s Red Hill facility is facing yet another contamination issue just one year after a fuel spill prompted the shuttering of multiple drinking water sources indefinitely that many communities in Honolulu and those living on Joint Base Pearl...
by April Siese
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on Wed Nov 30, 2022 at 02:58 PM PST
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Officials and the Honolulu community gathered for the first time on Wednesday since the Hawaii Health Department conditionally agreed to the Defense Department’s unpacking plan for the Red Hill fuel tanks, which leaked and contaminated a local water...
by April Siese
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 04:16 PM PST
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The proposed reuse of an oil and gas production byproduct is facing opposition from environmental advocates who caution that there is simply no way to properly decontaminate it. The byproduct known as produced water is generated during the extraction...
by April Siese
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 03:46 PM PDT
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The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) on Friday conditionally approved the first phase proposed by the Navy in its plan to defuel the Red Hill fuel tanks that sit just 100 feet above a major aquifer at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The first phase...
by April Siese
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on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 02:20 PM PDT
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A crucial river that provides drinking water and recreation for many Michiganders has once again been polluted by the manufacturing company Tribar. On Monday, the company notified the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy about...
by April Siese
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 09:57 AM PDT
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For the Second Time, Kern County’s Fast-Track Permitting Ordinance Fails Under Scrutiny Kern County, CA – The Kern County Superior Court issued a significant ruling that declared Kern County’s environmental review of its 2021 oil and gas ordinance...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Jun 09, 2022 at 12:12 PM PDT
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry released a study on Friday detailing the toll the Red Hill water crisis has taken on Honolulu residents, many of whom experienced health...
by April Siese
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on Fri May 27, 2022 at 01:28 PM PDT
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A report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit dedicated to studying pollutants in agriculture and drinking water and advocating for corporate accountability, last month found that as many as 20 million acres of U.S. croplands may be...
by April Siese
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on Mon May 09, 2022 at 11:45 AM PDT
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�The contamination crisis in Honolulu , in which drinking water from�the Red Hill well was found to contain petroleum, has only escalated since the Navy slowed pumping at the well last week. The Red ...
by April Siese
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on Fri Dec 10, 2021 at 06:36 AM PST
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Some chocolates are contaminated with cadmium or lead. Depending on the details, the amounts may be too low to matter or so high they pose a significant toxic burden. Fortunately there is an organization that has measured this contamination and...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Feb 27, 2022 at 04:00 PM PST
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pubsonline.informs.org/… This February 18 article suggests that, like SARS-CoV1, SARS-CoV2 can just be as easily spread via fecal routes. While a sneeze or a cough by someone infected with a “respiratory disease” can only infect others within a few...
by liberalismiscommonsense
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on Sun Mar 29, 2020 at 06:37 AM PDT
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“The Whites cannot destroy our house for, if they do, things will not end well for the whole world. We are looking after the forest for everyone, not just for the Yanomami and the isolated peoples. We work with our shamans who understand these things...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Mar 26, 2020 at 02:21 AM PDT
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The first comprehensive national study of coal ash dump sites by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has been released. In it researchers found that “242 of the 265 power plants with monitoring data contained unsafe levels of one or more of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Mar 04, 2019 at 08:44 AM PST
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This month’s Regular KosAbility meeting is on Sunday, 28 October at 4pm Pacific time.
For each quarter of the year, one of the four KosAbility admins (Bésame, CathyM, Steven Park, wilderness ...
by wilderness voice
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on Sun Oct 14, 2018 at 04:00 PM PDT
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The head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, is paranoid. Actually, he’s not paranoid at all. He knows people are out to get him and he’s right—we are out to get him. The reason he knows people are out to get him is because he’s a corrupt and narcissistic zealot...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue May 22, 2018 at 08:30 AM PDT
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The purpose of this post is to bring the community up to date on monitoring efforts aimed at understanding the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental and public health. This post is part of an ongoing...
by MarineChemist
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on Thu Mar 08, 2018 at 08:42 PM PST
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By BJ McManama, Indigenous Environmental Network with Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, Global Justice Ecology Project
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” We don’t even have to provide the score for you to hear...
by Anne Petermann
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 08:26 AM PST
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The purpose of this post is to summarize a recently published, peer reviewed, scientific study that investigated levels of Fukushima derived contamination in fish caught in the North Pacific and sold at market in Hawai’i. This post is part of an...
by MarineChemist
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on Tue May 16, 2017 at 02:55 PM PDT
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