#benzene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #benzene, aggregated by home.social.
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A retrospective study of over 800,00 children born between 2007 and 2020, and followed until age 15, found that the incidence of childhood leukemia was associated, in a dose-responsive manner, with the proximity of gas stations to their birth location.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-gas-station-childhood-cancer.html
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749126001077
#Science #Gasoline #Benzene #Cancer #Leukemia #Pollution #GasStations #ChildhoodCancer
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#Maine - New testing identifies elevated #benzene emissions near #SouthPortland tank farms
“You might have been able to do this in the past, but we’re not going to let you do this in the future.”
by Norah Hogan, 4/14/2026
Excerpt: "Long-term exposure to benzene has been linked to dizziness, headaches, blood disorders and cancer.
"Reiner, who has lived near three of the sites for years, was diagnosed with bladder cancer last Thanksgiving. He underwent surgery in December and is now receiving treatment.
" 'The big question is, was it this exposure? You can’t say. But this exposure may have contributed,' he said. 'The more toxins and environmental hazards you encounter in your life, it all adds up. It’s the cumulative effect.'
"Concerns about emissions have persisted for years. Previously, oil companies were allowed to self-monitor their emissions and were subject to stricter regulations only if they reported elevated toxin levels.
"In 2019, #GlobalCompanies LLC entered into a legal settlement that required the installation of new technology to reduce emissions. The company’s benzene levels are now well below state thresholds.
" 'They don’t want to be forced to do something that would be the right thing for everybody,' Reiner said. 'Everybody in America could benefit if oil companies started cleaning their emissions before they leave the tank farms and facilities.' "
Read more:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/elevated-benzene-near-south-portland-tank-farms/71016200#MainePol #MaineNews #BenzeneEmissions #AirIsLife #BigOilAndGas #AirPollution #Carcinogenic
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In 1929, Kathleen Lonsdale solved the mystery of the molecular structure of #benzene, which had been elusive for over a century. She used #Fourier methods on her X-ray crystallography data.
Benzene had been isolated in 1825, in a tiny vial that would change the world. 👇
https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/tiny-vial-changed-world-benzene-200
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The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸, is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal @TIB_AVPortal of the @tibhannover.
🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/72485
#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks -
Il 40% dei fornelli a gas europei perde benzene anche da spento, e il nostro naso non se ne accorge. Un nuovo studio su 72 case tra UK, Italia e Paesi Bassi rivela concentrazioni fino a 66 volte superiori a quelle americane. Il paragone dei ricercatori? Come vivere con un fumatore.
Lasciate perdere i confronti con i piani a induzione: qui si tratta di capire se possiamo permetterci di non sapere cosa respiriamo a casa nostra.
https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/03/fornelli-a-gas-il-veleno-lento-che-non-puoi-annusare
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Why is #BlackRain Falling on #Tehran and What Does It Mean for Health?
Written by Nadine
Medically Reviewed by Colleen Fleiss, M.Sc on Mar 23 2026 3:39 PMExcerpt: "Toxic Emissions From Damaged #Oil Facilities
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier, stated on 17 March that the destruction of #Iran's oil infrastructure released hazardous #hydrocarbons, #SulfurOxides, and #NitrogenCompounds into the atmosphere.
When rain combines with these #pollutants, it can lead to #ChemicalBurns and #LungInjury. He emphasized the seriousness of the situation and noted that authorities in Iran have urged residents to remain indoors.
"#BlackRain refers broadly to rainfall contaminated with atmospheric pollutants, explains Farzana Kastury, an environmental scientist at Adelaide University in Australia. Such rain often results from bushfire smoke or the burning of heavy fuels, which are by-products of crude #OilRefining.
In Iran's case, the black rain likely contains pollutants generated from the combustion of these fuels during fires triggered by missile attacks, including substances such as #acetone, #toluene, and #carcinogenic compounds like #benzene and #methylenechloride ."
#NoWar #WarIsToxic #USWarOnIran #WorldWar3 #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #WorldPol #ToxicRain #ToxicRainInTehran
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Why is #BlackRain Falling on #Tehran and What Does It Mean for Health?
Written by Nadine
Medically Reviewed by Colleen Fleiss, M.Sc on Mar 23 2026 3:39 PMExcerpt: "Toxic Emissions From Damaged #Oil Facilities
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier, stated on 17 March that the destruction of #Iran's oil infrastructure released hazardous #hydrocarbons, #SulfurOxides, and #NitrogenCompounds into the atmosphere.
When rain combines with these #pollutants, it can lead to #ChemicalBurns and #LungInjury. He emphasized the seriousness of the situation and noted that authorities in Iran have urged residents to remain indoors.
"#BlackRain refers broadly to rainfall contaminated with atmospheric pollutants, explains Farzana Kastury, an environmental scientist at Adelaide University in Australia. Such rain often results from bushfire smoke or the burning of heavy fuels, which are by-products of crude #OilRefining.
In Iran's case, the black rain likely contains pollutants generated from the combustion of these fuels during fires triggered by missile attacks, including substances such as #acetone, #toluene, and #carcinogenic compounds like #benzene and #methylenechloride ."
#NoWar #WarIsToxic #USWarOnIran #WorldWar3 #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #WorldPol #ToxicRain #ToxicRainInTehran
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Why is #BlackRain Falling on #Tehran and What Does It Mean for Health?
Written by Nadine
Medically Reviewed by Colleen Fleiss, M.Sc on Mar 23 2026 3:39 PMExcerpt: "Toxic Emissions From Damaged #Oil Facilities
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier, stated on 17 March that the destruction of #Iran's oil infrastructure released hazardous #hydrocarbons, #SulfurOxides, and #NitrogenCompounds into the atmosphere.
When rain combines with these #pollutants, it can lead to #ChemicalBurns and #LungInjury. He emphasized the seriousness of the situation and noted that authorities in Iran have urged residents to remain indoors.
"#BlackRain refers broadly to rainfall contaminated with atmospheric pollutants, explains Farzana Kastury, an environmental scientist at Adelaide University in Australia. Such rain often results from bushfire smoke or the burning of heavy fuels, which are by-products of crude #OilRefining.
In Iran's case, the black rain likely contains pollutants generated from the combustion of these fuels during fires triggered by missile attacks, including substances such as #acetone, #toluene, and #carcinogenic compounds like #benzene and #methylenechloride ."
#NoWar #WarIsToxic #USWarOnIran #WorldWar3 #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #WorldPol #ToxicRain #ToxicRainInTehran
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Why is #BlackRain Falling on #Tehran and What Does It Mean for Health?
Written by Nadine
Medically Reviewed by Colleen Fleiss, M.Sc on Mar 23 2026 3:39 PMExcerpt: "Toxic Emissions From Damaged #Oil Facilities
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier, stated on 17 March that the destruction of #Iran's oil infrastructure released hazardous #hydrocarbons, #SulfurOxides, and #NitrogenCompounds into the atmosphere.
When rain combines with these #pollutants, it can lead to #ChemicalBurns and #LungInjury. He emphasized the seriousness of the situation and noted that authorities in Iran have urged residents to remain indoors.
"#BlackRain refers broadly to rainfall contaminated with atmospheric pollutants, explains Farzana Kastury, an environmental scientist at Adelaide University in Australia. Such rain often results from bushfire smoke or the burning of heavy fuels, which are by-products of crude #OilRefining.
In Iran's case, the black rain likely contains pollutants generated from the combustion of these fuels during fires triggered by missile attacks, including substances such as #acetone, #toluene, and #carcinogenic compounds like #benzene and #methylenechloride ."
#NoWar #WarIsToxic #USWarOnIran #WorldWar3 #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #WorldPol #ToxicRain #ToxicRainInTehran
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Why is #BlackRain Falling on #Tehran and What Does It Mean for Health?
Written by Nadine
Medically Reviewed by Colleen Fleiss, M.Sc on Mar 23 2026 3:39 PMExcerpt: "Toxic Emissions From Damaged #Oil Facilities
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Christian Lindmeier, stated on 17 March that the destruction of #Iran's oil infrastructure released hazardous #hydrocarbons, #SulfurOxides, and #NitrogenCompounds into the atmosphere.
When rain combines with these #pollutants, it can lead to #ChemicalBurns and #LungInjury. He emphasized the seriousness of the situation and noted that authorities in Iran have urged residents to remain indoors.
"#BlackRain refers broadly to rainfall contaminated with atmospheric pollutants, explains Farzana Kastury, an environmental scientist at Adelaide University in Australia. Such rain often results from bushfire smoke or the burning of heavy fuels, which are by-products of crude #OilRefining.
In Iran's case, the black rain likely contains pollutants generated from the combustion of these fuels during fires triggered by missile attacks, including substances such as #acetone, #toluene, and #carcinogenic compounds like #benzene and #methylenechloride ."
#NoWar #WarIsToxic #USWarOnIran #WorldWar3 #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #WorldPol #ToxicRain #ToxicRainInTehran
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If you need to seek refuge from smoke, then your municipal water supply is PROBABLY cancerous.
Because physics. Your city water supply has been contaminated, and systemic cleaning is necessary.
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If you need to seek refuge from smoke, then your municipal water supply is PROBABLY cancerous.
Because physics. Your city water supply has been contaminated, and systemic cleaning is necessary.
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If you need to seek refuge from smoke, then your municipal water supply is PROBABLY cancerous.
Because physics. Your city water supply has been contaminated, and systemic cleaning is necessary.
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If you need to seek refuge from smoke, then your municipal water supply is PROBABLY cancerous.
Because physics. Your city water supply has been contaminated, and systemic cleaning is necessary.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/332160/ From oil by-product to aromatic icon #AromaticChemistry #Benzene #crystallogrpahy #Éire #history #IE #Ireland #KathleenLonsdale #MichaelFaraday #OrganicSynthesis #People #Science #SyntheticChemistry
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/327019/ Webb Detects Unexpected Richness of Hydrocarbons in Obscured Core of Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy #Acetylene #Benzene #BlackHole #Carbon #CSA #Diacetylene #dust #Éire #esa #Galaxy #hydrocarbon #IE #IR #IRAS072510248 #Ireland #methane #MethylRadical #nasa #PAH #Science #SupermassiveBlackHole #Triacetylene #ULIRG #UltraluminousInfraredGalaxy #Webb
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There's still time to register for TOMORROW's FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸.
📅 Feb 5, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET
✍ https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/organic-chemistry-the-interplay-between-aromaticity-and-reactivity/?M=y#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks
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Check out the briefing's 4 case studies:
🏭 Industry withholding knowledge - #PFAS
🏭 Industry undermining independent science - #BisphenolA
🏭 Industry establishing front groups - #Benzene
🏭 Industry combining disinformation strategies - #Pesticideshttps://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
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3 Check out the briefing's 4 case studies: 🏭 Industry withholding knowledge - #PFAS 🏭 Industry undermining independent science - #BisphenolA 🏭 Industry establishing front groups - #Benzene 🏭 Industry combining disinformation strategies - #Pesticides corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
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Coming up next week: Online #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸.
Join this FREE online talk and find out how one of chemistry’s oldest concepts can solve modern challenges.
📅 Feb 5, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET
✍ https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/organic-chemistry-the-interplay-between-aromaticity-and-reactivity/?M=y#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks
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Save the date 📅 Feb 5, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET
Online #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸.
Join this FREE online talk and find out how one of chemistry’s oldest concepts can solve modern challenges.
#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks
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Largely Unregulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Taking Over a Texas River
Residents who live on the San Jacinto River fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. -
How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSPA nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
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How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSPA nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
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How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSPA nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
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How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSPA nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
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How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSPA nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
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In the wake of wildfires, toxic smoke is a lasting health concern >>
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527308122
#bushfires #FossilFuels #fires #suburbia #UrbanWildfires #air #pollution #toxins #smoke #plastics #VOCs #AirPollution #ClimateChange #benzene #acetone #health #harm #NSWLogging #PublicHealth -
New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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If you want, search for: contaminated water system, cancer, and forest fire.
Because physics, closed city and town water systems are deeply infused with forest fire chemicals, and they are carcinogenic. Causing cancer.
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`Inspired by the transition metal-mediated cleavage of inert bonds through multielectron reduction and functionalization, we have discovered an unprecedented ring-opening protocol for benzene and toluene.`
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Ah, a riveting tale of the modern internet: humans battling #CAPTCHA puzzles like medieval knights 🏰, except with far less excitement and far more #JavaScript 🤖🔧. Who knew enabling JavaScript was the key to proving your humanity? Apparently, the 200th #anniversary of benzene's discovery is best celebrated by wrestling with #browser #settings. 🥳💻
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article #internet #battles #benzene #HackerNews #ngated -
On thinking and benzene
This post resonated with me. In a tiny way, I am skeptical about it given how much I found myself agreeing with it. These are the ways I think. I will wait until you go finish reading.
Go. Do it. Now.
When you are back, you can read through the parts that just makes sense.
Disclaimer: The post argues that, by definition, LLMs cannot think. I mathematically agree with this. However, I will also be the first to admit that I am not the expert to define what thinking is.
I am very interested to know and debate if we land on LLMs thinking or not. However, this post is to expand and explore how humans think. I really liked the four parts of thinking that was highlighted in the post:
Thinking in silence;
Thinking through inspiration;
Thinking by writing;
Thinking by not (actively) thinking.I think they do a great job of highlighting the various parts of thinking as a process. However, each process is best at doing something slightly different. I break the job down as follows:
- exposure: this is the part where you expose your brain to “the lego bricks” as posited by the author. Or the “thinking through inspiration”
- processing: to me, this is your brain taking each lego brick and considering the various perspectives, aspects, pivots of it. This can be done by writing, by typing, in silence
- distilling: This is the part where your brain takes the kernel / lesson of the process and then stores it, in a way to be used in another right context again.
To be clear, I believe the author has hit the various ways in which you empower and encourage thinking accurately. I just wanted to call out that there are different parts of that process that might be encouraged by each of the rituals.
Finally, your brain does something incredibly powerful. I’ve never yet seen this happen by LLMs.
This is thinking by not thinking. It is passive. It happens without you forcing it, in the subconscious, while you do other things. I don’t know why it happens. I don’t understand what processes run in our subconscious mind in the background, I only know that I’ve experienced this before.
I always think back to the (apocryphal) story of the benzene ring structure. Put me in as a believer because it’s happened to me multiple times.
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I'm not a #chemist , so could someone who knows please explain why #benzene is such a hazard when several hundred tons of the stuff seeps into the ground following a train derailment at 95kph?
#Czechia #Olomouc #HustopečeNadBečvou #chemistry -
Investigators find: Czech fire train was going twice the speed limit http://dlvr.it/TJSG9F #benzene #chemicaltrain #Czechia #Derailment
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‘ETCS could have prevented Czech chemical train fire’ http://dlvr.it/TJJwBN #benzene #chemicaltrain #Czechia #Derailment
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Notre journaliste Samy Archimede a présenté son enquête sur la pollution industrielle à Saint-Nazaire lors d'une interview avec Le Média. 🔎
Il est revenu sur un cas de leucémie infantile à Donges révélé par « Splann ! » pour lequel une famille cherche des réponses (lire plus bas) 1/
#splann #saintnazaire #loireatlantique #donges #cancer #leucemie #maladie #sante #santepublique #industrie #raffinerie #totalenergies #benzene #pollution #environnement #ecologie
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The Tiny Lab Finding Danger in Your Medicine Cabinet
https://youtu.be/97vFXjuDcnw?si=IHkw6Mq6dtwAA1cH
#health #medicine #RxDrugs #OTCdrugs #FDA #ConsumerSafety #benzene #Zantac #Valisure
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People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers.
#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Infrastructure #News #Texas #Benzene #Channelview #Jancintoport #KSolv #Tceq #TimDoty
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#OilAndGas emissions in #Utah a threat to public health, report says
#Pollutants released into the atmosphere with excess #NaturalGas create smog and endanger public health, especially in #Duschesne and #Uintah counties.
by Anastasia Hufham, Oct. 21, 2023
"When natural gas producers waste gas and emit #methane in Utah, it’s not only the economy that suffers, according to a report. Air quality, public health and the environment lose out, too.
"'It’s not just methane,' Ashley Miller, executive director of Breathe Utah, told The Salt Lake Tribune. 'It’s other hazardous #AirPollutants that we really care about for public health. When you have a real serious air quality problem in these areas, there’s people living in these areas, and we want to protect human health as much as we can.'
"In 2016, the report says, air pollution from the oil and gas industry led to eight deaths per million, as well as 1,040 asthma exacerbations per million among #children.
"Oil and gas production sites emit what are called volatile organic compounds, or #VOCs, according to the report, when companies release natural gas into the atmosphere through #flaring, #venting and #leaking.
"Volatile organic compounds create ground-level #ozone, better known as #smog, which is a major public health concern in Utah. The report notes that volatile organic compounds in smog can worsen respiratory conditions, like #asthma, and even cause #HeartDisease. Also, #benzene, another pollutant released during oil and gas production, has been proven to cause #cancer.
The report was published by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., a research and consulting firm; the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit focused on finding solutions to environmental pollution; and Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group that advocates for the responsible use of taxpayer dollars.
"The report states that Utah’s #FossilFuel producers released 16 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2019, and 87% was lost from wells leaking natural gas due to faulty equipment.
"Duschesne and Uintah counties — where 85% of oil and gas wells are concentrated in the state — received F grades from the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report this year. Those two counties cover the Uinta Basin, where the #Uintah and #Ouray Indian Reservation is also located.
"'We really understand the importance and value of the fossil fuel industry in Utah, especially to those communities where it’s really the only source of revenue and jobs,' Miller said.
"Petroleum production in the Uinta Basin isn’t slowing down. The oil industry is booming in Duschesne and Uintah counties, and statewide oil and gas employment grew by 16% between 2021 and 2022.
"Emissions from oil and gas production also have concerning environmental impacts. Oil and gas production is a large emitter of methane, a #GreenhouseGas more powerful than carbon dioxide, which is the largest component of natural gas.
"The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposal to reduce methane emissions by ensuring that wells are checked frequently for leaks using monitoring equipment. The proposal would also require companies to continue monitoring wells for emissions until they are plugged after production."
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2023/10/21/oil-gas-emissions-utah-threat/
