#chemical — Public Fediverse posts
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El buque israelí Chemical Traveller llega a Cartagena
El buque israelí Chemical Traveller llega a Cartagena #tardigram #cartagena #buque #israel #chemical #traveller #Politica -
[#TRADESHOW] 2026 #Chengdu #International #Petroleum & #Chemical #Technology and #Equipment #Exhibition will be held from September 21 to 23, 2026, at Chengdu Century City New International #Convention and #Exhibition #Center. As a major petroleum and chemical technology #trade #show in Southwest# China, the #event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #oil and #gas equipment, petrochemical technology, #pipeline engineering, and #industrial solutions across #sectors. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/2026-chengdu-international-petroleum-chemical-technology-and-equipment-exhibition/
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[#TRADESHOW] 2026 #Chengdu #International #Petroleum & #Chemical #Technology and #Equipment #Exhibition will be held from September 21 to 23, 2026, at Chengdu Century City New International #Convention and #Exhibition #Center. As a major petroleum and chemical technology #trade #show in Southwest# China, the #event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #oil and #gas equipment, petrochemical technology, #pipeline engineering, and #industrial solutions across #sectors. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/2026-chengdu-international-petroleum-chemical-technology-and-equipment-exhibition/
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[#TRADESHOW] 2026 #Chengdu #International #Petroleum & #Chemical #Technology and #Equipment #Exhibition will be held from September 21 to 23, 2026, at Chengdu Century City New International #Convention and #Exhibition #Center. As a major petroleum and chemical technology #trade #show in Southwest# China, the #event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #oil and #gas equipment, petrochemical technology, #pipeline engineering, and #industrial solutions across #sectors. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/2026-chengdu-international-petroleum-chemical-technology-and-equipment-exhibition/
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[#TRADESHOW] 23rd #International #Chemical #Industry #Fair (#ICIF #China 2026) from September 15 to 17, 2026, at #SNIEC (#Shanghai New International #Expo #Centre). As one of the #leading chemical industry #exhibition in China, it brings together #suppliers, #manufacturers, #technology providers, and industrial #buyers across the full petrochemical and chemical #valuechain. #Event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #global industry #cooperation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/23rd-international-chemical-industry-fair-icif-china-2026/
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[#TRADESHOW] 23rd #International #Chemical #Industry #Fair (#ICIF #China 2026) from September 15 to 17, 2026, at #SNIEC (#Shanghai New International #Expo #Centre). As one of the #leading chemical industry #exhibition in China, it brings together #suppliers, #manufacturers, #technology providers, and industrial #buyers across the full petrochemical and chemical #valuechain. #Event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #global industry #cooperation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/23rd-international-chemical-industry-fair-icif-china-2026/
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[#TRADESHOW] 23rd #International #Chemical #Industry #Fair (#ICIF #China 2026) from September 15 to 17, 2026, at #SNIEC (#Shanghai New International #Expo #Centre). As one of the #leading chemical industry #exhibition in China, it brings together #suppliers, #manufacturers, #technology providers, and industrial #buyers across the full petrochemical and chemical #valuechain. #Event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #global industry #cooperation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/23rd-international-chemical-industry-fair-icif-china-2026/
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Persistent Organic Pollutants
This is a new phrase for me and think it will be worthwhile looking into. To see how many of these are freely available in South Africa. Will get there, learning names then looking them up is not my forte. But here is my list for future reference.
The 12 initial persistent organic pollutants (POPs), often called the “dirty dozen,” are a group of toxic, man-made chemicals targeted for global elimination under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
They are divided into three main categories:
Pesticides
- Aldrin: Used on soils to kill termites, corn rootworms, and grasshoppers.
- Chlordane: Used widely to control termites and agricultural pests.
- DDT: Used extensively to fight insect-borne diseases like malaria and as an agricultural insecticide.
- Dieldrin: Used primarily against termites and textile pests.
- Endrin: Sprayed as an insecticide on crop leaves.
- Heptachlor: Used to kill soil insects and termites.
- Hexachlorobenzene (HCB): Used as both a pesticide and an industrial chemical.
- Mirex: Used mainly to combat fire ants and termites.
- Toxaphene: Used as an insecticide on cotton, cereal grains, and livestock.
Core Characteristics
- Persistence: They remain intact in the environment for years or decades because they resist chemical, biological, and photolytic breakdown.
- Bioaccumulation: They build up in the fatty tissues of living organisms, meaning their concentration increases as they move up the food chain in a process called biomagnification.
- Long-Range Transport: Wind and water currents carry them across global boundaries, contaminating remote regions like the Arctic and Antarctica where they were never used.
- Toxicity: Exposure to even low levels is linked to serious health threats, including cancer, birth defects, and immune or endocrine system disruption.
Those lists take 5 seconds to find………..
That the chemicals are in stuff passed by our safety boards is still been used is much harder to prove. One can see the incidents, even deaths of some children a while back… ALL gets blamed on the Informal Markets and… of course the foreigners….
I don’t believe that for a nano second. I am sure as I learn to research in cyber I will be able to prove this in time.
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The “Quiet” Chemical Killers – Creosote
Creosote. From when I was young this stuff was the thing to put on gum poles that were set in the ground, for fence posts, telephone poles , any wood that would be exposed to the weather and the insects.
The smell was always horrible for me, but I saw our wooden gate in Wychwood that was treated with raw Linseed Oil, had to get done once a year or the wood would dry out in the Highveld sun. Many years later I put up a beautiful wood fence at my own house. Now I did not want to have to “paint” it every year with the Linseed Oil so decided to put Creosote on. I had a Border Colley, Quinn, that was like all them dogs, full of energy! While I treated the fence he was running around playing. I had put my container with Creosote on the fence, Quinn jumped and bounced off the fence, bringing the container down on him. It was on his chest mainly, thick hair, but go on his bare stomach and testicles. He loved water so washing him was no problem. The first probmlem was the exposed skin, it got very red and a little swollen. That was nothing. His testicles swelled up to twice the normal size, and he started damn dying! I had an old Scottish Vet that looked after my Border Collies, had 4, I rushed Quinn to see him. Now he was a fine fellow, loved animals… and Whiskey. His office was a converted house, he spent 3 nights , sleeping on the couch with Quinn on a mattress next to him. And a bottle of Scotch. Both survived. I then looked up Creosote, in a BOOK. Only remember one thing that stuck in my mind. It said that if you want to store eggs in a wooden shed, you cannot paint the shed with Creosote, the stored eggs will go vrot!!! (Rotten).
Jump to the here and now, my Big Five Wars, Marloth Park. I see HUNDREDs of treated pieces, of various lengths and sizes, in ALL the waterways leading to the Crocodile River IN the Kruger National Park. This alone is no good! Never mind all the poles planted here in use, and all the spilled Creosote.
Now if Creosote in the air of a shed makes an egg go rotten, what does it leach into our soil and eventually the ground water?
Modern life makes it pretty simple to look up things like this, no Dewey system any more. I already have a very good idea of what we shall find, let us have a look…..
In South Africa, the type of creosote sold and used mainly is Coal-Tar Creosote Type 2 and Type 3, manufactured in compliance with the South African National Standard (SANS 616).
First thing to check would be what this Government is using, as the articles written to date about the poisons in both pesticides and herbicides show that South Africa and Keyna use OPENLY, chemical substances that are banned in most of the world, never mind the illegal shit… that seems to have killed those 20 Elephant!!!!
SANS 616 Type 3 Creosote: This is the primary grade manufactured by suppliers like ICS Hydrocarbons. It is highly concentrated and used extensively for the high-temperature vacuum pressure impregnation of timber poles.
SANS 616 Type 2 Creosote: Another major standard coal-tar based industrial wood preservative.
Type C Creosote (Carbolineum): This is a thinner, modified creosote oil blend formulated specifically for manual brush-on applications. It is widely distributed to consumers at popular retail hardware outlets like Builders, Cashbuild, and Agrimark via brands such as Powafix.
The term “safe creosote” is highly misleading. In the wood preservation industry, “safe” s means that when it is applied under strict factory conditions, the chemicals become locked into the wood cells.
Coal-tar creosote even when manufactured to strict SANS 616 standards is highly toxic and heavily restricted globally due to severe environmental and health risks
The Environmental Damage
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Creosote is packed with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) like benzo(a)pyrene. These compounds are persistent, meaning they do not break down easily and remain in the ecosystem for decades.
Soil Contamination: Creosote-treated poles notoriously “bleed” or leach oily residue into the surrounding soil over time. This kills off beneficial soil microbes and can be absorbed by nearby plant roots.
Aquatic Toxicity: It is incredibly dangerous to aquatic life. If creosote leaches into groundwater or is used for structures near rivers, dams, or coastlines, it bioaccumulates in fish and invertebrates, causing mutations and death.
Looked to see what lies the marketing people come up with, obviously they going to have to lie in order to continue to sell to the New Wave “Organic Everything, Save the Planet types. They came up with this.
Creosote vs. “Creocote” (The Retail Alternative)
If you buy “creosote” at a local hardware store like Builders or Agrimark for a DIY project, you are often actually buying Creocote or a modified Carbolineum.
What it is: These are consumer-grade, thinned-down bitumen or oil-based wood derivatives designed to mimic the smell and look of real creosote.
Is it safe? While it contains significantly fewer toxic PAHs than industrial coal-tar creosote, it is still an oil-based hydrocarbon. If it washes into your garden soil or storm drains, it acts exactly like an oil spill, coating organisms and contaminating water sources.
How can anyone that is WATCHING this planet die and faster all the time because of loss of species, find this acceptable. Just ban the shit in Nature Reserve for a start…… ja ja and Pigs will soon fly…..
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The “Quiet” Chemical Killers – Chlorine
Started with the Doom Fogger , just one of the 100s of chemicals used extensively in the Game Lodges.
To write on every type of Doom like spray to prove it should not be allowed in ANY Reserves would be a mission on its own there are so many. Later I will just attack , ja attack, we not playing Painball here, every single shop in the Parks that sell any poisons. The “Quiet” ones will have to point out. Although should NOT have to point it out to ANY Lodge owner. The ALL say they support Nature Conservation, claim huge knowledge of the subject for the most part….
Every 5 Star Lodge has at least one , crystal clear pool, and every one I have seen, the runoff just goes into the ground. This is what the Greenpeace site told me.
Pool chlorine runoff damages the environment by altering soil chemistry, killing local vegetation, and introducing toxic chemical residue into natural water sources. In Bushveld and game-lodge settings, this contaminated backwash or overflow endangers localized wildlife, amphibians, and sensitive aquatic ecosystems.
Climate Change? Have a theory just recently about this. We all know it is a money making thing, but too many people believe the Trust the Science “facts”, still!! After looking at poisons for one month only, the Climate Change is Mickey Mouse, even if all we read is true. Recently the Bees got a bit of attention, they die , we die. This is biologically sound reasoning. BUT. Few things, first it is NOT only if the Bees go, we are at a point that the loss of even one tiny species of insect more and we take another big step towards …well, Armageddon. Then, I have just checked on all the insecticides/pesticides. I was sure they ALL kill bees, then I researched and found out this is 100% true. We have not even looked at herbicides yet!! That is another big issue I shall get to, as Agri Chems are just as bad. Time…. I will get there.
The reason that this chemical became the do all and end all of a clean pool is not a surprise……
The Post-WWII Backyard Boom & Mass Production
Chlorine production scaled up massively during World War I and II for industrial and chemical warfare purposes. When the war ended, chemical manufacturers had vast amounts of infrastructure to repurpose. [1]
A lot of things we EAT have a similar history!!!
I will make a quick post on that, but as you know, my concern for the general unwashed masses is not…. that great. It will be a just facts one.
Big Five Wars is my main mission for now and they also get updated regularly.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐝🥚 Worker #bees normally intercept #pesticides entering a hive, shielding the queen. #UCDavis researchers showed that when chronic exposure overwhelms this filtration, queens offload the #chemical burden into their #eggs, contaminating the next generation and possibly contributing to delayed colony collapse.
👉 https://scitechdaily.com/honeybee-queens-may-pass-toxic-chemicals-to-the-next-generation/
#honeybees #science #pollinators #biology #entomology #nature #experiment #research #beekeeping #agriculture #food #honey #chemistry
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After bold pledge, EPA shelves microplastics testing in U.S. drinking water
For the next five years, the Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it will not r…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Americans #announcement #Chemical #contaminantcandidatelist #EPA #humanhealth #list #mandatorymonitoringlist #microplastic #pharmaceutical #pharmaceuticalprioritycontaminant #Science #time #u.s.drinkingwater #year #Zeldin
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After bold pledge, EPA shelves microplastics testing in U.S. drinking water
For the next five years, the Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it will not r…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Americans #announcement #Chemical #contaminantcandidatelist #EPA #humanhealth #list #mandatorymonitoringlist #microplastic #pharmaceutical #pharmaceuticalprioritycontaminant #Science #time #u.s.drinkingwater #year #Zeldin
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What is the main chemical in baking soda?
A. Sodium chloride
B. Sodium bicarbonate
C. Calcium carbonate
D. Potassium iodide
#chemical #bakingsoda #food #additives ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/1130092409221646/posts/1368939728670245 -
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐚💉 Cone #snails pack a #venom with over 1,000 unique peptides – a #chemical toolkit already yielding one #FDA-approved non-addictive #painkiller.
Researchers at #Harvard and the University of #Queensland are now exploring these #toxins for treating #diabetes, nerve damage, #epilepsy, and #cancer, saying they’ve barely scratched the surface.
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cone-snail-venom-medicinal-uses/
#conotoxin #marinebiology #ziconotide #drugs #neurobiology #coralreef #biochemistry #ocean #nature
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रासायनिक मूलद्रव्यांचा शोध – दमी. त्रीफोनोव, व. त्रीफोनोव (Chemical Elements How They Were Discovered In Marathi by D. N. Trifonov, V. D. Trifonov )
या पुस्तकामध्ये आपण रसायनशास्त्रातील “मुळाक्षरां “ची कशी रचना झाली, तसेच आपल्या चौकस बुद्धिमत्तेतून संशोधकांनी एकामागोमाग एकेका नव्या मूलद्रव्याचा शोध कसा लावला याचे विवेचन करणार आहोत.
बहुतेक सर्व रासायनिक मूलद्रव्यांवर अनेक पुस्तके लिहिली गेली आहेत. त्यांची संख्या एवढी प्रचंड आहे की त्यांचे एक स्वतंत्र ग्रंथालयच होईल. त्या पुस्तकांमध्ये, मूलद्रव्यांचा अंतर्भाव असणारे खडक व खनिजे, त्यांच्या नि- एकर्षणाच्या विविध पद्धती, मूलद्रव्यांचे भौतिक आणि रासायनिक गुणधर्म यांचा आढावा घेतलेला असतो. काही मूलद्रव्ये आश्चर्य वाटण्याएवढी मुबलक आहेत. त्यांचे उपयोगही अनपेक्षित वाटावेत एवढ्या भिन्नभिन्न क्षेत्रात केलेले आढळतील. खरे तर आजच्या प्रगत वैज्ञानिक युगात प्रत्येक मूलद्रव्याचा काहीना काहीतरी महत्त्वपूर्ण उपयोग आहेच आहे असेच दिसेल. प्रत्येक मूलद्रव्याचे त्याचे स्वतःचे असे खास “चरित्र” असून ती सारी आपापल्या परीने वैशिष्ट्यपूर्णही आहेत हे खरे की मूलद्रव्यांच्या शोधांच्या इतिहासाबाबत अद्यापीही बरीच संदिग्धता आहे व इतिहासकारांना न सुटलेले प्रश्न अजूनही सोडविता आलेले नाहीत. कुणी सांगावे, त्यांच्यापैकी एखादा- दुसरा इतिहासकार तुम्हीही असू शकाल !
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐚💉 Cone #snails pack a #venom with over 1,000 unique peptides – a #chemical toolkit already yielding one #FDA-approved non-addictive #painkiller.
Researchers at #Harvard and the University of #Queensland are now exploring these #toxins for treating #diabetes, nerve damage, #epilepsy, and #cancer, saying they’ve barely scratched the surface.
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cone-snail-venom-medicinal-uses/
#conotoxin #marinebiology #ziconotide #drugs #neurobiology #coralreef #biochemistry #ocean #nature
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For #Indigenous communities in ‘#Alberta,’ the #OilIndustry has left an ugly stain
Facing #OilSpills, evacuations and #illness — nations downstream of the #OilSands grieve their way of life, as the #corporations polluting their water get richer
By Brandi Morin, December 7, 2023
Excerpt: "The rush of the wind and sprays of water add to the thrill as Jason Castor guides his riverboat through a stretch of #LakeAthabasca near #FortChipewyan, in #Treaty8 territories. If he slows down, his boat could get stuck in the mud or even flip over because the water levels in this spot are remarkably low. He steers around buoys, dodges logs and other debris while accelerating to the mouth of the channel, which he knows should be deep enough to navigate at an average speed.
"While trawling his boat further down the river, Castor points to odd-looking clusters resembling dirty foam floating by.
" 'There’s just a slurry of a foam that looks like #oil or some kind of #chemical in there,' says Castor, a 42-year-old father, construction business owner and member of the #AthabascaChipewyan #FirstNation (#ACFN).
"He’s been a traditional hunter, trapper and fisherman for nearly 20 years and has documented strange changes in the water, the land and animals.
"Something’s going on in the river, he says.
" 'They say that it’s natural, well, I know that that’s not natural because I’ve been on the river my whole life,' he explains as he points to brown and #WhiteFoam, #OilSheens and other discoloured formations floating on the river.
"Nowadays, it’s risky to navigate these waterways because of industrial intakes like the #WACBennettDam to the west in B.C.; the #AlbertaOilSands just up the river and impacts from #ClimateChange.
"The #PeaceAthabascaDelta is the second-largest #freshwater delta in the world.
"The #AthabascaRiver, and the larger delta, also sit atop the world’s largest known reservoir of #CrudeBitumen.
"The industry that has sprung up around it drives Alberta’s and Canada’s economy, employing about 138,000 people. In 2021, crude bitumen production totaled approximately 3.3 million barrels per day. The oil sands energy sector including oil sands, conventional #OilAndGas, mining and quarrying is valued at about $18 billion.
"But while Canada prospers off the oil sands industry, #Indigenous communities downstream are dealing with its #toxic impacts.
"Not only are the water levels fluctuating, but the health of the water flowing through the Athabasca River is jeopardized."
#CanPol #CanadaPol #Alberta #TarSands #BigOilAndGas #OilSands #WaterIsLife #Pollution #Environment #Oiligarchy
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EPA and HHS will study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in water
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #capitalletter #chemical #Co-founder #drinkingwater #environmentalagency #epa #federalhealth #herbicide #Kennedy #MAHA #microplastic #movement #pharmaceutical #Science #table #zeldin
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EPA and HHS will study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in water
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #capitalletter #chemical #Co-founder #drinkingwater #environmentalagency #epa #federalhealth #herbicide #Kennedy #MAHA #microplastic #movement #pharmaceutical #Science #table #zeldin
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Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades.
The standard approach to detecting #life on other worlds involves scanning #exoplanet #atmospheres for #oxygen, #methane, and #ozone, whose presence is difficult to explain without #biology.
It's a clever idea, but it carries a hidden flaw. That entire shopping list was written by studying Earth. It is, inevitably, a search for life like us.
The list of ways that #chemistry alone can accidentally mimic these #biosignature gases is growing faster than the list of new ways to detect life.
Each new false positive scenario demands even more information about the #planet to rule it out, and there is a genuine question about whether that information can ever be gathered exhaustively.
But there is a solution.
#Assembly theory doesn't ask what #molecules are present in an #atmosphere. Instead, it asks how hard they were to make.
Every molecule can be assigned an assembly index, a minimum number of construction steps required to build it from basic #chemical building blocks.
Simple molecules are easy to assemble by chance, but truly complex ones, requiring many sequential steps, don't arise without something doing a great deal of deliberate selection.
That something would then be life itself.
#astrobiology #astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-life.htmlPaper by Walker et al. (2026): https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11086
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#Scientists created #microscopic reactors capable of driving light-powered #chemical processes by designing metal complex surfactants (MeCSs) that self-assemble into #nanoscale spheres called micelles. This innovation could drastically reduce #pollution in industries including #pharmaceuticals and materials science, where harmful organic solvents are often necessary.
#Chemistry #sflorg
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Welcome to the... Cat! This Cat is a professional chemical and during the Pandemic this cat was Water on the street. How inspiring! Read all about it...
#cat #awfulcat #innocation #new #wow #medicine #genz #tiktokfunny #marketingmoments #heartwarming #chemical #doctor
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#China #Petroleum & #Chemical #Corporation (#Sinopec) hosted a landmark #multilateral #event titled “#Hydrogen Powering #Climate Action: Towards A #Clean #Energy #Future with Net-Zero #Emissions” on November 13 at the China Pavilion during #COP29. This marks a #pivotal moment as the first hydrogen-themed event led by a #Chinese #company at the prestigious climate #conference. https://cnbusinessforum.com/sinopec-leads-hydrogen-dialogue-at-cop29-with-groundbreaking-initiatives/
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'Reckless Conduct' of #BigOil Caused #HurricaneMilton—And Now They Should Pay
"The failure by our political class to deal with this completely solvable issue is staggering and shameful," wrote one journalist.
Julia Conley
Oct 09, 2024[...] "As Nathan J. Robinson wrote in Current Affairs, climate scientists and meteorologists have unequivocally told oil companies and policymakers that #FossilFuel extraction is causing planetary heating, which has led to higher temperatures in oceans and bodies of water including the Gulf of Mexico, where the rapidly strengthening hurricane formed.
"But despite the knowledge that fossil fuel giants like #ExxonMobil and #Shell had decades ago that drilling for oil and gas would cause '#ViolentWeather' and 'potentially #catastrophic events,' the industry's profits have only grown as the U.S. has continued to subsidize their #pollution-causing activities.
"'The failure by our political class to deal with this completely solvable issue is staggering and shameful,' wrote Robinson. 'Many of them have children and grandchildren. Presumably they would like their descendants to inherit a world worth living in. And they could make that happen. Unfortunately, it would require challenging the power and profits of some of America's most influential corporations.'
"In the Substack newsletter Heated, Arielle Samuelson explained on Wednesday how fossil fuel extraction and planetary heating 'mutated' Hurricane Milton, which stunned weather experts this week as its wind speeds grew at a record-breaking pace, from 60 miles per hour to 180 miles per hour in just 36 hours.
"It was the second time in recent weeks that a hurricane in the region has intensified quickly; areas that are expected to take a direct hit from Milton are still overwhelmed by the destruction left by Hurricane Helene.
"Hot temperatures in the planets' oceans and gulfs fuels hurricanes, and as Samuelson noted, scientists say the 'extremely hot' Gulf of Mexico 'was made far more likely by heat-trapping pollutants from the fossil fuel, #agriculture, #chemical, and #cement industries.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-hurricanes#BigOilAndGas #CementIndustries #BigAg #BigChem #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather
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When #pregnant #farmworkers & others are exposed to the #pesticide, their #babies can experience changes to fetal #thyroid hormone levels, which are linked to low #birth weight, impaired #brain development, decreased #IQ & #impaired #MotorSkills later in life.
“#DCPA is so dangerous that it needs to be removed from the market immediately,” Michal Freedhoff, asst admin for the #EPA’s Office of #Chemical Safety & #Pollution Prevention, said. -
In a #Cleveland suburb, this old #CoalPlant will soon be replaced by a massive #SolarFarm
Inside Climate News
July 26, 2024"#CoalFired power plant that started running more than a century ago is about to get a long-overdue retirement, and its electricity will be replaced by a solar farm and a #BatteryStorage system on an existing #brownfield.
"The project in #PainesvilleOhio, a suburb of Cleveland, is one of about two dozen clean energy and emissions-reduction initiatives across the country that are sharing $4.3 billion in funding announced on Monday by the #BidenAdministration.
"It was a happy day for Doug Lewis, Painesville’s city manager. He and his colleagues have been considering how to close the city-owned power plant and replace it with a cleaner alternative. They also have wanted to redevelop the site of a long-shuttered #chemical factory near the shores of Lake Erie.
"The federal government will now pay about $80 million to install solar and batteries on the former factory land and to beautify the rest of the brownfield by planting a #meadow of #wildflowers and constructing a #BikeTrail. The trail will provide a connection between Painesville and a regional trail that runs along the lake.
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"The solar farm will have capacity of 35 megawatts and the battery storage system will have capacity of 10 megawatts. It will be capable of running for three hours at that level before recharging.
"The new construction will be on land that once was home to the Diamond Shamrock Corp. chemical plant, which operated there from 1912 to 1977 and occupied about 1,100 acres. The plant’s products included baking soda, chromium compounds, and hydrochloric and sulfuric acids.
"Since the site closed, the community and the federal government have gone through the slow and trying process of removing #pollutants to make it site safe for redevelopment.
The current project can serve as a case study for many things, including regional cooperation. Painesville, in Lake County, worked with officials in neighboring Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland city government to file an application with the federal government that included #RenewableEnergy projects for all of them."
#SolarFarms
#RenewablesNow
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#LocalEnergy
#NoNewNukes
#NoNukes #Ohio #Bicycles #BikePaths #GreenSpace #Reclamation #SolarSundays -
What happened after Portland Oregon police teargassed protesters – a visual investigation
This model is the first of its kind to calculate the #chemical #concentrations in the air and deposits on the ground during a major #teargas #event in the US.
It builds on existing reports and litigation alleging the months-long teargas use during the summer of #protests caused severe #injuries, long-term #health problems, #menstrual #irregularities and #environmental hazards.
The research renews pressure on the scandal-ridden #police department and raises significant public health and #civil #rights concerns at a time when law enforcement agencies in the US and across the globe are escalating their use of teargas on crowds, including against #protesters for abortion rights and police accountability.
“Teargas is a form of #violence that is formless and shapeless and to a certain extent invisible,” said Lola Conte, an advanced researcher with FA, which is based at Goldsmiths, University of London. “Visualizing allows us to understand the massive scale of the #spread, and I hope this makes the #harm unignorable and shows that something is #failing on so many levels with the use of teargas.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/17/teargas-effect-portland-police-investigation -
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