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  1. This may not be the best place to ask but is it safe to burn treated softwood? Do the treatments become less toxic with time?
    Background - about 15 years ago I was given an old shed that had reached the end of its life as a shed but the panels were in reasonable nick so I used it to build a log store. At the time I hoped to get 3-5 years out of it.
    It's finally time to dismantle and dispose but the matchboard would make kindling if it's not toxic.

    #fire
    #chemicals
    #safety
    #timber
    #wood

  2. 🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

    By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs

    #wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

  3. #eu is NOT #europe and showing it's pro #chemistry #industry #evil: #EU #lobbyists of #chemical #companies like #BASF want regular #safety checks on #pesticides be canceled it would allow potential #PFAS #chemicals to poison the #soil forever #wtf #mankind

  4. "When #refineries, #fuel depots, or storage facilities burn or rupture, #petroleum products, toxic residues, & #firefighting #chemicals can seep into #soil, drain into #rivers & #canals, & eventually contaminate #groundwater. The result is not just less #water, but dirtier & more dangerous water."

  5. #LAFires Could Transform Former #Rocketdyne Site into #FEMATrailerPark

    January 2025

    "#Radiation and chemical vapors on 47-acre #CanogaPark site are too toxic for housing, but could be mitigated to safely house residents displaced by January 2025 fires in above-ground trailers.

    - Gross site contamination and development encumbrances prohibit residential housing
    - Hundreds of #FEMATrailers, mobile homes and even shipping containers could be placed on site safely and temporarily house thousands of #LosAngeles disaster victims [Or maybe a potential #DetentionCenter? Hmmmm...]
    - Efforts to clean up polluted west Valley groundwater could emulate 2024 agreement to remediate fouled east Valley aquifer and provide billions of gallons of clean water

    "The former Rocketdyne Canoga Park facility in the western #SanFernandoValley is so contaminated that it is nearly impossible to build anything on it other than light industry even though a developer wanted to construct homes on the site.

    "#Chemicals and #radiation severely contaminate the land and #groundwater in and around the site according to documentation obtained by EnviroReporter.com.

    "According to astonishing information never before covered in the media, areas offsite and around #RocketdyneCanoga are hot with high amounts of gross alpha and uranium radiation."

    Read more:
    enviroreporter.com/2025/01/la-

    #USPol #RadioactiveHazards #NoNukes #NoWar #EPAFail #USGovtFail #NuclearWeapons #RethinkNotRestart #NoNuclearWar #EnvironmentalDisaster
    #WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #UraniumContamination

  6. Forever chemicals like PFOA in drinking water

    No action by the EPA despite decades of internal studies by 3M and Dupont, blood tests of workers by St. Gobain -- even before the current wholesale rollback of regulations.

    As industry consultants said: "doubt is our product.

    "Safe to Drink", "Episode 1: You don’t know about this?"

    Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
    podbean.com/ea/dir-aj48y-2aaa7

    #PFOA #PFAS #chemicals #pollution #environment #podcast

  7. Forever chemicals like PFOA in drinking water

    No action by the EPA despite decades of internal studies by 3M and Dupont, blood tests of workers by St. Gobain -- even before the current wholesale rollback of regulations.

    As industry consultants said: "doubt is our product.

    "Safe to Drink", "Episode 1: You don’t know about this?"

    Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
    podbean.com/ea/dir-aj48y-2aaa7

    #PFOA #PFAS #chemicals #pollution #environment #podcast

  8. Forever chemicals like PFOA in drinking water

    No action by the EPA despite decades of internal studies by 3M and Dupont, blood tests of workers by St. Gobain -- even before the current wholesale rollback of regulations.

    As industry consultants said: "doubt is our product.

    "Safe to Drink", "Episode 1: You don’t know about this?"

    Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
    podbean.com/ea/dir-aj48y-2aaa7

    #PFOA #PFAS #chemicals #pollution #environment #podcast

  9. Forever chemicals like PFOA in drinking water

    No action by the EPA despite decades of internal studies by 3M and Dupont, blood tests of workers by St. Gobain -- even before the current wholesale rollback of regulations.

    As industry consultants said: "doubt is our product.

    "Safe to Drink", "Episode 1: You don’t know about this?"

    Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
    podbean.com/ea/dir-aj48y-2aaa7

    #PFOA #PFAS #chemicals #pollution #environment #podcast

  10. Forever chemicals like PFOA in drinking water

    No action by the EPA despite decades of internal studies by 3M and Dupont, blood tests of workers by St. Gobain -- even before the current wholesale rollback of regulations.

    As industry consultants said: "doubt is our product.

    "Safe to Drink", "Episode 1: You don’t know about this?"

    Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
    podbean.com/ea/dir-aj48y-2aaa7

    #PFOA #PFAS #chemicals #pollution #environment #podcast

  11. Deep strike #drones successfully hit large #Russian chemicals plant supplying country’s explosives production

    Attack on #Metafrax #Chemicals in Perm Krai carried out overnight Feb 16-17 by deep strike specialists from #SBU’s Alpha unit , which regularly strikes deep in #Russian territory

    Facility makes #methanol, #urotropine, #urea, #pentaerythritol production (precursors for weapons-grade explosives) is under international #sanctions

    kyivindependent.com/sbu-strike

    #RussianInvasion #Ukraine #war

  12. Deep strike #drones successfully hit large #Russian chemicals plant supplying country’s explosives production

    Attack on #Metafrax #Chemicals in Perm Krai carried out overnight Feb 16-17 by deep strike specialists from #SBU’s Alpha unit , which regularly strikes deep in #Russian territory

    Facility makes #methanol, #urotropine, #urea, #pentaerythritol production (precursors for weapons-grade explosives) is under international #sanctions

    kyivindependent.com/sbu-strike

    #RussianInvasion #Ukraine #war

  13. Deep strike #drones successfully hit large #Russian chemicals plant supplying country’s explosives production

    Attack on #Metafrax #Chemicals in Perm Krai carried out overnight Feb 16-17 by deep strike specialists from #SBU’s Alpha unit , which regularly strikes deep in #Russian territory

    Facility makes #methanol, #urotropine, #urea, #pentaerythritol production (precursors for weapons-grade explosives) is under international #sanctions

    kyivindependent.com/sbu-strike

    #RussianInvasion #Ukraine #war

  14. Deep strike #drones successfully hit large #Russian chemicals plant supplying country’s explosives production

    Attack on #Metafrax #Chemicals in Perm Krai carried out overnight Feb 16-17 by deep strike specialists from #SBU’s Alpha unit , which regularly strikes deep in #Russian territory

    Facility makes #methanol, #urotropine, #urea, #pentaerythritol production (precursors for weapons-grade explosives) is under international #sanctions

    kyivindependent.com/sbu-strike

    #RussianInvasion #Ukraine #war

  15. Deep strike #drones successfully hit large #Russian chemicals plant supplying country’s explosives production

    Attack on #Metafrax #Chemicals in Perm Krai carried out overnight Feb 16-17 by deep strike specialists from #SBU’s Alpha unit , which regularly strikes deep in #Russian territory

    Facility makes #methanol, #urotropine, #urea, #pentaerythritol production (precursors for weapons-grade explosives) is under international #sanctions

    kyivindependent.com/sbu-strike

    #RussianInvasion #Ukraine #war

  16. Meanwhile, the local public #utility in Dalton, #Georgia responsible for ensuring safe #DrinkingWater coordinated with #carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from #oversight.

    Year after year, the #chemicals traveled in #water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a #river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in Georgia & eastern #Alabama.

    #law #PFAs #PublicHealth

  17. Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire & its #toxic legacy Covering the world in #carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay

    …A lack of state & federal #regulations allowed carpet companies & their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of stain-&-soil resistant products.

    #law #EnvironmentalLaw #pollution #PFAs #ForeverChemicals #chemicals #PublicHealth #Climate #people #children #fish #wildlife #river #water #soil #DrinkingWater #Alabama #Georgia
    apnews.com/projects/pfas-forev+

  18. Ban Forever #Chemicals Now
    To the European Commission, European Parliament & EU Heads of State
    Petition We call on you to protect people’s health by strengthening, not weakening, Europe’s rules on toxic “forever chemicals”.
    Right now, you are considering changes that risk rolling back essential protections against #PFAScontamination
    Every delay means more toxic chemicals entering our water, our food, and our bodies - contamination that can last for generations
    Wemove.eu

    action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01-

  19. ‘The new narcotics’: how waste crime is causing environmental disaster across the UK.

    As organised criminals increase their involvement in waste crime, labelled the “new narcotics”, the scale of the environmental disaster they are creating is spreading.

    Criminals face few repercussions for dumping toxic rubbish as Environment Agency struggles to keep up.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251122

    #Waste #Toxic #Environment #EnvironmentAgency #OrganisedCrime #Crime #Society #LocalGovernment #UK #Chemicals

  20. Biodiversity of meadows degraded by fossil fuel machinery and fertilisers

    Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Technology assessment could be defined as "a form of policy research that examines short- and long term consequences (for example, societal, economic, ethical, legal) of the application of technology."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolo
    #biodiversity #meadows #progress #monoculture #industrialised #agriculture #farming #grazing #machines #chemicals #technology #TA

  21. Saturday, October 4, 2025

    A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  22. Saturday, October 4, 2025

    A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse: opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  23. Saturday, October 4, 2025

    A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse: opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  24. Saturday, October 4, 2025

    A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  25. Saturday, October 4, 2025

    A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025