#pollutant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pollutant, aggregated by home.social.
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Though there are many #heavymetals that #coalmining can release to our #freshwater, #selenium has been noted as a particularly risky #pollutant as it bioaccumulates in the #environment reaching toxic levels for #fish, #animals living in riparian areas, and potentially in agricultural #soils and #plants grown in them. This is a risk not only to human #health and the health of aquatic #ecosystems, but also risks the reputation of our regional agricultural products.
9/14
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Real-world #testing shows which #vehicle models emit more deadly #pollutant NOx
"Most petrol vehicles hv low #NOx #emissions.. But most #diesel cars flunked te test.. NOx spreads outwards fr highways & suburb streets. Levels drop at ~100-200m fr te source, but remain high in busy traffic areas. Breathed in, LT exposure to NOx can damage te lungs & lead to #diseases like bronchitis & asthma. It generaly inflames & stresses cells in te body, which's linked w #heartdisease"🤦♂️
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-01/heres-how-much-nox-pollution-your-car-emits/106000566 -
Real-world #testing shows which #vehicle models emit more deadly #pollutant NOx
"Most petrol vehicles hv low #NOx #emissions.. But most #diesel cars flunked te test.. NOx spreads outwards fr highways & suburb streets. Levels drop at ~100-200m fr te source, but remain high in busy traffic areas. Breathed in, LT exposure to NOx can damage te lungs & lead to #diseases like bronchitis & asthma. It generaly inflames & stresses cells in te body, which's linked w #heartdisease"🤦♂️
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-01/heres-how-much-nox-pollution-your-car-emits/106000566 -
Real-world #testing shows which #vehicle models emit more deadly #pollutant NOx
"Most petrol vehicles hv low #NOx #emissions.. But most #diesel cars flunked te test.. NOx spreads outwards fr highways & suburb streets. Levels drop at ~100-200m fr te source, but remain high in busy traffic areas. Breathed in, LT exposure to NOx can damage te lungs & lead to #diseases like bronchitis & asthma. It generaly inflames & stresses cells in te body, which's linked w #heartdisease"🤦♂️
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-01/heres-how-much-nox-pollution-your-car-emits/106000566 -
Real-world #testing shows which #vehicle models emit more deadly #pollutant NOx
"Most petrol vehicles hv low #NOx #emissions.. But most #diesel cars flunked te test.. NOx spreads outwards fr highways & suburb streets. Levels drop at ~100-200m fr te source, but remain high in busy traffic areas. Breathed in, LT exposure to NOx can damage te lungs & lead to #diseases like bronchitis & asthma. It generaly inflames & stresses cells in te body, which's linked w #heartdisease"🤦♂️
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-01/heres-how-much-nox-pollution-your-car-emits/106000566 -
Real-world #testing shows which #vehicle models emit more deadly #pollutant NOx
"Most petrol vehicles hv low #NOx #emissions.. But most #diesel cars flunked te test.. NOx spreads outwards fr highways & suburb streets. Levels drop at ~100-200m fr te source, but remain high in busy traffic areas. Breathed in, LT exposure to NOx can damage te lungs & lead to #diseases like bronchitis & asthma. It generaly inflames & stresses cells in te body, which's linked w #heartdisease"🤦♂️
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-01/heres-how-much-nox-pollution-your-car-emits/106000566 -
Joseph Goffman, who led the #air office at the #EPA under the #Biden admin, said the rule would all but certainly face #legal challenges if it is finalized.
He said the #Trump admin’s proposed rule conflicts w/the 2007 #SCOTUS ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, a landmark case that found for the first time that #GreenhouseGases were a #pollutant under the #CleanAirAct. That led the EPA to make the finding in 2009 that said that 6 greenhouse gases were harming #PublicHealth.
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#Estuary #bacteria offer hope for #pollutant #detoxification in saline waters.
#biormediation #HOC #Organohalide-respiring_bacteria #Dehalogenimonas
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-estuary-bacteria-pollutant-detoxification-saline.html
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https://totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/pollutant8
This one is a heartbreaker, for the heartbroken.
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NASA Maps Reveal #Toxic #Emissions Over Major #US Cities
by Adam Kovac, August 24, 2023
"NASA’s new space-based air pollution monitoring system has sent back its first maps, showing #CarTraffic brings down air quality in several #MajorCities.
"The six maps were made from data from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (#TEMPO), which launched in April. In scans taken over a six-hour period on August 2, high concentrations of #NitrogenDioxide, a toxic #pollutant tied to car and #smokestack emissions, can be seen hovering over #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #LasVegas and #WashingtonDC.
"While the location of #AirPollution shown in the maps isn’t surprising, the data is only the tip of the iceberg for TEMPO, the first space-based instrument designed to continuously monitor air quality over #NorthAmerica. TEMPO principal investigator Kelly Chance said there are currently 50 scientific studies under way that will make use of data generated by the program. The program will truly get underway in October when the instrument will begin transmitting hourly daytime scans."
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#Farmers Deceived About #Sewage #Sludge Safety
April 2, 2010
"On March 27th [2010] Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the #Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US #EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as #fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia counties without informing farmers of the serious risks associated with this practice. The VA code specifies, that to be valid, these permits can only be granted with the #InformedConsent of the landowner.
"The Federal #CleanWater Act defines sewage sludge as a #pollutant. Most of the pollutants that sewage treatment plants remove from wastewater concentrate in the resulting sludge. Exempt from #hazardous and solid waste laws, sludge is being spread on #agricultural land, despite mounting scientific evidence and field reports that using this contaminated waste as a cheap fertilizer is neither safe, beneficial, nor sustainable.
"The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service as well as Nutri-Blend Inc., the company that needs permits to spread sludge, are failing to provide landowners with the necessary facts, so they can make an informed decision whether or not to treat their land with sludge. The widely distributed Extension Service biosolids fact sheets-- although deceptively dated May 9, 2009-- provide out-dated, inaccurate, incomplete, and in some cases, misleading information. They overstate the alleged benefits and totally ignore the known risks and recent documented evidence of adverse health and #environmental impacts linked to sludge use. The fact sheets and brochures give the illusion that land applying sewage sludge, a complex and variable mixture of #HumanWaste and thousands of industrial #chemicals, many of which are #toxic and persistent, is a safe and normal agricultural practice.
"The information provided to landowners deceptively downplays the health risks of exposure to odors, odorant compounds, endotoxins, bacteria-laden dusts, and toxic gases at land application sites that can cause severe and permanent #lung damage. Nor are farmers told that typical sludges generated in industrialized urban areas contain not only pathogens, but also #PCBs, #dioxins, #carcinogens, #pharmaceuticals, flame retardants [#PFAS], and hormone disrupting chemicals that can damage developing organisms in parts per trillion. Many of these pollutants do not break down once they are applied to land. Worse, partial breakdown products are often more toxic than the parent material. Yet federal regulations require testing and standards for only nine toxic metals. Perhaps most important, the information provided to farmers fails to disclose that the National Academies of Science has indicated that while there are serious health concerns associated with many of the constituents of sewage sludge, there is too much uncertainty to scientifically predict the true health and environmental risks, when this complex waste mixture is applied to land.
"Finally, farmers are not told that sludge-exposure has been linked to illnesses, human deaths, livestock mortalities, groundwater pollution, and permanently degraded land. Unless there is a true and accurate disclosure of all the risks associated with this practice, there can be no true consent.
"Without informed consent, the state should not be issuing permits."
Link to archived web page (TY @internetarchive!):
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227022631/https://organicconsumers.org/press/farmers-deceived-about-sewage-sludge-safety#PFOS #ChemicalIndustries #ToxicWaste #WaterIsLife #ForeverChemicals
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Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.
These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.
Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.
Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.
RESIST TO EXIST
Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7
#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse
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Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.
These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.
Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.
Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.
RESIST TO EXIST
Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7
#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse
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Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.
These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.
Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.
Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.
RESIST TO EXIST
Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7
#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse
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Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.
These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.
Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.
Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.
RESIST TO EXIST
Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7
#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse
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Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.
These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.
Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.
Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.
RESIST TO EXIST
Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7
#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse