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#AI Boom Poses Growing #PublicHealth Threat, Former #EPA Officials Warn
Air #pollution from gas #powerplants to run #datacenters is expected to add at least $20B in annual health care costs by 2028
Environmental Protection Network examined pollution from power plants, gas turbines and diesel generators needed to meet data centers’ demand. And it listed 30 federal actions taken by Trump admin it warned would increase pollution-related health risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html
https://archive.is/20260910155304/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html

#AI Boom Poses Growing #PublicHealth Threat, Former #EPA Officials Warn
Air #pollution from gas #powerplants to run #datacenters is expected to add at least $20B in annual health care costs by 2028
Environmental Protection Network examined pollution from power plants, gas turbines and diesel generators needed to meet data centers’ demand. And it listed 30 federal actions taken by Trump admin it warned would increase pollution-related health risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html
https://archive.is/20260910155304/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html

#AI Boom Poses Growing #PublicHealth Threat, Former #EPA Officials Warn
Air #pollution from gas #powerplants to run #datacenters is expected to add at least $20B in annual health care costs by 2028
Environmental Protection Network examined pollution from power plants, gas turbines and diesel generators needed to meet data centers’ demand. And it listed 30 federal actions taken by Trump admin it warned would increase pollution-related health risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html
https://archive.is/20260910155304/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html

#AI Boom Poses Growing #PublicHealth Threat, Former #EPA Officials Warn
Air #pollution from gas #powerplants to run #datacenters is expected to add at least $20B in annual health care costs by 2028
Environmental Protection Network examined pollution from power plants, gas turbines and diesel generators needed to meet data centers’ demand. And it listed 30 federal actions taken by Trump admin it warned would increase pollution-related health risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html
https://archive.is/20260910155304/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html

#AI Boom Poses Growing #PublicHealth Threat, Former #EPA Officials Warn
Air #pollution from gas #powerplants to run #datacenters is expected to add at least $20B in annual health care costs by 2028
Environmental Protection Network examined pollution from power plants, gas turbines and diesel generators needed to meet data centers’ demand. And it listed 30 federal actions taken by Trump admin it warned would increase pollution-related health risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html
https://archive.is/20260910155304/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/climate/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-health.html

Trump issues ultimatum to Iran over Strait of Hormuz closure

President Trump now issuing *** new ultimatum on Saturday, giving Iran 48 hour…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #energyfacility #Energyinfrastructure #gasprice #GasPrices #hormuzclosure #Iran #iranwar #Israel #ldnd #newthreat #Oil #oilprice #Pentagon #powerplants #PresidentDonaldTrump #Region #saturday #strait #StraitofHormuz #Trump #Trumpadministration #u-s-central-command #u.s. #ultimatum
https://www.newsbeep.com/447056/

Trump issues ultimatum to Iran over Strait of Hormuz closure

Trump issues ultimatum to Iran over Strait of Hormuz closure President Donald …
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #energyfacility #Energyinfrastructure #gasprice #GasPrices #hormuzclosure #Iran #iranwar #Israel #ldnd #newthreat #Oil #oilprice #Pentagon #powerplants #PresidentDonaldTrump #Region #saturday #strait #StraitofHormuz #Trump #Trumpadministration #u-s-central-command #u.s. #ultimatum
https://www.newsbeep.com/446793/

HT @rmblaber1956

#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding

Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST

"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.

"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.

"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.

" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-environment-climate-lawsuit

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY

#USPol #ClimateChange #EPAFail #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #FossilFuelIndustry #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporatePolluters

Monday, November 24, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/monday-november-24-2025/

If #Cities Are Going To Be Packed With #ParkingLots, They Should All Have #Solar Canopies
More than 5% of developed land in the United States is dedicated to parking lots.
A study attempted to determine what would happen if #Walmart covered all 3,571 of its Super locations’ parking lots with #solarpanels, the solar power generation would be 11.1GW. That’s about the same as twelve large coal-fired #powerplants, enough electricity to provide power to 8.325 million homes. https://jalopnik.com/if-cities-are-going-to-be-packed-with-parking-lots-the-1850880420

#SabineHossenfelder - I recently learned that #WasteHeat will #Boil the #Oceans in about 400 years...

"All #PowerPlants create #Waste #Heat that contributes to #GlobalWarming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if #Mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an #AirConditioner for the #Planet. #Scientists have come up with some ideas on how to address the problem."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder