"Ban Gas Stoves? Just the Idea Gets Some in Washington Boiling."
"The nation’s top consumer watchdog agency raised concerns about indoor air pollution from gas stoves. A political firestorm ensued."
Source: NYTimes, 01/12/2023
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"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup"
"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."
Source: Reuters, 01/11/2023
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"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill"
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023
"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066"
"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023
"US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears"
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 01/09/2023
"Biden Administration Moves to Tighten Limits on Deadly Air Pollution"
"A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color."
Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2023
"Report: US’s Largest Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Earns D-Plus"
"An environmental group gave the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in an evaluation released on Thursday — the same grade earned in its last report two years ago."
Source: AP, 01/06/2023
"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay"
"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 01/06/2023
"Biden EPA Backs Off Plan to Crack Down on Smog From Permian Oil Drillers"
"The Biden administration is deferring a plan to crack down on smog in the drilling hotbed of the Permian Basin, handing a win to oil producers along with their allies in Texas and New Mexico."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/06/2023
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