2/ In the US, a major chemical incident happens every 2 days on average and 1 in 2 residents live in a "worst case scenario" disaster zone for a high-risk chemical facility.
1/ Plastic production is dangerous. Last week some 50,000 California residents evacuated their homes after a GKN Aerospace facility reported a leak from a massive tank storing 7,000 gallons (26,000+ litres) of MMA, a toxic and highly flammable chemical used to make plastic.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Liberal and conservative Ohioans have come together to oppose an amendment to require voters to show photo ID at the polls.
by Morgan Trau
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Microbeads are banned in Illinois, and they're one kind of microplastics *not* found in the Mississippi River. This means we need to keep pushing for more regulations! https://t.co/z47pU1Km8b
This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.
Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.
In 2015, an oil pipeline closed after spewing over 120,000 gallons of oil onto the coast of California, hurting wildlife and local communities.
In 2026, the U.S. govt. ordered the restart of the very same pipeline, despite public opposition.
Read more: https://t.co/y1mcWhgb85
U.N. agency report forecasts wide range of record-breaking global temps in the next five years and adds to climate urgency across all regions. Arctic winters are projected to warm 3.5x faster than Earth's average, extreme weather events to increase. https://t.co/NfJOjsMjk7
While Trump has spent years yelling at windmills like a modern-day Quixote, American workers were busy building the future.
He might try to slow us down, but clean energy is too durable to be derailed by one Don’s ego. https://t.co/97StcjtnIB
If you help a turtle across the road, move it in the direction it was already heading. Never turn it around.
It's turtle season. Females are crossing roads right now to reach nesting sites, and they know exactly where they're going. If you turn one around "toward the water" or "back to safety," it will just try to cross again the moment you leave.
If it's safe for you to stop, pick the turtle up by the sides of the shell, keep it low to the ground, and walk it across in the same direction it was facing. Don't relocate it somewhere "better." Turtles have small home ranges they spend their whole lives in, and a relocated turtle will often wander trying to get back, crossing more roads to do it.
One exception: snapping turtles bite and have long necks. For those, slide a car mat under them and drag it, or lift from the very back of the shell near the tail, never the front.
The turtle knows where it's going. Your only job is to get it to the other side faster.
"The recycling center in the town of New Lebanon recently closed due to cuts in the county budget. This will almost certainly sharply decrease the recycling that residents will do, since the alternative county transfer stations are all at some distance from our town.
"There is a solution. Produce less single use plastic and make the producers pay for its disposal. If @CarlHeastieNY, the speaker of the NYS Assembly, would call for a vote on the Plastics Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, the state would save tax dollars while protecting our health and our environment."
🚨🚨BREAKING: Texas community leaders are in Tokyo to file a first-of-a-kind series of coordinated complaints against the Japanese financial institutions that backed Freeport LNG, a dangerous, polluting liquified natural gas (LNG) project near their homes. 🚨🚨
To start the day and the weekend on the journey of life, I wish my beloved and much appreciated fellow inhabitants of planet Earth a fantastic good morning and a blessed day with joy and happiness, respect and kindness. May God bless you.❤️💙💚☘️🌱🌿🌲🌳🍀💚
Let's champion sustainable agriculture 🌱
By embracing regenerative farming, we heal our soil, secure our food, and empower a brighter future for all.
Say NO to slash & burn farming.
Like, comment, repost if you agree! #SaveOurSoil#RegenerativeFarming
As Trump posts AI videos of him assaulting Stephen Colbert, here’s what Colbert was doing:
Dancing with his wife, having fun at the Fired & Festive!” afterparty in NYC.
We're building a world of waste. The Bantar Gebang landfill outside of Jakarta alone stretches across 200 football fields.
It's time to move beyond linear systems to ones that are truly circular in nature: https://t.co/rWRSRcm4T1
#Useless#wasteless#buyless#gocircular
History was made at the UN General Assembly.
A landmark climate resolution was adopted this Wednesday, affirming that protecting our planet from greenhouse gas emissions is not a political choice, but a legal obligation.
Learn more about this landmark resolution:
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