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"could cause more deaths than jobs" 😲
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"could cause more deaths than jobs" 😲
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November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I’ve only seen this fungi a few times in my wanderings, but am fascinated every time. I believe they are Clathrus… #Photography #Fungi #UCBerkeley 📷
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I’ve only seen this fungi a few times in my wanderings, but am fascinated every time. I believe they are Clathrus… #Photography #Fungi #UCBerkeley 📷
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A 2020 oil spill devastated livelihoods and created a groundswell for political change, but the island's faltering search for justice is putting that dream to the test
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
How an Ecological Disaster in Mauritius Awakened a People
A 2020 oil spill devastated livelihoods and created a groundswell for political change, but the island's faltering search for justice is putting that dream to the test
newlinesmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A 2020 oil spill devastated livelihoods and created a groundswell for political change, but the island's faltering search for justice is putting that dream to the test
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
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We apologise for using the 'C' word in Nov, but if you happen to be Christmas shopping (sorry), @chemtrust.bsky.social has written a guide on how to avoid gifts containing harmful chemicals like PFAS. It's sad we live in a world where we need to think about that, but they are in a lot of products.
🗓️ #BlackFriday is approaching, and products on sale may contain #HarmfulChemicals.
🔍 When buying items, look out for eco labels like the #EUecolabel, Blue Angel, and Nordic Swan.
For more advice check out our latest news story ➡️ buff.ly/hYVvCAZ
🔍 When buying items, look out for eco labels like the #EUecolabel, Blue Angel, and Nordic Swan.
For more advice check out our latest news story ➡️ buff.ly/hYVvCAZ
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We apologise for using the 'C' word in Nov, but if you happen to be Christmas shopping (sorry), @chemtrust.bsky.social has written a guide on how to avoid gifts containing harmful chemicals like PFAS. It's sad we live in a world where we need to think about that, but they are in a lot of products.
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The newest ethylene plant in the US has had a few problems with pollution and explosions. Not good for ones health.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The newest ethylene plant in the US has had a few problems with pollution and explosions. Not good for ones health.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
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South of nave (interior) #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
Either a coincidence or a designer who really knows their decorative history. Echoes of Norman Romanesque square-set saltire but with an overlaid circle and a Christian wheel hidden inside #Christogram
Either a coincidence or a designer who really knows their decorative history. Echoes of Norman Romanesque square-set saltire but with an overlaid circle and a Christian wheel hidden inside #Christogram
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
South of nave (interior) #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
Either a coincidence or a designer who really knows their decorative history. Echoes of Norman Romanesque square-set saltire but with an overlaid circle and a Christian wheel hidden inside #Christogram
Either a coincidence or a designer who really knows their decorative history. Echoes of Norman Romanesque square-set saltire but with an overlaid circle and a Christian wheel hidden inside #Christogram
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an urgent improvement in calls for "less regulation and bureaucracy to help the economy", would be to be more specific about which regulations should not be touched, or actually need to be tightened. Otherwise health + environmental standards will be eroded further in the name of "the economy"
Hard to fathom why anyone would oppose restrictions on hormone disrupting chemicals linked to 'hormonal cancers, obesity + diabetes, impacts on the immune + neurological systems + early puberty' in children's toys. Will the UK match the EU + ban these chemicals in toys, teethers + sippy cups?
📮 In October, two letters were sent to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s updated toy regulation.
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
an urgent improvement in calls for "less regulation and bureaucracy to help the economy", would be to be more specific about which regulations should not be touched, or actually need to be tightened. Otherwise health + environmental standards will be eroded further in the name of "the economy"
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Did you know that about 14% of all active ingredients used in pesticides are considered to be PFAS??? 😱
Source: Donley N, et. al. (2024). Forever Pesticides: A Growing Source of PFAS Contamination in the Environment, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 132, Issue 7.
Source: Donley N, et. al. (2024). Forever Pesticides: A Growing Source of PFAS Contamination in the Environment, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 132, Issue 7.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Did you know that about 14% of all active ingredients used in pesticides are considered to be PFAS??? 😱
Source: Donley N, et. al. (2024). Forever Pesticides: A Growing Source of PFAS Contamination in the Environment, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 132, Issue 7.
Source: Donley N, et. al. (2024). Forever Pesticides: A Growing Source of PFAS Contamination in the Environment, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 132, Issue 7.
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PFAS is increasingly common in pesticides + tests have found it's often present on the food we eat - whether from pesticides, fields spread with sewage sludge or from PFAS treated packaging. None of which feels like a great idea.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
PFAS is increasingly common in pesticides + tests have found it's often present on the food we eat - whether from pesticides, fields spread with sewage sludge or from PFAS treated packaging. None of which feels like a great idea.
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Brushstrokes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Brushstrokes.
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We did analysis for this project that showed the claims being made about the emissions from the U.S. gas that would feed this project were far far too low.
Another example of how US gas is being marketed as "low emissions" and "clean" despite the overwhelming evidence that it is not.
Another example of how US gas is being marketed as "low emissions" and "clean" despite the overwhelming evidence that it is not.
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We did analysis for this project that showed the claims being made about the emissions from the U.S. gas that would feed this project were far far too low.
Another example of how US gas is being marketed as "low emissions" and "clean" despite the overwhelming evidence that it is not.
Another example of how US gas is being marketed as "low emissions" and "clean" despite the overwhelming evidence that it is not.
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From extraction of fracked gas, through production, right through to when it winds up in landfill leaching chemicals every part of the plastics life cycle locks in pollution for years to come.
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
From extraction of fracked gas, through production, right through to when it winds up in landfill leaching chemicals every part of the plastics life cycle locks in pollution for years to come.
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The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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As climate change melts ice, stored mercury pollution may be released, contaminating fish + shellfish. Mercury pollution is a feature throughout the life cycle of fossil fuels - a risk during extraction, from abandoned pipelines + from burning oil, gas + coal.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
As climate change melts ice, stored mercury pollution may be released, contaminating fish + shellfish. Mercury pollution is a feature throughout the life cycle of fossil fuels - a risk during extraction, from abandoned pipelines + from burning oil, gas + coal.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hard to fathom why anyone would oppose restrictions on hormone disrupting chemicals linked to 'hormonal cancers, obesity + diabetes, impacts on the immune + neurological systems + early puberty' in children's toys. Will the UK match the EU + ban these chemicals in toys, teethers + sippy cups?
📮 In October, two letters were sent to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s updated toy regulation.
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
Patient organisations, healthcare professionals and scientists urge action on harmful chemicals in toys
Today, a group of 50 patient organisations, healthcare professionals and scientists sent a letter to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s update to its own toy safety regulation. The…
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November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hard to fathom why anyone would oppose restrictions on hormone disrupting chemicals linked to 'hormonal cancers, obesity + diabetes, impacts on the immune + neurological systems + early puberty' in children's toys. Will the UK match the EU + ban these chemicals in toys, teethers + sippy cups?
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Good morning!
Mild temperatures and a smoky start in western North Carolina.
#photography
#Forest
#Clouds
Mild temperatures and a smoky start in western North Carolina.
#photography
#Forest
#Clouds
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Good morning!
Mild temperatures and a smoky start in western North Carolina.
#photography
#Forest
#Clouds
Mild temperatures and a smoky start in western North Carolina.
#photography
#Forest
#Clouds
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#HolidayRobin #BirdOfTheDay #Round
Yes, folks it’s a round Robin. No signature required, though.
#photography #EastCoastKin
Yes, folks it’s a round Robin. No signature required, though.
#photography #EastCoastKin
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#HolidayRobin #BirdOfTheDay #Round
Yes, folks it’s a round Robin. No signature required, though.
#photography #EastCoastKin
Yes, folks it’s a round Robin. No signature required, though.
#photography #EastCoastKin
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Tackling F-gases - vital to address climate change + prevent build up of TFA - a PFAS, harmful to fertility + child development, produced as F-gases degrade, "accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades".
share.google/udyUZXfnCBH9...
share.google/udyUZXfnCBH9...
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tackling F-gases - vital to address climate change + prevent build up of TFA - a PFAS, harmful to fertility + child development, produced as F-gases degrade, "accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades".
share.google/udyUZXfnCBH9...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Truth hard to hear above the chorus of fossil fuel voices at COP
Scientists at #COP30 coming with hard hitting truths in response to the potential roadmaps to phase out #fossilfuels and end #deforestation.
"Forest protection cannot be used as offsets. Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels"
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/s...
"Forest protection cannot be used as offsets. Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels"
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/s...
Scientists statement on state of COP30 Negotiations, November 19, 2025 - Planetary Science Pavilion
We are at a planetary crossroad. We are already facing danger. Suffering for billions of people and rapidly approaching tipping points in the Amazon and the Tropical Coral Reef systems and many others...
planetarysciencepavilion.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Truth hard to hear above the chorus of fossil fuel voices at COP
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Dublin tonight
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Dublin tonight
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Pictures from a few days ago - Scarlet Waxcap found in meadow at Felbrigg NT and a Blue Tit in the reed bed in the water meadow. This Harebell survived the battering winds of last week and looks very healthy and the Kestrel back in its usual perch in the garden.
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Pictures from a few days ago - Scarlet Waxcap found in meadow at Felbrigg NT and a Blue Tit in the reed bed in the water meadow. This Harebell survived the battering winds of last week and looks very healthy and the Kestrel back in its usual perch in the garden.