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Chuck Falco
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Ecologist, dog and music lover.
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Charlie has warned about issues at the Artesia refinery for years.

“The recent explosion underlines the risk communities bear when industry privatizes profits and socializes harm to the community.”

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@wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Community Coalition Calls for Air Monitoring and Transparency After Artesia Refinery Explosion
“If industry pollutes it, the state must monitor it,” the coalition wrote in its letter. “No family should have to wonder if it’s safe for their children to breathe.”
wildearthguardians.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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More evidence for a link between microplastic exposure and heart disease. (An earlier human study found that microplastics in carotid artery plaque was correlated with elevated risk of stroke and heart attack.)

www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/micr...
Microplastics drive plaque buildup in arteries of male mice, study suggests
Exposure to tiny plastic particles that litter the environment may speed plaque buildup in the arteries of male mice, a condition that leads to heart disease, according to a new study.
www.thenewlede.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Last week we were in The Hill. This week its Politico.

Charlie Barrett, a thermographer and field ecologist in the Permian with the environmental group Oilfield Witness...

“You can’t vent or flare in New Mexico, but I see it constantly. Dozens of times a day.”
How an oil exec got picked to lead the DOE renewables office
Audrey Robertson's nomination angered clean-energy advocates, but some see an upside to her experience.
www.eenews.net
March 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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We know that reducing methane emissions is our best lever to slow global warming before 2050. The so-called climate "emergency brake" that we can pull if we choose.

Instead, we are stepping on the accelerator.
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Never Land
January 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM