The Environmental Integrity Project examined the permits and records of 70 U.S. facilities that make plastics or the main chemical ingredients in plastics and found they discharged almost 12 million…
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The use of an oil refinery waste product, petroleum coke, as an ingredient in metals and other products releases large amounts of health-damaging air pollutants, often in disadvantaged communities. The…
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Although the rapidly-growing biofuel industry portrays itself as a clean alternative to petroleum-based fuels, biofuel manufacturing plants release almost as much hazardous air pollution as oil refineries – and more…
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On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court wetlands decision Sackett v. EPA , EIP's report reveals that the states that joined West Virginia’s brief supporting the limits on…
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Billions of taxpayer dollars in the U.S. are helping to pay for dangerous, and often illegal, air pollution from a rapidly-growing plastics industry that disproportionately threatens Black and Latino communities…
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The Environmental Integrity Project examined one central component of carbon capture and sequestration regulation in the U.S.: monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) plans required by the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting…
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Air quality monitors in the greater Houston area measured ozone levels that violated health-based standards on 55 days in 2023, more than any other year since 2011. Scorching temperatures combined…
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Aluminum is a key component in solar panels and wind turbines, more efficient cars and planes, and long-lasting construction materials. As demand for low-carbon products grows, aluminum demand is projected…
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More than 1,100 municipal landfills emitted at least 3.7 million metric tons of methane in 2021, which had the climate-warming impact of 66 million gasoline-powered vehicles driving for a year…
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On April 17, 2013, a fertilizer company storage facility in the small town of West, Texas, holding more than 500,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, caught fire and exploded, flattening more…
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