Archive for the ‘contamination’ Category:

2026-01-13 Nuclear Power’s $1 Trillion Problem – Expensive Decommissioning Can Take Decades

It’s a 15 min. video partly in German without translation. From DW Planet A.

2025-11-15 Fly Ash From Burning Coal Hazardous Toxic Waste Sites In US

Then the fly ash left over from burning millions of tons of coal has polluted everywhere. “Coal ash remains one of our nation’s largest toxic industrial waste streams. For decades, utilities disposed of coal ash — the hazardous substance left after burning coal for energy — by dumping it in unlined ponds and landfills. Earthjustice

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2025-06-22 Fossil Fuel Subsidies – A Closer Look At Tax Breaks And Societal Costs

A quote from an article from EESI – Environmental and Energy Study Group.  Such an enormous amount of money in only a single year! “”There are many kinds of costs associated with fossil fuel use in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution resulting from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. These

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2025-05-23 Groups Sue Over Louisiana’s Ban On Air Monitoring

This is so shameful.  🙁  How could the state legislature, in good faith that they were passing a law “for the good of the people”, ban those people from determining if they were being harmed by the chemicals in the air?  https://floodlightnews.org/environmental-groups-sue-over-louisianas-ban-on-community-air-monitoring/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter

2025-02-20 Greenfield Robotics Autonomous Farm Equipment

Greenfield Robotics makes autonomous farm 6equipment that eliminates most of the harmful herbicides and chemicals. https://www.facebook.com/greenfieldrobotics/videos/615527764469676/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

2025-02-12 Eating From Plastic Can Increase Heart Failure Risk

A peer reviewed study from China said that hot water caused chemicals to leach out of plastic containers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/plastic-food-containers-heart-failure

2025-02-05 Finland Has High Level Nuclear Waste Storage

Tom Scott tells us about this facility deep underground in Finland. https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/videos/623492770090767/?mibextid=9drbnH

2024-12-15 How To Tell If Insulating Oil Has PCBs

A short video on a quick test for PCBs

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2024-08-29 Toxic Tailings From Tar Sands Mining

Short video showing how bad the waste from fossil fuels mining has polluted northern Canada.

2024-08-11 Solar Panels And Hazardous Waste

Most solar panels do not have lead or cadmium – they have to meet the ROHS – restriction on hazardous substances.  If they do, the hazardous wastes are sealed inside.  If panels are broken they are quickly replaced because the solar system is losing money as long as the panels are out of service. “”Based

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