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DoomsdaysCW<p>What will <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> do with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> soil near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> nuclear plant?</p><p>April 8, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)</p><p>"The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> Station after the meltdowns triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.</p><p>Question: What does the term "contaminated soil" that is talked about on the news refer to?</p><p>Answer: It points to soil containing radioactive cesium that was dispersed over a wide area due to the 2011 Fukushima power plant meltdowns. After the accident, to minimize residents' exposure to radiation, soil tainted with radioactive cesium underwent a decontamination process and was removed. Approximately 14 million cubic meters of it was collected in Fukushima Prefecture.</p><p>Q: What has happened to all that soil?</p><p>A: It is currently stored in an "interim storage facility," stretching across the prefectural towns of Futaba and Okuma, adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The facility in this area, which used to house about 2,700 residents before the accident, was developed by the national government through land purchases and leases. The law promises that the contaminated soil stored there will undergo final disposal outside the prefecture sometime before 2045. To reduce the volume for final disposal, the plan is to use about three-quarters of it for purposes such as road embankments.</p><p>Q: Is it safe to use the removed soil?</p><p>A: The Ministry of the Environment has set the standard for reusing soil at "a concentration of radioactive cesium of 8,000 becquerels or less per kilogram." This standard has been deemed appropriate by domestic and international expert organizations. The government intends to handle the soil in accordance with international standards to minimize the radiation impact on construction workers and nearby residents. However, since this is an unprecedented endeavor, some experts are concerned about whether it can be managed over a long period without affecting the surrounding area.</p><p>Q: Can this really be achieved in 20 years?</p><p>A: Even the demonstration project for reuse planned by the Environment Ministry in locations including Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward has not progressed, and it is uncertain whether destinations for reuse or final disposal will be found. Additionally, a national survey revealed that about 80% of people outside Fukushima Prefecture are unaware of this "promise." The government needs to intensify efforts to raise awareness of the contaminated soil issue, especially among people outside Fukushima Prefecture."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://mainichi.jp/articles/20250405/ddm/003/070/086000c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mainichi.jp/articles/20250405/</span><span class="invisible">ddm/003/070/086000c</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaIsntOver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JapanGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapanGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveSoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveSoil</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1970972/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1970972/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Most Auckland beaches unsafe for swimming after heavy rain <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/after" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>after</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/atmospheric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmospheric</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/auckland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auckland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/aucklands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aucklands</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/beaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beaches</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/been" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>been</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/have" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>have</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/heavy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heavy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/most" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>most</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/recent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recent</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/swept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swept</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/swimming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swimming</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/through" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>through</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/unsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsafe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>with</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>High tide for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holtec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holtec</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tritium</span></a> dumped into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeCodBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapeCodBay</span></a> will wash back onto community shores, says a new report</p><p>"The permanently closed Pilgrim nuclear power plant is now owned by Holtec, which wants to dump <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWastewater</span></a> into Cape Cod Bay. While waiting for a permit, so far denied, the company is quietly venting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tritium</span></a> into the air."</p><p>by Linda Pentz Gunter, Posted on December 29, 2024 </p><p>"Holtec, the company that has purchased a number of permanently closed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> reactors in order to decommission them, has encountered yet another obstacle to its '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dilution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dilution</span></a> is the solution to pollution' plans.</p><p>"One of the reactor sites Holtec has taken over is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimNuclearPlant</span></a> in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Cape Cod Bay, which closed permanently in 2019. Holtec’s not-so-little problem there is what do with what started out as at least 1.1 million gallons of radioactively contaminated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> stored at the site. </p><p>"The company first suggested it would simply release the wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, assuring residents and the immediately alarmed fishing community not to worry because (a) the wastewater isn’t dangerous anyway (b) everyone does this all the time at reactor sites and no one has gotten sick so far and (c) it would quickly disperse into the wider ocean. Holtec chose this disposal method for one reason alone: it is the cheapest.</p><p>"The proposal was vigorously fought by citizens, the state, and powerful Massachusetts Democrat, Senator Ed Markey. The state of Massachusetts effectively banned the discharge option, a decision Holtec is contesting. </p><p>"That Final Determination to Deny Application to Modify a Massachusetts Permit to Discharge Pollutants to Surface Waters was issued by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDEP</span></a>] Division of Watershed Management on July 18, 2024. A month later, Holtec launched its appeal to reverse the decision, something that could take months or longer to find its way to court.</p><p>"In the meantime, help has come from a new quarter in the form of an in-depth study by the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WHOI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WHOI</span></a>], also, as it happens, based on the Massachusetts shoreline, near Falmouth.</p><p>"The study — Model-Based Study of Near-Surface Transport in and around Cape Cod Bay, Its Seasonal Variability, and Response to Wind — found that contrary to Holtec’s claims, the wastewater would not immediately disperse into the ocean, but would linger potentially for months, and wash up on the shores of area communities.</p><p>“'We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still low, probability of some of the plume exiting the Bay in spring and summer,' said Woods Hole study leader and physical oceanographer, Irina Rypina.</p><p>"The radioactively contaminated wastewater stored at Pilgrim is contaminated with what Holtec and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have described as 'four gamma emitters — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manganese54" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manganese54</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cobalt60" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cobalt60</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zinc65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zinc65</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cesium137" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium137</span></a> along with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tritium</span></a>, a beta radiation emitter'. </p><p>"While the Woods Hole Study did not look at the health outcomes of releasing the radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay — only at the plume pathway — there are plenty of data that demonstrate the harmful effects of these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioisotopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioisotopes</span></a> on human health, especially women and children.</p><p>"After acquiring the Pilgrim reactor, Holtec’s President and CEO, Kris Singh, assured surrounding communities that, <br>'the decommissioning of Pilgrim will replicate the superb record of public health and safety and environmental protection that typified the plant’s 47 years of operations.'</p><p>But since that acquisition, Markey observed, 'Holtec has fallen woefully short on this commitment.' He noted of the Woods Hole report that 'In light of these recent findings, I urge Holtec to develop a wastewater discharge plan that is informed and guided by scientific fact and community input.'</p><p>"Long-time <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimWatch</span></a> activist, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaryLampert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryLampert</span></a>, welcomed the report’s initial findings and said that 'Holtec dumping Pilgrim’s radiological and chemically <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> wastewater into semi-enclosed CapeCod Bay is harmful to human health, the environment, and our marine economy.' </p><p>"In a handbook explaining Pilgrim’s decommissioning process on the Pilgrim Watch website, the authors note that 'Cape Cod Bay, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlymouthBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlymouthBay</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DuxburyBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuxburyBay</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KingstonBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingstonBay</span></a> are all protected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanSanctuaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceanSanctuaries</span></a>. Cape Cod Bay is a critical habitat for right whales and other endangered or special species. Dumping this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> and chemically contaminated wastewater into them would cause incalculable economic damage and would harm both the environment and public health.'</p><p>"Absent a liquid discharge permit, Holtec’s preferred solution since has been to quietly evaporate the wastewater into the air. It has done this, as revealed during a Pilgrim Nuclear Decommissioning Citizen Advisory Panel meeting, by installing submerged electric heaters to increase the plant’s ambient temperature, ostensibly in order to improve worker comfort and expedite the drying of plant components.</p><p>"But, as Markey noted in an April 30, 2024 letter to Singh, the consequence of installing the heaters in that location 'is an increased rate of wastewater evaporation above the pace at which it occurs naturally.' That 1.1 million gallons is now down to 880,000 gallons remain, according to Holtec’s own reports.</p><p>"As Lampert points out, 'Meteorology studies show 60% of winds blow offshore,' which means at least some of that evaporated wastewater is going to fall into the bay anyway. </p><p>"Under Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, Holtec has four disposal options: liquid discharge, evaporation, storage onsite, and shipping to a licensed facility. None of them are good solutions.</p><p>"In August, Holtec filed an appeal against the state’s ban on liquid radioactive discharges, in part claiming that the decision on whether or not to allow the discharge falls under federal not state jurisdiction.</p><p>"This, argue some opponents of Holtec’s discharge plans, is a stall and a distraction while it quietly gets on with the gradual evaporation of all the wastewater. </p><p>"'They’re using the appeal to buy themselves time,' Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, told radio station WBUR. 'And what they buy themselves, with time, is the ability to continue to induce evaporation of the wastewater, so that ultimately it’s gone, at minimal cost to them.'</p><p>"Lampert agrees. 'Holtec can evaporate all the water to meet its schedule to dismantle the reactor building,' she said.</p><p>"In October, Lampert, along with other citizens representing the fishing, environmental, real estate and medical communities traveled to Boston to meet with staff in Massachusetts Governor Mary Healy’s office to demand that Healy’s administration call a halt to the evaporation.</p><p>"'There are laws on the books already that prohibit <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirbornePollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirbornePollution</span></a>,' Diane Turco of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeDownwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapeDownwinders</span></a> told the local NPR station after the Boston meeting. “And we’re asking our governor to immediately enforce those laws… She’s been very strong about no dumping in the bay. And we see this as a parallel assault on our communities,' Turco said.</p><p>"So far the governor has not taken action."<br> <br><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2024/12/29/high-tide-for-holtec/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2024/12/29/high-tide-for-holtec/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimNuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoRadioactiveDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoRadioactiveDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaterDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaterDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclearInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclearInternational</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Good ol' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KerrMcGee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KerrMcGee</span></a>. You remember them, right? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KarenSilkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarenSilkwood</span></a>'s employer!</p><p>Karen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Silkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silkwood</span></a>'s sudden death unpacked in ABC documentary</p><p>The four-part podcast unearths never-before-heard audio tapes. </p><p>ByDoc Louallen<br>November 14, 2024</p><p>"Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation.</p><p>"The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. She was on her way to meet a New York Times journalist, reportedly to hand over documents she'd secretly been collecting at her job at a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFacility</span></a>. The Oklahoma State Highway Patrol concluded that Silkwood fell asleep at the wheel -- possibly under the influence of prescribed drugs --- drove off the highway, crashed into a ditch, and died.</p><p>"'We’ve never believed it,' Mike Boettcher said of the official narrative. Boettcher and his reporting partner Bob Sands, both veteran Oklahoma journalists, say many in Oklahoma speculate that Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew.</p><p>"Silkwood's story has become widely known, inspiring several books, articles, and a major motion picture.<br>Silkwood worked at a nuclear fuel production plant that manufactured <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> fuel rods to power a new type of nuclear reactor, which was part of a multi-million dollar experiment to enhance <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> energy. When she noticed what she felt were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsafe</span></a> working conditions -- such as leaks, spills and co-workers frequently getting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveMaterial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveMaterial</span></a> -- she spoke up and tried to make improvements.</p><p>"'Karen became nuclear energy's first <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whistleblower</span></a>, though the term whistleblower was just starting to be used,' Boettcher said. 'This was at a time when the idea of someone inside of a big corporation exposing alleged misdeeds was shocking.'</p><p>"Silkwood's allegations, contamination, and untimely death sparked an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, an FBI inquiry, a civil lawsuit, several appeals, a congressional hearing and two appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/karen-silkwoods-sudden-death-unpacked-abc-documentary/story?id=115778837" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/k</span><span class="invisible">aren-silkwoods-sudden-death-unpacked-abc-documentary/story?id=115778837</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoverUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoverUp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhoKilledKarenSilkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoKilledKarenSilkwood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Of course, now we know who was behind <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stuxnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stuxnet</span></a> -- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> -- thanks!</p><p>Why the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StuxnetWorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StuxnetWorm</span></a> is like nothing seen before</p><p>By Paul Marks<br>27 September 2010</p><p>"Stuxnet is the first worm of its type capable of attacking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a> like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerStations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerStations</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectricityGrids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricityGrids</span></a>: those in the know have been expecting it for years. On 26 September, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a>’s state news agency reported that computers at its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bushehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bushehr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a> had been infected.</p><p>Why the fuss over Stuxnet?</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ComputerViruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerViruses</span></a>, worms and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trojans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trojans</span></a> have until now mainly infected PCs or the servers that keep e-businesses running. They may delete key system files or documents, or perhaps prevent website access, but they do not threaten life and limb.</p><p>"The Stuxnet worm is different. It is the first piece of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> so far able to break into the types of computer that control machinery at the heart of industry, allowing an attacker to assume control of critical systems like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pumps</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motors</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alarms</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/valves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>valves</span></a> in an industrial plant.</p><p>"In the worst case scenarios, safety systems could be switched off at a nuclear power plant; fresh water <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> with effluent at a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SewageTreatmentPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SewageTreatmentPlant</span></a>, or the valves in an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> opened, contaminating the land or sea.</p><p>“'Giving an attacker control of industrial systems like a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dam</span></a>, a sewage plant or a power station is extremely unusual and makes this a serious threat with huge real world implications,' says Patrick Fitzgerald, senior threat intelligence officer with Symantec. 'It has changed everything.'</p><p>Why is a different type of worm needed to attack an industrial plant?</p><p>"Industrial machinery is not controlled directly by the kind of computers we all use. Instead, the equipment used in an industrial process is controlled by a separate, dedicated system called a programmable logic controller (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLC</span></a>) which runs supervisory control and data acquisition software (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCADA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCADA</span></a>).</p><p>"Running the SCADA software, the PLC controls the process at hand within strict safety limits, switching motors on and off, say, and emptying vessels, and feeding back data which may safely modify the process without the need for human intervention – the whole point of industrial automation.</p><p>So how does a worm get into the system?</p><p>"It is not easy because they do not run regular PC, Mac or Linux software. Instead, the firms who sell PLCs each have their own programming language – and that has made it tricky for hackers to break it.</p><p>"However there is a way in via the Windows PC that oversees the PLC’s operations. Stuxnet exploited four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows to give a remote hacker the ability to inject malicious code into a market-leading PLC made by German electronics conglomerate Siemens.</p><p>"That’s possible because PLCs are not well-defended devices. They operate for many years in situ and electronic access to them is granted via well-known passwords that are rarely changed. Even when Stuxnet was identified, Siemens opposed password changes on the grounds that it could cause chaos as older systems tried to communicate using old passwords.</p><p>Where did the initial Stuxnet infection come from?</p><p>"It appears to have first arrived in Iran on a simple <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USBMemoryStick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USBMemoryStick</span></a>, says Fitzgerald. His team in Dublin, Ireland has been analysing Stuxnet since it was first identified by a security team in Belarus in June.</p><p>"The first of the four Windows vulnerabilities allowed executable code on a USB stick to spread to a PC. The USB may have been given to an Iranian plant operative – or simply left somewhere for an inquisitive person to insert into their terminal.</p><p>"Says Fitzgerald: 'It then spreads from machine to machine on the network, exploiting a second vulnerability to do so, and reports back to the attacker on the internet when it finds a PC that’s running Siemens SCADA software. The attacker can then download a diagram of the industrial system set-up the SCADA controls.'</p><p>"The next two Windows vulnerabilities lets the worm escalate its privilege levels to allow the attacker to inject Siemens PLC format computer code – written in a language called STL – into the PLC. It’s that code which is capable of performing the skulduggery: perhaps turning off alarms, or resetting safe temperature levels.</p><p>How do we know where Stuxnet is active?</p><p>"Symantec monitored communications with the two internet domains that the worm swaps data with. By geotagging the IP addresses of Stuxnet-infected computers in communication with the attacker, Fitzgerald’s team found that 58.8 per cent of infections were in Iran, 18.2 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a>, 8.3 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, 2.6 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Azerbaijan</span></a> and 1.6 per cent in the US.</p><p>Who is behind the worm? </p><p>"No one knows. It is however very professionally written, requiring what Fitzgerald calls 'a broad spectrum of skills' to exploit four new vulnerabilities and develop their own SCADA/PLC set-up to test it on.</p><p>"This has some commentators suggesting that a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationState</span></a> with plenty of technical resources may have been behind Stuxnet. But computer crime is a billion dollar business so such an effort is not beyond extortionists.</p><p>"Stuxnet comprises a 600-kilobyte file and it has not yet been fully analysed."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19504-why-the-stuxnet-worm-is-like-nothing-seen-before/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/dn195</span><span class="invisible">04-why-the-stuxnet-worm-is-like-nothing-seen-before/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StuxnetVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StuxnetVirus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MalwareAttack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalwareAttack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cyberattack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyberattack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CyberWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberWarfare</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[PDF] National Association of Marine Laboratories<br>Position Paper</p><p>Scientific opposition to Japan’s planned release of over 1.3 million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiIchi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiIchi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a> <br> disaster into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a>. </p><p>December 2022</p><p>“The National Association of Marine Laboratories (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAML</span></a>), an organization of more than<br>100 member laboratories, opposes Japan’s plans to begin releasing over 1.3 million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean commencing in 2023. This opposition is based on the fact that there is a lack of adequate and accurate scientific data supporting Japan’s assertion of safety.</p><p>"Furthermore, there is an abundance of data demonstrating serious concerns about releasing radioactively contaminated water.</p><p>“The Pacific Ocean is the largest continuous body of water on our planet, containing the greatest biomass of organisms of ecological, economic, and cultural value, including 70 percent of the world’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fisheries</span></a>. The health of all the world’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceanEcosystems</span></a> is in documented decline due<br>to a variety of stressors, including climate change, over-exploitation of resources, and pollution.<br> <br>"The proposed release of this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> water is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transboundary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transboundary</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transgenerational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenerational</span></a> issue of concern for the health of marine ecosystems and those whose lives and livelihoods depend on them. We are concerned about the absence of critical data on the radionuclide content of each tank, the Advanced Liquid Processing System, which is used to remove radionuclides, and the assumption that upon the release of the contaminated wastewater,<br>‘dilution is the solution to pollution.’</p><p>“The underlying rationale of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dilution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dilution</span></a> ignores the reality of biological processes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OrganicBinding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganicBinding</span></a>,<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bioaccumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioaccumulation</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bioconcentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioconcentration</span></a>, as well as accumulation in local seafloor sediments. Many of the radionuclides contained in the accumulated waste cooling water have half-lives ranging from decades to centuries, and their deleterious effects range from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DNADamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNADamage</span></a> and<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cellular</span></a> stress to elevated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> risks in people who eat affected marine organisms, such as clams, oysters, crabs, lobster, shrimp, and fish. </p><p>"Additionally, the effectiveness of the Advanced Liquid Processing System in almost completely removing the over 60 different <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radionuclides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radionuclides</span></a> present in the affected wastewater—some of which have an affinity to target specific tissues, glands, organs, and metabolic pathways in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LivingOrganisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LivingOrganisms</span></a>, including people—remains a<br>serious concern due to the absence of critical data.</p><p>"The supporting data provided by the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JapaneseGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseGovernment</span></a> are insufficient and, in some cases, incorrect, with flaws in sampling protocols, statistical design, sample analyses, and assumptions, which in turn lead to flaws in the<br>conclusion of safety and prevent a more thorough evaluation of better alternative approaches to disposal. A full range of approaches to addressing the problem of safely containing, storing, and disposing of the radioactive waste have not been adequately explored, and alternatives to ocean dumping should be examined in greater detail and with extensive scientific rigor.</p><p>“NAML calls on the Government of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> and International Atomic Energy Agency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAEA</span></a>) scientists to more fully and adequately consider the options recommended by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificIslandsForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificIslandsForum</span></a>’s Expert Panel. We believe public policy decisions, regulations, and actions must keep pace with and make use of relevant advancements in our scientific understanding of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> and human health. In this case, we believe policy makers have not fully availed themselves of the available science and should do so before making any final decisions on releasing this contaminated water into the Pacific. NAML members are unified in our concern about use of the oceans as a dumping ground for radioactively contaminated water and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollutants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollutants</span></a> because such actions can negatively affect the long-term health and sustainability of<br>our planet.</p><p>“We urge the Government of Japan to stop pursuing their planned and precedent-setting release of the radioactively contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean and to work with the broader scientific community to pursue other approaches [like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClosedLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedLoop</span></a> systems or binding radionuclides in concerete] that protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceanLife</span></a>; human health; and<br>those communities who depend on ecologically, economically, and culturally valuable marine<br>resources. “</p><p>Adopted by the NAML Board of Directors, December 12, 2022</p><p><a href="https://www.naml.org/policy/documents/2022-12-12%20Position%20Paper,%20Release%20of%20Radioactively%20Contaminated%20Water%20into%20the%20Ocean.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">naml.org/policy/documents/2022</span><span class="invisible">-12-12%20Position%20Paper,%20Release%20of%20Radioactively%20Contaminated%20Water%20into%20the%20Ocean.pdf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEAHides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAEAHides</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaIsntOver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DataFalsification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataFalsification</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ALPSSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ALPSSystem</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'This is our best option:' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> farmers turn to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarEnergy</span></a> due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> fields</p><p>Story by Brad Rogers<br>7/25/2024</p><p>ARUNDEL (WGME) – "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a>, also known as forever chemicals, have been nothing short of disastrous for hundreds of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mainefarmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mainefarmers</span></a>.</p><p>"It's ruined their land, made their cattle, milk and eggs unsafe to eat and left many farmers with serious health problems.</p><p>"'This farm has been in our family since 1914,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FredStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FredStone</span></a>, whose <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arundel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arundel</span></a> farm was contaminated with PFAS, said.</p><p>"Stone was a third-generation dairy farmer in Arundel until forever chemicals were discovered in his fields, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WellWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WellWater</span></a>, cows and milk.</p><p>"The pollution came from spreading <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sludge</span></a> on his farm after the state told him it was safe.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDEP</span></a> has identified more than 500 sites where sludge was applied to farmland as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fertilizer</span></a>.</p><p>"In 2017, Stone was the first farmer in the state to have his dairy farm and his pasture shut down due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAScontamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAScontamination</span></a>.</p><p>"To make up for it, the state offered to buy his farm, but he refused to walk away.</p><p>"'We’re not in the farm selling or land selling business,' Stone said. 'Given what options we had left, that brought us to the solar thing.'</p><p>"He's been working with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaldenRenewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaldenRenewables</span></a> to build a solar array on 100 acres of his contaminated farm.</p><p>"'It's their best alternative, but for some of these landowners, it's hard to kind of accept the change that they're facing,' Dale Knapp of Walden Renewables said. 'This is an injection of revenue that they desperately need.'</p><p>"This week, the Maine Public Utilities Commission [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePUC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MainePUC</span></a>] approved new rules, paving the way for solar development on PFAS-polluted farms.</p><p>"'The Act provides that the commission must give a primary preference to projects that are located on contaminated lands,' Carrie Gilbert of the Maine PUC Commission said.</p><p>"'This is our best option,' Stone said. 'So reluctantly, very reluctantly I guess, that’s what we ended up having to do.'</p><p>"Stone plans to sign a 30-year lease for the solar array.</p><p>"After that, his farm may still be contaminated with forever chemicals, but 30 years is a long time for someone to come up with a solution.</p><p>"'That might mean that generational farm just goes on pause,' Knapp said. 'And the next generation may have the opportunity to return it to being a family farm someday.'</p><p>"'I’m very bitter,' Stone said. 'This is not the way we wanted to see this go. Yeah, I would love to see it continue on as a farm of some kind but damn the state of Maine for putting me in this position.'"</p><p><a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/this-is-our-best-option-maine-farmers-turn-to-solar-energy-due-to-contaminated-fields-pfas-forever-chemical-dep-sludge-milk-cows-array" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wgme.com/news/local/this-is-ou</span><span class="invisible">r-best-option-maine-farmers-turn-to-solar-energy-due-to-contaminated-fields-pfas-forever-chemical-dep-sludge-milk-cows-array</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ContaminatedFarmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContaminatedFarmland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reuse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFOA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFOS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFASContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFASPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PTFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PTFE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chemicals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenXChemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenXChemicals</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Sites with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> material more vulnerable as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> increases <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfire</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a> risks</p><p> By TAMMY WEBBER<br>Updated 1:04 AM EDT, May 22, 2024</p><p>"As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> burned toward the nation’s primary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.</p><p>"When the fires showed no sign of slowing, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pantex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pantex</span></a> Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with bulldozers to dig trenches and enlarge fire breaks for the sprawling complex where nuclear weapons are assembled and disassembled and dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> pits — hollow spheres that trigger nuclear warheads and bombs — are stored."</p><p>[...] </p><p>"Dozens of active and idle laboratories and manufacturing and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> facilities across the nation that use, store or are contaminated with radioactive material are increasingly vulnerable to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a>. Many also perform critical energy and defense research and manufacturing that could be disrupted or crippled by fires, floods and other disasters.</p><p>"There’s the 40-square-mile <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> National Laboratory in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>, where a 2000 wildfire burned to within a half mile (0.8 kilometers) of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a> site. The heavily polluted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SantaSusana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SantaSusana</span></a> Field Laboratory [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SSFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSFL</span></a>] in Southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>, where a 2018 wildfire burned 80% of the site, narrowly missing an area <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> by a 1959 partial <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearMeltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearMeltdown</span></a>. And the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a>-contaminated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanford</span></a> nuclear site in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a>, where the U.S. manufactured <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBombs</span></a>.</p><p>"'I think we’re still early in recognizing climate change and ... how to deal with these extreme weather events,' said Paul Walker, program director at the environmental organization Green Cross International and a former staff member of the House Armed Services Committee. 'I think it’s too early to assume that we’ve got all the worst-case scenarios resolved ... (because) what might have been safe 25 years ago probably is no longer safe.”</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-flood-climate-change-nuclear-radioactive-sites-72bf711fe931a051709e44199c656267" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wildfire-fl</span><span class="invisible">ood-climate-change-nuclear-radioactive-sites-72bf711fe931a051709e44199c656267</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FutureGenerations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a></p>
SubtleBlade ⚔️<p>Former <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAF</span></a> base to house <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AsylumSeekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsylumSeekers</span></a> is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a>, government letters say</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RAFScampton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAFScampton</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lincolnshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lincolnshire</span></a> is one of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a>’s three main accommodation sites, with first arrivals due within weeks</p><p>UK military base due to accommodate up to 2,000 asylum seekers under controversial plans has been found to be contaminated with ground gases and unexploded ordnance, according to government documents.<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/former-raf-base-to-house-asylum-seekers-is-contaminated-government-letters-say-scampton-lincolnshire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/01/former-raf-base-to-house-asylum-seekers-is-contaminated-government-letters-say-scampton-lincolnshire</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryPoliciesInAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToryPoliciesInAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryInhumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToryInhumanity</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeteButtigieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeteButtigieg</span></a> forced to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/explain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>explain</span></a> that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a> is <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/poisonous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poisonous</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/obtuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obtuse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Drinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> can <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damage</span></a> people's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/brains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brains</span></a>, but <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kansas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kansas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AttorneyGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AttorneyGeneral</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KrisKobach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KrisKobach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/opposes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opposes</span></a> a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plan</span></a> to remove <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/waterpipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waterpipes</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kansas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kansas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePartyOfHate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/pete-buttigieg-forced-to-explain-that-lead-is-poisonous-to-obtuse-republican/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/pete-b</span><span class="invisible">uttigieg-forced-to-explain-that-lead-is-poisonous-to-obtuse-republican/</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Forever chemicals reach extraordinary levels in wildlife at Holloman Air Force Base<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-02-chemicals-extraordinary-wildlife-holloman-air.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-02-chemical</span><span class="invisible">s-extraordinary-wildlife-holloman-air.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForeverChemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeverChemicals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extraordinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extraordinary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HollomanAFB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HollomanAFB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wetlands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>26% of children had levels above those associated with adverse <a href="https://mas.to/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> impacts. In the Colombian Amazon, 24% of study participants in Indigenous communities of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Putumayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putumayo</span></a> region self-reported symptoms of mercury poisoning, 84% had mercury levels deemed unsafe for pregnant women, these levels were associated with areas in which “on boat” mercury mining occurred and their <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> supply, an important source of nutrition, was <a href="https://mas.to/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a>.</p><p>14/18</p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00244-016-0285-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s00244-016-0285-5</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>How Soaring E-Waste Pollution Is Putting Lives at Risk</p><p>by April Miller<br>Mar 3rd 2022</p><p>The Growing Amount of E Waste Pollution</p><p>"The proper disposal of electronics is a heated topic in the minds of those looking to live more sustainably and reduce their carbon footprint. As more devices come out each year, it only adds to the amount of e-waste generated. Consider how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Huawei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Huawei</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Samsung</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> and other companies release several new phone models annually. Older models then become <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/obsolete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsolete</span></a> and must be disposed of properly.</p><p>"Statista reports that the amount of e-waste generated worldwide was around 54 million metric tons in 2019. Due to increased spending power and the wide availability of electronics, e-waste is becoming the fastest-growing waste stream worldwide. It’s estimated that generation will increase by 30% by 2030. </p><p>"These figures make sense, considering how common it is for people to throw away small electronic devices along with their other trash. However, most are not aware of opportunities to recycle electronics, what environmental impact they’re making by throwing away e-waste or how much cash they can earn by selling it.</p><p>How E Waste Harms the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> and Our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a></p><p>"Why is e-waste becoming a more prevalent issue worldwide? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicWaste</span></a> poses unique ecological concerns. Most e-waste contains <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HazardousChemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HazardousChemicals</span></a>, and the manufacturing processes may also harm the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a>.</p><p>"When e-waste ends up in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landfill</span></a>, the surrounding <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soil</span></a> can become <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> substances such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mercury</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cadmium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadmium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beryllium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beryllium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a>. These chemicals enter the soil, waterways and air, leading to polluted environments and negatively impacting human and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> life.</p><p>"Consider people who use natural wells or the animals who rely on bodies of water. They could be exposed to toxic chemicals that can impact their health.</p><p>"It’s also important to note that when high volumes of e-waste enter landfills, device manufacturers must mine more materials to build new devices. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Phones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phones</span></a> and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> contain small amounts of valuable metals like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/silver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silver</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palladium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palladium</span></a>, among other critical components. These materials are becoming harder to mine, especially with the increased demand for more electronic devices.</p><p>How E Waste Contributes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Air" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Air</span></a> Pollution</p><p>One journal from Environmental Research Letters reported that researchers took air samples from a large e-waste disposal site in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> and found that the products in these landfills harmed human <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lung</span></a> cells.</p><p>"According to the World Health Organization (WHO), these are some adverse health effects caused by exposure to e-waste:</p><p>- Negative birth outcomes for expecting mothers, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stillbirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stillbirth</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/premature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>premature</span></a> birth<br>- Increased rates of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> in young children<br>- Changes in lung function<br>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> damage<br>- Respiratory issues<br>- Impaired thyroid function<br>- Increased risk of chronic diseases like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cardiovascular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cardiovascular</span></a> disease</p><p>"Additionally, the WHO reports that appropriate collection and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recycling</span></a> of e-waste can help protect the environment and human health.</p><p>"Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP) found that 17.4% of e-waste that was collected appropriately prevented as much as 15 million tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted into the atmosphere. High levels of carbon dioxide entering the environment and therefore contributing to global warming make it clear that e-waste is a much larger issue than some believe it to be. It may seem easy to toss away old electronics in the trash, but doing so negatively affects the environment and can harm human health.</p><p>Recycling Electronics to Benefit Humans and the Environment</p><p>"More state and federal action is needed to reduce the negative impact e-waste has on humans and the environment. So far, around 25 US states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation to establish an e-waste recycling programme. Additionally, several manufacturers offer some type of electronic return initiative, with some hosting or sponsoring recycling events for consumers. </p><p>"Many manufacturers have adopted more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainable</span></a> business practices to prevent outdated devices from entering landfills. However, this can be challenging, considering how often users want to upgrade to the latest technology due to new features and designs. </p><p>Republicans and Democrats are pursuing laws that would make it easier for consumers to repair their devices, from vehicles to refrigerators to smartphones. This movement is being coined as the Right to Repair movement. Manufacturers often make it difficult for consumers to fix a wide range of products by limiting the availability of parts or limiting who can perform repairs. </p><p>The goal of the movement is to prohibit manufacturers from taking these measures. This can directly reduce the amount of e-waste entering landfills in the first place. Consumers would then be able to repair devices themselves, save money and avoid tossing obsolete products in the trash. </p><p>E-waste is a growing problem worldwide, and more emphasis should be put on the importance of recycling electronics. The benefits of recycling far outweigh the drawbacks. Governments, consumers and manufacturers need to find viable solutions to this prevalent issue. Whether it’s contaminated soil entering waterways or toxic chemicals released into the atmosphere, more work needs to be done to mitigate the negative effects e-waste causes."</p><p><a href="https://earth.org/e-waste-pollution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">earth.org/e-waste-pollution/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupportLegacyProducts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupportLegacyProducts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consumerism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crapitalism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlannedObsolescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlannedObsolescence</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landfills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SoilIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoilIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepairReuseRecycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepairReuseRecycle</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consumerism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anticonsumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anticonsumerism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalPollution</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Landside <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tritium</span></a> leakage over through years from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> nuclear plant and relationship between countermeasures and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> water</p><p>by Katsumi Shozugawa, et al.<br>Published: 16 November 2020</p><p>"There has been tritium groundwater leakage to the land side of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> Dai-ichi nuclear power plants since 2013. Groundwater was continuously collected from the end of 2013 to 2019, with an average tritium concentration of approximately 20 Bq/L. Based on tritium data published by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) (17,000 points), the postulated source of the leakage was (1) leaks from a contaminated water tank that occurred from 2013 to 2014, or (2) a leak of tritium that had spread widely over an impermeable layer under the site. Based on our results, sea side and land side tritium leakage monitoring systems should be strengthened."</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76964-9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41598-020</span><span class="invisible">-76964-9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeadFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeadFish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> Power Plant starts 3rd round of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> release, potentially impacting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seafood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seafood</span></a> quality in U.S.</p><p>By Belle Lewis - November 14, 2023</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDachii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDachii</span></a> nuclear plant started its third release of nuclear wastewater on Nov. 2 as scientists warn that seafood products from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a> could be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> </p><p>"Although the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the 30-year water release plan, scientists and civilians in nations bordering the Pacific Ocean have questioned the safety of the plan, especially as it relates to seafood.</p><p>"In a press release approving of the plan, the IAEA stated, 'the discharges of the treated water would have a negligible radiological impact to people and the environment.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulDorfman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulDorfman</span></a>, member of the Irish Government Environmental Protection Agency Radiation Protection Advisory Committee and chair of Nuclear Consulting Group, explained that some scientists have questioned IAEA’s approval of the water release.</p><p>"'I and others are concerned by IAEA’s attitude,' Dorfman said. 'Normally even low levels of radioactive pollution will find its way into local seafood, one way or another.'</p><p>"In 2020, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> exported 332,926 kilograms of frozen scallops to the U.S. Japan exports many fish products to the U.S.</p><p>"Samantha Valeriano, a psychology student from Hawaii, said she eats seafood about once a week. She does not often think about where her food comes from but wants to be more cautious following the nuclear water release.</p><p>"'I think I would be a little more cautious of what I ate, checking labels a little bit more,' Valeriano said. 'I would be conscious of what I ate and where it came from.'</p><p>"As the People’s Republic of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> has imposed bans of Japanese fish exports, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> has supported the Japanese market by increasing fish purchases.</p><p>"In a press release, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> Embassy and Consulate in Japan explained that military bases in Japan will carry Japanese seafood as a way to buoy up seafood markets and undermine the PRC’s ban. </p><p>"'United States elected representatives and senior government officials have stood in solidarity with Japan during this baseless ban,' the statement said. 'Another step to help provide additional sales to counter the ban was to start selling Japanese seafood at the U.S. military facilities in Japan, both through the commissaries and mess halls.'</p><p>"According to the statement, government officials like former speaker <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KevinMcCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinMcCarthy</span></a> ate seafood from Japan as a testament to Japan’s safety standards.<br>However, other U.S. agencies, like the National Association of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLaboratories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLaboratories</span></a> question whether accurate research was conducted by the IAEA and Japanese Government to determine safety of seafood products.</p><p>"They explain that the lack of data on potential health impacts is a cause for serious concern.</p><p>"'Many of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radionuclides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radionuclides</span></a> contained in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/accumulated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accumulated</span></a> waste cooling water have half-lives ranging from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/decades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decades</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/centuries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centuries</span></a>, and their deleterious effects range from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DNADamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNADamage</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cellular</span></a> stress to elevated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> risks in people who eat affected marine organisms, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/clams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clams</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oysters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oysters</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crabs</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lobster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lobster</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/shrimp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrimp</span></a> and fish,' the statement reads. [Not to mention all the critters that feed off them! Bioaccumulation works up the food chain!]</p><p>"Eve Nagareda, medical laboratory science major from Hawaii, shared she wants to avoid seafood from dumping grounds even if levels are considered safe.</p><p>"'I think I would try to go as far as possible from it,' Nagareda said.</p><p>"Kylee Wasano, pre-communications disorders student from Oahu, agreed. She explained she feels that she might already be consuming contaminated seafood.</p><p>"'I feel like I already am eating that, and I just don’t know,' Wasano said. 'Anything that could expose you to (radiation) you should be considerate about.'</p><p>"As organizations weigh safety concerns, scientists turn to the water release process to determine potential effects."</p><p><a href="https://universe.byu.edu/2023/11/14/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-starts-third-round-of-wastewater-release-potentially-impacting-seafood-quality-in-u-s/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">universe.byu.edu/2023/11/14/fu</span><span class="invisible">kushima-nuclear-power-plant-starts-third-round-of-wastewater-release-potentially-impacting-seafood-quality-in-u-s/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hormesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hormesis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bioaccumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bioaccumulation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘Extremely toxic chemical’ found in many products may be banned by EPA. What is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TCE</span></a>?</p><p>Brendan Rascius<br>Tue, October 24, 2023 </p><p>"The Environmental Protection Agency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>) proposed a ban on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trichloroethylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trichloroethylene</span></a> (TCE), a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>-causing chemical found in consumer and industrial products.</p><p>"The proposed near-total ban — part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> administration’s 'moonshot' initiative to eradicate cancer — would take effect next year, following a period for public comment, according to an Oct. 23 EPA news release.</p><p>"'The science is loud and clear on TCE,' EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe said in the release. 'It is a dangerous toxic chemical and proposing to ban it will protect families, workers, and communities.'</p><p>"TCE is a colorless, liquid chemical compound that is manufactured primarily as a cleaning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solvent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solvent</span></a>, according to the National Cancer Institute.</p><p>"It’s typically not found in products marketed to consumers, but among the household products it is used in are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleaningPipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleaningPipes</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaintRemovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaintRemovers</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Carpet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carpet</span></a> Cleaners, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToolCleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToolCleaners</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SprayAdhesives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SprayAdhesives</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrakeCleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrakeCleaners</span></a>, officials said.</p><p>"Industrially, it’s used to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/degrease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degrease</span></a> metal materials found in aircraft and as a refrigerant. It’s also employed in the manufacturing of battery separators found in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectricVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricVehicles</span></a>.</p><p>"The chemical compound is 'extremely toxic' and has been linked to adverse health effects, the EPA says.</p><p>"The agency has found that TCE causes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonHodgkinsLymphoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonHodgkinsLymphoma</span></a> and liver and kidney <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>, officials said. It also damages the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmuneSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmuneSystem</span></a>, the central nervous system, reproductive organs and puts fetal development at risk.</p><p>"'These risks are present even at very small concentrations of TCE,' officials said.</p><p>"'TCE is also associated with Parkinson’s disease and possibly other neurodegenerative diseases,' Briana De Miranda, a professor specializing in toxicology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told McClatchy News.</p><p>"Exposure to the chemical can occur in a number of ways, the most common of which is via inhalation, De Miranda said.</p><p>"'If people work with TCE they may inhale it through its vapor phase or off gassing of the liquid,' De Miranda said. 'If people live or work where it contaminates the soil or ground water, they could inhale TCE via vapor intrusion into buildings.'</p><p>"It can also be ingested orally, including through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> drinking water, and through the skin, though this is less common, De Miranda said.</p><p>"Exposure often occurs at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Superfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Superfund</span></a> sites, which are swaths of land across the country that are designated as contaminated by the EPA. These include manufacturing centers, processing plants, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landfills</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mines</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/extremely-toxic-chemical-found-many-164645595.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.yahoo.com/extremely-toxic</span><span class="invisible">-chemical-found-many-164645595.html</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>The Cleanup of Seattle’s Only River Could Cost <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taxpayers</span></a> $1 Billion. </p><p>Talks Over Who Will Pay Most Are Secret.<br>==</p><p>The company once described the Duwamish, one of the country’s most <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> waterways, as “a natural collector” for its wastes. </p><p>The Port of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a> and Boeing accuse each other of failing to pay their fair shares for the cleanup.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CleanWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleanWater</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rivers</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/cleanup-cost-seattle-duwamish-boeing-taxpayers?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/cleanup</span><span class="invisible">-cost-seattle-duwamish-boeing-taxpayers?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>TEPCO Begins Dumping Contaminated Water</p><p>August 24, 2023</p><p>"TEPCO began dumping contaminated water at 1pm Thursday (Japan time). International opposition and outcry have not been resolved. We document that along with the scope of the contamination here. While TEPCO has insisted the water only contains Tritium that is untrue. The long list of other contaminants can be found here [link in comments]."</p><p><a href="https://simplyinfo.org/2023/08/tepco-begins-dumping-contaminated-water/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">simplyinfo.org/2023/08/tepco-b</span><span class="invisible">egins-dumping-contaminated-water/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumping</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pacific</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>release</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tritium</span></a>,, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a></p>
Al Jazeera (unofficial)People took to the streets in Japan to voice their anger following their government’s decision to start the release of treated radioactive water from the Fuk...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Z31Mu5L7I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Japan to start release of nuclear-contaminated Fukushima water | Al Jazeera Newsfeed</a>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Hacker group attacks <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> websites over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> water release plan</p><p>August 18, 2023</p><p>"International hacker group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anonymous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anonymous</span></a> has launched cyberattacks against nuclear power-linked groups in Japan in protest at the planned release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, a Japanese IT security firm said.</p><p>"Anonymous has been intensifying its cyber offensives since last month, shortly after the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAEA</span></a> said in its final report that the planned discharge would comply with global safety standards, NTT Security Japan said.</p><p>"'Vigilance is needed, as the attacks could further escalate after the discharge,' a representative of the Tokyo-based firm said.</p><p>"The organizations targeted by the international hacktivist group are the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan Atomic Power Co and the Atomic Energy Society of Japan.</p><p>"Anonymous have carried out distributed denial-of-service, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDoS</span></a> attacks, in which networks are overwhelmed by hackers who unleash a flood of data from multiple sources over a short period, with the assault being led by a group based in Italy.</p><p>"Activities by a group based in Vietnam have also been confirmed, NTT Security said.</p><p>"The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said its website saw about 100 times more than its usual traffic, but users could continue browsing the site as it took countermeasures.</p><p>"According to NTT Security, Anonymous released a 'target list' of its attacks after the Japanese government formally decided in 2021 to release treated water from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> nuclear power plant.</p><p>"In addition to the three nuclear power-related organizations, TEPCO, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Liberal Democratic Party were on the list, NTT Security said.</p><p>"A member of Anonymous told Kyodo News recently that the Japanese government's policy to release treated water lacks transparency as citizens were not able to participate in its decision-making process.</p><p>"'We must put an end to the senseless act of making the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sea</span></a> a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumping</span></a> ground for economic benefit,' the member said.</p><p>"Massive amounts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> water have been generated in the process of cooling melted reactor fuel after the Fukushima plant was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.</p><p>"The water has been kept in tanks after going through the advanced liquid processing system that removes most radionuclides except tritium [AND 62 OTHER RADIONUCLIDES], but the storage vessels are nearing capacity. Tritium is known to be less harmful than other radioactive materials, such as cesium and strontium.</p><p>"Local fishermen and some neighboring countries remain opposed to the plan, with China introducing blanket radiation testing on Japanese seafood."</p><p><a href="https://japantoday.com/category/crime/hacker-group-attacks-japan-nuclear-websites-over-fukushima-water-plan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">japantoday.com/category/crime/</span><span class="invisible">hacker-group-attacks-japan-nuclear-websites-over-fukushima-water-plan</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpTEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpTEPCO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpFukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpFukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JGov</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hactivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hactivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaWater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nucleare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nucleare</span></a></p>