<p>Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.</p><p>Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
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<p>About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. </p><p>New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%. </p><p>But Trump has halted those efforts.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/epa</span><span class="invisible">-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/industry/" rel="tag">#Industry</a> <a href="/tags/pittsburgh/" rel="tag">#Pittsburgh</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>(29 Oct) Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. <a href="https://s.faithcollapsing.com/nk80t" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>s.faithcollapsing.com/nk80t</a> Archive: ia: <a href="https://s.faithcollapsing.com/67mc5" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>s.faithcollapsing.com/67mc5</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> </p>
<p>Wildlife officers make disturbing autopsy discovery after euthanizing sick bear: 'It's a call we wish we never had to make'</p><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wildlife-officers-disturbing-autopsy-discovery-110000647.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wildlife-officers-disturbing-autopsy-discovery-110000647.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wi</span><span class="invisible">ldlife-officers-disturbing-autopsy-discovery-110000647.html</span></a>?</p><p><a href="/tags/stopplasticproduction/" rel="tag">#StopPlasticProduction</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/wildlifegenocide/" rel="tag">#Wildlifegenocide</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a></p>
<p>Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.<br><a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/endangered-orcas-return-to-puget-sound-without-newborn-j64-presumed-dead" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.kuow.org/stories/endangered-orcas-return-to-puget-sound-without-newborn-j64-presumed-dead"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.kuow.org/stories/endangere</span><span class="invisible">d-orcas-return-to-puget-sound-without-newborn-j64-presumed-dead</span></a><br><a href="/tags/kuow/" rel="tag">#KUOW</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/endangeredspecies/" rel="tag">#EndangeredSpecies</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/salmon/" rel="tag">#Salmon</a> <a href="/tags/pugetsound/" rel="tag">#PugetSound</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#Animals</a> <a href="/tags/orcas/" rel="tag">#Orcas</a></p>
<p>1) Why do you love plants and how do you interact with plants in your life (intentionally/background)?</p><p>2) What makes learning about plants/ecology accessible/inaccessible to you (ie compare with birding)?</p><p>3) Do you prefer a formal or informal teaching environment, and why?</p><p>4) What are some subtopics relating to native plants that are of interest to you?</p><p>5) Would you prefer to learn to ID plants with or without phone apps?</p><p>6) How many plants would you be comfortable learning to ID in a 1 hour session?</p><p><a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#Plants</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#Ecology</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#Gardening</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#Conservation</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>
<p>New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.</p><p>A 2024 ProPublica and Capital & Main investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/new</span><span class="invisible">-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/newmexico/" rel="tag">#NewMexico</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a></p>
<p>NEW: Our Reporting Showed <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> Ranks Last in Green Energy Growth. Now the State Is Working to Speed It Up.</p><p>The state’s departing commerce director said there’s added urgency to get the projects done after an Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica investigation showed states like <a href="/tags/iowa/" rel="tag">#Iowa</a> and <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> have made more progress in renewable energy growth.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/washington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/was</span><span class="invisible">hington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a></p>
<p>The Boarman family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.</p><p>But why was this happening? For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-polluted-drinking-water-boarman-family?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-polluted-drinking-water-boarman-family?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-oil-polluted-drinking-water-boarman-family?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#Water</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a></p>
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<p>"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.</p><p>In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."</p><p>✊</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf</span><span class="invisible">4/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalracism/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalRacism</a></p>
<p>"These companies have primarily made their chatbots “smarter” not by writing niftier code but by making them bigger: ramming more data through more powerful computer chips that use more electricity."</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bWD9eABk8EFIwj_d2aNSQBU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bWD9eABk8EFIwj_d2aNSQBU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2</span><span class="invisible">026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bWD9eABk8EFIwj_d2aNSQBU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a></p>
<p>Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.</p><p>We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
<p>Sustainable. <a href="/tags/grickledoodle/" rel="tag">#grickledoodle</a> <a href="/tags/godzilla/" rel="tag">#godzilla</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#gardening</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/kaiju/" rel="tag">#kaiju</a> <a href="/tags/drawing/" rel="tag">#drawing</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a></p>
<p>In a <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> where hunger has become the order of the day among many vulnerable individuals and children, hope lies in the hands of young farmers who have dedicated themselves to make a change in such a community through <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#agriculture</a> by extending their hands on tools to make this happen. Let's together share the joy of having the Empty Stomachs filled and many lives transformed. Support us to buy <a href="/tags/land/" rel="tag">#land</a> and make this dream a reality. </p><p><a href="https://gofund.me/3f38fe9d0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gofund.me/3f38fe9d0</a></p><p># mutualaid<br><a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a> is an authoritarian, surveillance state ruled by a one powerful man. That said, the Chinese Communist Party under Xi’s leadership seems to legit try to do its best for the country and people. There are glaring empire tendencies on the downside - thinking of Tibet, Taiwan and the Uyghurs - but on the upside the government/party has lifted a ton of people out of poverty and propelled the country into global tech, automotive, economic and alternative energy leadership roles. Most recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for mobilizing the whole society to actively participate in afforestation, stressing that a sound ecological environment is shared by all and requires the joint efforts of all. Just sayin… Beats the crap outta paying a billion taxpayer dollars to remove US wind energy installations already underway and approving clear cutting of old-growth forests. <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/domesticpolicy/" rel="tag">#DomesticPolicy</a></p>
<p>Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/methane/" rel="tag">#Methane</a></p>