#smog

[bittertoxicity]

Someone in a server I’m in requested 2 see Mr.Doe in the “smoking jacket” ;-y

[yodaprod]

Los Angeles (1976)

[alteredarchie]

Josie and Melody vs. Air Pollution

[timmurleyart]

Hedorah chemical ooze. 🏭💀🦠🧬💨☠️(mixed media on paper)☢️

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[scavengedluxury]

Southeast view from somewhere around Columbus Circle, New York, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[bridgeport-witches]

Evangeline Gallagher on Instagram

[odinsblog]

Whether you call it climate change or pollution, it’s still a series of policy decisions (deregulation). Deregulation that is disproportionately upheld by greedy corporations, red state Democrats, and is enforced overwhelmingly by Republican and Libertarian controlled legislatures.

(sources and other relevant links beneath the cut)

👉🏿 https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-east-air-quality

👉🏿 https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-david-wallace-wells

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666541345069219840.html

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648986424098652160.html

[dinodanicus]

A male eudimorphodon ventures down to the forest to hunt for suitable nesting material.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today, determining that the agency illegally approved a Colorado rule that allows the oil and gas industry to release unlimited amounts of air pollution from drilling and hydraulic fracturing without a permit.

“Despite the Front Range’s chronic and severe smog problem, Trump’s EPA and Colorado continue to hand the oil and gas industry free passes to pollute,” said Ryan Maher, a Center for Biological Diversity attorney involved in the case. “The court has checked Trump’s rubberstamping of yet another devastating pollution exemption.”

Today’s decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit responded to a January 2023 Center lawsuit challenging the EPA’s approval of a new permitting loophole Colorado created to ignore air pollution from drilling and fracking of oil and gas wells.

The decision requires Trump’s EPA to reconsider its approval, which the court determined was not justified. The court ruled that “the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to address the potential emissions during drilling, fracking, and well completion.”

The Clean Air Act authorizes states to create rules about permitting sources of air pollution but requires the EPA to review and approve the rules to ensure that they adequately limit harmful emissions.

The Denver Metro/North Front Range area has levels of ozone, commonly known as smog, well above the EPA’s science-based standards set to protect public health and Colorado’s natural splendor. Colorado added the loophole into its rules, which are supposed to bring air quality into compliance with the standards.

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[alteredarchie]

Poor Josie....not enjoying the hazy day

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[oddestishottest]

05/31/22