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Coastal GasLink Pipeline politics
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Have a dozen stop-work orders changed anything for CGL?

BC’s Environmental Assessment Office says things have improved. We won’t know until the next big downpour.
Causes
microplastic crisis
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The microplastic crisis is getting exponentially worse

Plastic production is skyrocketing, pushing microplastic pollution to dangerous new levels. Now research shows even the Arctic is increasingly contaminated.
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Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Farming communities in the shadow of Sulawesi’s giant Pomalaa nickel mining area say their fields have been flooded with red water, possibly laterite waste from the mining operations.

Causes
Coastal GasLink sediment spills
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Photos show Coastal GasLink sediment spills into wetlands, rivers

On an Indigenous-led monitoring flight over the Coastal GasLink pipeline, The Narwhal documented worksites overwhelmed by spring melt and numerous environmental infractions including slope failures, flooded worksites and sediment entering wetlands and waterways
Politics
deep-sea mining ocean pollution
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Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining

Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed mining.

Causes
pennsylvania's loyalsock creek sediment pollution
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Hellbender habitat slammed by pollution in Pennsylvania's Loyalsock Creek

Repeated sediment pollution incidents and accusations of destroying habitat for rare hellbenders on a Pennsylvania “river of the year” have brought criticism over natural gas operations in a scenic valley.

Impacts
B.C. flood resilience & low-tech restoration
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When B.C. floods hit her farm, she found solutions in a river

An unlikely group from northwest B.C. is working together to restore the heavily impacted Upper Bulkley River to protect farmland from floods and bring balance back to a disrupted ecosystem.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Paris

The Paris climate goals falter as fossil fuels thrive

pile of garbage

Global treaty to curb plastic pollution faces final negotiations

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
plastic industry’s covert PR greenwashing

Leaked documents expose plastic industry’s covert PR campaign

workplace safety and public health

Opinion: States must step up on workplace safety as federal protections erode