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Private Profits Over Public Safety In Warehouse Fire

July 18, 2026 West Virginia Bureau, Workers World. Resist! Fires, pollution, Profiteering, West Virginia

Firefighters are fighting a massive fire at a plastics warehouse of Peoples Cartage in Parkersburg, West Virginia, while the surrounding community has been made to shelter in place as the state and federal governments monitor the air for noxious smoke. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey declared a State of Emergency for Wood County as pitch black plumes of smoke were seen across the Mid-Ohio Valley. The specific cause of the fire is reportedly not yet known, but there is strong evidence that Peoples Cartage neglected safety problems.

Pennsylvania’s Petrochemical ‘Renaissance’ Hasn’t Panned Out

July 11, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. Educate! Fossil Fuels, Pennsylvania, pollution, Shell Oil

Over a decade ago, Shell announced it would build a major petrochemical complex on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, lured to the state by historic public incentives amid what was hailed as the coming of a new petrochemical corridor outside the Gulf Coast. At the time, local and state leaders hoped the massive facility, drawing on cheap shale gas drilled nearby to produce the feedstock for plastics, would bring economic growth and thousands of jobs to the Ohio River region in western Pennsylvania. The corridor never materialized. Instead, Beaver County’s economy continues to fall behind, according to a new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) published Wednesday and a June report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

What America Left Behind In Greenland

July 10, 2026 Pat Elder, Military Poisons. Educate! Greenland, health, pollution, US military

President Donald Trump's July 2026 remarks criticizing Denmark's relationship with Greenland provide an unexpected backdrop for this report. Although the President did not specify what he meant by Denmark "not spending money to really help Greenland," his comments invite a broader examination of the responsibilities that accompany the American military presence and strategic interest on the world's largest island. The geopolitical tensions have been extraordinary. Following President Trump's repeated suggestions earlier this year that he might use military force to acquire Greenland, Danish military planners reportedly developed highly classified contingency plans that included destroying key Greenlandic airfields if the United States attempted an invasion, according to the BBC.

Colorado Cut $11.4 Million In Penalties For Oil Firms Submitting Fake Cleanup Data

July 9, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. Educate! Accountability, Big Oil, Colorado, Fossil Fuels, pollution

After a nearly two-year inquiry, Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) approved deals allowing firms owned by its largest oil and gas companies to avoid the majority of assessed penalties for falsified data submitted by their contractors. Collectively, the oil firms stand to pay roughly $2 million, less than 15 percent of the original millions in proposed penalties. ECMC’s lone dissenting commissioner called the fraudulent data a “deep violation of the public trust.” Christiaan van Woudenberg, an Erie, Colorado, resident turned anti-fracking activist who works with community groups like Erie Protectors, likewise criticized the agreements.

New Study: Seafood Industry Giants Failing To Tackle Pollution

July 3, 2026 Brigitte Wear, DeSmog. Educate! Fish Farms, Food Security, pollution, Seafood

The world’s largest seafood and aquaculture firms are failing to combat waste, and fall short on fish welfare, according to a new benchmarking assessment. A first-ever seafood index, which was launched in May by the global investor network FAIRR Initiative, assessed 20 firms — including salmon farmers Mowi and Bakkafrost — on the social, health, and environmental impacts of their operations. The study found that companies – which were headquartered in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Latin America – fared well on social indicators such as worker representation and labour rights, but comparatively poorly on pollution, traceability, antibiotics use, and animal welfare.

To Protect Its Drinking Water, City Has To Appeal To Oil Regulators

June 30, 2026 Nick Bowlin and Al Shaw, Pro Publica. Resist! Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Oklahoma, pollution, Water

Down a dirt road in northwest Oklahoma, only a few hundred yards from where the city of Enid draws its drinking water, a company injects the toxic byproduct of oil production deep underground. That close proximity violates a state rule meant to protect public groundwater supplies from oil field wastewater, which can be saltier than the sea and laden with toxic metals. Injection operations are banned within a half-mile of public water wells unless regulators hold a hearing to ensure that such activity will not pollute the water.

Anti-Uranium Summit Sheds Light On Toxic Industry

June 20, 2026 Sean Summers, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Indigenous Activism, pollution, Radiation, Uranium, Uranium mining

Coconino County, AZ – At the feet of Wii’i Gdwiisa, or Red Butte as it’s called in English, the winds are strong. Just a few miles south of the Grand Canyon’s rim sits the tall sandstone butte surrounded by juniper trees and vast desert lands. A makeshift tarp awning flaps in the gusts while people work to hold the much-appreciated shade structure in place. On a folding table sit a variety of Geiger counters, used to detect radioactive particles. They chime periodically, reporting background radiation detected from nearby objects or carried in the wind.

Republicans Want Cyanide Bombs On Public Lands

June 6, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Biodiversity, Cyanide Bombs, pollution, Public Lands

Trump’s bombing of Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Caribbean boats, and Somalia (Council on Foreign Relations info) has torn to shreds his “political brand” opposing foreign military adventures, promising “no wars” in campaign speech after campaign speech after campaign speech. Now, his administration is taking “bombing” one step further into the wilderness, over hill, over dale, through bush, through briar (Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) right here on U.S. soil. Cyanide bombs are back in style after being banned by the Biden administration.

Colorado Gave $1.3 Billion Carve-Out To Oil Companies

June 3, 2026 Joe Fassler, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Colorado, Fossil Fuels, pollution

When Christiaan van Woudenberg moved to Erie, Colorado in 2007, he never imagined he’d become an anti-fracking activist. He simply thought he was buying his dream home — a four-bedroom with a panoramic mountain view, 30 minutes north of downtown Denver. Then, in 2014, the drilling started. Oil and gas rigs sprang up, some just 800 feet from his bedroom window. The dream turned to nightmare: Loud noises rumbled all night long, and the air stank like exhaust. Neighbors started getting headaches and nosebleeds, and van Woudenberg developed new respiratory issues. He kept his windows shut and worried about his daughters going outside.

Diane Wilson On Hunger Strike, Demands Zero Discharge Of Plastics

April 25, 2026 Rav Mosley, Crossroads Today. Resist! Diane Wilson, Dow Chemical, Hunger Strike, Plastics, pollution, Texas

Seadrift, Texas — Environmental activist Diane Wilson has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month, protesting Dow Chemical over plastic pellets she says are turning up in San Antonio Bay near Seadrift. Wilson, a longtime critic of industrial pollution along the Texas coast, says the small pellets, a raw material used to make plastic products — pose risks to the bay and surrounding communities. “You are destroying your health, your bay system, your whole communities, and it’s very destructive,” Wilson said. “This bay does not belong to Dow … we’re trying to get them to zero discharge the plastic.”

Oil Explosion In Black Town Traces Back To Iran And Venezuela Crises

April 8, 2026 Adam Mahoney, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Environmental racism, health, Iran, Oil and Gas, pollution, Texas, Venezuela

John Beard takes no pleasure in being right. In January, he told Capital B that he feared U.S. military action in Venezuela, which ultimately gave America preferential access to the South American nation’s vast oil reserves, would lead to disaster in southeast Texas. “The chickens have come home to roost,” Beard said over the phone, between fielding calls from his neighbors. “Our exact fears have come true.” On March 23, an explosion at the Valero Port Arthur Refinery shook homes as far as 11 miles away and sent a thick black plume across the predominantly Black city.

It’s Time To Make Polluters Pay For The Climate Crisis

January 30, 2026 Kimberly Ong, NRDC. Resist! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, pollution, State Legislators

This week, people across the country are gathering to demand that the oil and gas industry clean up the mess it made by helping to pay for the costs of climate change. And boy, is there a mess. We’re deep in the middle of a climate crisis—one that is predominantly caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Indeed, it’s hard to find a single person in the United States who has been left unscathed by climate change. Since 2011, 99.5 percent of congressional districts experienced at least one federally declared major disaster due to extreme weather.

ExxonMobil Moves To Reshape Global Climate Accounting

January 26, 2026 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Corporatism, Exxon, pollution

“Pollution is everybody’s business,” Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian affiliate, wrote in a 1970 report, “because essentially all of it results from the activities of men working to satisfy the needs and desires of men.” Fast forward over a half century and Imperial’s old argument is taking a new form. Today, ExxonMobil is seeking to upend how carbon emissions are accounted for — by changing the rules of the game. An ExxonMobil-backed initiative, Carbon Measures, is pushing to reshape how the world does the math on climate change. Their system, outside analysts point out, leaves consumers holding the bag.

Pesticide Industry ‘Hijacked’ Climate Stage At COP30

November 23, 2025 Clare Carlile, DeSmog.com. Educate! Brazil, COP30, Pesticides, pollution

Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic chemicals. Trade groups hosted multiple events to promote a technique known as ‘degraded pasture recovery’, in which land that has been damaged by overgrazing or other forms of poor management is converted to grow soy, sugarcane, corn, or other crops. Brazil says the approach will help reduce pressure on forests by opening up fresh tracts of arable land. The country has set a target to convert 40 million hectares of damaged pasture into production zones for food crops and biofuels over the next decade — an area almost twice the size of the UK.

More Than 300 Lobbyists For Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

November 18, 2025 Rachel Sherrington and Nina Lakhani, DeSmog. Educate! Big Ag, Brazil, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, COP30, pollution

More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s UN climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14 percent over last year’s summit in Baku — and is larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to COP30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation between DeSmog and the Guardian.

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