"Less mentioned has been the pollution from the scores of gas-burning plants that will power these data centers....Nationwide, at least 82 gas-burning power plants are being built or have been proposed to power data centers" as per @envirointegrity.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...

Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)

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Concerned about artificial turf? Find out what the experts are saying. Dr. Sarah Evans from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai explains the latest research on health & environmental impacts of turf in this new Science Explainer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCZ...

Understanding Artificial Turf Concerns in 13 minutes

YouTube video by Collaborative for Health & Environment

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A data-center boom in Pennsylvania will likely drive more fracking. Advocates say the state should mandate more distance between natural-gas development and homes, schools, hospitals and bodies of water.

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections. - Inside Climate News

As demand for gas rises, environmental groups say that wider buffer zones are needed around drilling sites. The industry argues that would impede production.

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For decades, the residents of Progress Village, outside of Tampa, have lived beside a radioactive phosphogypsum stack. Now there are plans to expand the waste site.

A Radioactive Waste Stack Looms Beside a Segregation-Era Community—and It’s Expanding - Inside Climate News

Progress Village was established decades ago to provide affordable housing for Black residents near Tampa. The phosphogypsum stack, containing the toxic waste of fertilizer production, is right next d...

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“It is shameful to sign away public trust while residents are left to ask basic questions about our energy, wells, water, wildlife, and our health." Richmond County officials secretly crafted the deal w Amazon then sprang it on an area burdened by pollution insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...

Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina - Inside Climate News

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.

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Fossil fuel companies and 22 states have asked a federal judge in Syracuse to strike down New York's $75 billion Climate Superfund law. U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes expressed skepticism toward the state's defense and will issue a written decision.

Court hearing held in Syracuse over New York's Climate Superfund law

A federal judge in Syracuse is weighing a lawsuit from 22 states and oil companies seeking to overturn New York’s $75 billion Climate Superfund law.

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New Yorkers must push back against the misinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry and anti-solar influencers. Share this article with your friends. Spread the facts, stop the misinformation! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

New York takes on the myth that solar is swallowing farmland

As the White House and viral influencers push misleading info about solar, New York says the facts show the clean energy source and agriculture can thrive…

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Climate activists accuse the fossil fuel industry of profiting from war while Europe is burning on the back of its business. Shell faces backlash as profits soar 70% on back of Trump's Iran war. news.sky.com/story/shell-...

Shell faces backlash as profits rise 70% on back of war

Climate activists accuse the industry of profiting from the effects of the US-Iran conflict at a time when Europe is burning on the back of its business.

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We messed up! During a segment earlier this week about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote purportedly by author Naomi Klein that was itself AI-generated. She joined us on today's program to discuss the viral spread of the words falsely attributed to her.

⚠️ 🔥 Spanish speakers: Please read & share this article about a gas well that has burned for months in Las Choapas, Veracruz, Mexico, causing vast health and ecologic problems. And if you know anyone that might be able to help on the ground there, please comment. www.gatopardo.com/articulos/to...

Todo esto recién está empezando (Veracruz, mi tierra empetrolada) | Gatopardo

El derrame de crudo en el golfo de México es la manifestación más reciente de una enfermedad que, trágicamente, se ha tornado endémica: las afectaciones medioambientales y de salud pública provocadas ...

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Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

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No community has fought fracking more relentlessly and with more courage than the Arlington, Texas where fracking wells proliferate near daycare centers, playgrounds, and schools and where elected officials seem to have forgotten whose well-being they serve. Here’s our latest frontline report:

Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 2w ago

In our July newsletter: A focus on the shocking proximity of #fracking sites to #Arlington Texas' 76 public schools. New data, new urgency & a fully-referenced statement from Concerned Health Professionals of NY. @liveablearlington.bsky.social @fractracker.bsky.social www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/7/...

Here’s a great example of the work we do at @sehnetwork.bsky.social: When the grassroots group Liveable Arlington released data on fracking wells near schools, we supported their release with a statement summarizing the known health threats of fracking for kids. 1/2 www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/7/...

The U.S. is facing a major outbreak of the foodborne disease cyclosporiasis. @drdebhoury.bsky.social, the former chief medical officer at the CDC, says funding cuts to the public health agency have “left our country hampered in being able to detect and respond to these outbreaks.”

Environmental groups are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency reject a new Pfas that chemical giant Chemours is attempting to fast track for approval for use in cooling datacenters, and would almost certainly pollute regions around the facilities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters

Coalition says Chemours downplayed health and climate risks in bid to fast-track the compound’s use

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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

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🧪 I wrote a decidedly anti-MAHA biography of the baby boomer petrochemical known as glyphosate (Roundup) whose original underachieving career plans were to descale boilers and now it’s sprayed on food, is inside all our bodies, and likely causes cancer. www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/7/...

Repercussion Section: Glyphosate: A Short, Unfinished Biography — The Science and Environmental Health Network

by Sandra Steingraber, senior scientist and writer in residence

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The ban on #fracking that protects our beautiful #DelawareRiver & all that depend upon her remains intact. The ban is also protecting our nation, world, & future generations from the ravages of fracking. insideclimatenews.org/news/1507202...

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now) - Inside Climate News

The congressional amendment sought to overturn a fracking prohibition that protects water used by millions of people. Critics predict that natural gas allies will try again.

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Great summary by Sarah Hoffman at desmog on new report by Center for Climate Integrity on decades-old misinformation campaign by big oil & gas on natural gas, methane, and climate. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/h...

How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

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In our July newsletter: A focus on the shocking proximity of #fracking sites to #Arlington Texas' 76 public schools. New data, new urgency & a fully-referenced statement from Concerned Health Professionals of NY. @liveablearlington.bsky.social @fractracker.bsky.social www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/7/...

New Resources for Understanding the Risks and Harms of Fracking to Arlington, Texas Schoolchildren — The Science and Environmental Health Network

by Carmi Orenstein, Networker editor and program director,  Concerned Health Professionals of New York We live in a state that prioritizes the profits of polluters, over protecting its resident...

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The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency Just as Prices Are Rising www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

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Bears Ears is an interconnected living cultural landscape. Its significance cannot be reduced to individual sites because the relationships among its waters, plants, animals, and sacred places give this ancestral homeland its meaning. Map courtesy of The Wilderness Society.

Nearly 36,000 acres could be auctioned for oil development, including 13,000 acres along Carrizo Plain’s boundary. 🚨 Tell BLM to remove high-conflict parcels before comments close August 1: https://ow.ly/lvQA50ZoxAm

Yes, this is exactly it. There have always been lightning strikes in forests, but forests used to be damp, especially at this time of year, when snows were still melting. Climate change is drying out the northern boreal forest. That’s why lightning now ignites fires.

Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm no fireologist, but maybe the fact that Canada's warm season is getting warmer and their warm season relative humidity is getting lower might be why they seem to be burning up every year. 🔥

"A FIRE HOSE" of POLLUTION." A fire hose of dangerous pollution blankets the US. Smoke from Minnesota and Ontario wildfires is pouring over the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing record levels of hazardous air pollution to major cities. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prep...

A fire hose of dangerous pollution from wildfires blankets the northern US

Smoke from northern Minnesota and western Ontario wildfires is pouring over the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing record levels of hazardous air pollution to major cities

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fired Kip Tyler after he raised the need to monitor for microplastic pollution in the permit for the first aquaculture project in federal waters. PEER is representing Tyler in challenging his dismissal. https://ow.ly/QJ6h50ZmUe0

EPA’s Dire Fear of Addressing Microplastic Pollution

EPA Engineer Fired after Asking for Microplastic Monitoring in Permit

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Major win for communities: Plans for one of the world's largest blue hydrogen & ammonia plant have been canceled! The gas and chemicals company Air Products officially abandoned its planned $4.5 billion Clean Energy Complex in Louisiana, swallowing a massive $2.9 billion loss. 1/5 bit.ly/4gvXn71

Why it matters: Air Products' Louisiana blue hydrogen and ammonia project canceled

A monumental community victory as the Air Products Louisiana project canceled its multi-billion dollar blue hydrogen and ammonia proposal.

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We are part of a coalition of environmental and scientific organizations, represented by Earthjustice, who today filed a petition asking the FCC to complete a comprehensive environmental review before licensing satellite-based data centers. https://ow.ly/wb1o50ZlJ5p

Coalition Calls for Rigorous Federal Review of Space-Based Data Center Proposals

As companies make plans to launch more than a million data centers into space, FCC must provide oversight and conduct a thorough review of the risks and impacts of these projects to ensure they are not causing irreparable environmental harm to our planet.

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