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140+ Groups Call on Trans Mountain’s Insurers to Drop the Pipeline

Rusting, corroded pipeline

140+ organizations representing 24 million people Call on Trans Mountain’s Insurers to Drop the Pipeline.

Insurance coverage of more than USD $500 million for the Trans Mountain pipeline expires on August 31, 2020. The insurers on track to renew their coverage include AIG, Chubb, Energy Insurance Limited, Liberty Mutual, Lloyd’s, Starr, Stewart Specialty Risk Underwriting, and W.R. Berkley. They all received copies of the letter.

The Trans Mountain pipeline is a major environmental and public health hazard with a long history of disastrous spills. The expansion project (TMX) would triple its output of tar sands oil to 870,000 barrels per day, increasing the number of oil tankers that traverse the BC and Washington coasts and risks of major spills of diluted bitumen.
#stop_tmx #indigenous_communities #water #environment #health

Source: <a href=”https://www.insureourfuture.us/updates/2020/8/5/140-groups-call-on-trans-mountains-insurers-to-drop-the-pipeline

This entry was posted in General and tagged environment, health, stop_tmx, water on August 7, 2020 by Steve.

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Toxic chemicals from burning fossil fuels poison dolphins and whales on East Coast

It was reported a couple of years ago that, “The Trump administration is letting oil companies dump toxic fracking chemicals into the Gulf with no regard for the risks or the law,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center. “That’s just unacceptable. The EPA is supposed to protect water quality, not give oil companies free rein to use our oceans as their garbage disposal.”

Dumping toxic chemicals into the oceans doesn’t make it magically disappear.

August 6, 2020

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Reducing Air Pollution Has Helped Children in Northeast U.S., Study Finds

“What makes this study particularly important is that it
shows how we have so absurdly undervalued the welfare of our children in
how we approach our public policies,” said Aaron Bernstein, interim
director of the Center for Climate, Health and Global Environment
at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a pediatrician at
Boston Children’s Hospital, to WBUR. Bernstein was not involved with the
study. “We really have a lot to gain by fully accounting for what air
pollution and other forms of pollution do to children,” he added.

The researchers quantified just how much RGGI has contributed
to children’s health. The main driver for the improved health was from
the reduction of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Due to the
restriction, the region avoided an estimated 537 cases of child asthma,
112 preterm births, 98 cases of autism spectrum disorder, and 56 cases
of low birth weight from 2009 to 2014, which provided an economic
savings of between $191 million to $350 million, according to Environmental Health News.

August 1, 2020

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‘Jaw-dropping’ world fertility rate crash expected

The world is ill-prepared for the
global crash in children being born which is set to have a
“jaw-dropping” impact on societies, say researchers.

Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.

And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.

Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born.

What is going on?

July 15, 2020

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Coronavirus: How environmental destruction influences the emergence of pandemics

“It’s been well known for the past 30, 40 years…that the greatest threat to humanity from a virology perspective is a pathogenic respiratory RNA virus,” said Marc-André Langlois, the Canadian Research Chair in molecular virology and intrinsic immunity, and a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa.

“If there’s one virus that will wipe out a large swatch of humanity, it would be this type of virus.”

April 4, 2020

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