As a University of California Irvine professor said in my last blog, “The world is facing many life-threatening impacts of climate change, so people having to spend a bit more to drink beer may seem trivial by comparison.” Steven Davis, from the department of Earth System Sciences, means beer is a luxury consumption and people [...]
Two weeks ago Ella Abbott and I traveled to Stratton, Ohio, where we discovered a sense of disapproval over the closing of the W.H. Sammis Power plant, a coal-fired facility. Even though the fossil fuel power station emits carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas which is a major contributor to climate change, some community members [...]
One of the worst contributors to air pollution are coal-fired power plants. In 2015 coal produced 81.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This puts Ohio fourth highest producing CO2 emissions in the country. Fortunately, the state is stripping away its coal power plants and finding alternative [...]
Take a deep breath in. Now, breathe out … it’s probably toxic. It’s possible every time we breathe we are inhaling particle pollution, a mixture of solids and liquid droplets floating in the air continuously. No one thinks about it. It’s not like we can choose the oxygen we breathe. Rather, we choose how far [...]
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