#Smog

[yodaprod]

Los Angeles (1976)

[pinkblanc]

Pittsburgh industrial pollution, 1940s

[alteredarchie]

Josie and Melody vs. Air Pollution

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[scavengedluxury]

Southeast view from somewhere around Columbus Circle, New York, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[odinsblog]

Whether you call it climate change or pollution, it’s still a series of policy decisions (deregulation). Deregulation that is disproportionately upheld by greedy corporations, red state Democrats, and is enforced overwhelmingly by Republican and Libertarian controlled legislatures.

(sources and other relevant links beneath the cut)

👉🏿 https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-east-air-quality

👉🏿 https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-david-wallace-wells

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666541345069219840.html

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648986424098652160.html

[dinodanicus]

A male eudimorphodon ventures down to the forest to hunt for suitable nesting material.

[unrealityliminal]

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment.

The ruling followed recent decisions chipping away at the agency’s authority to address climate change and water pollution.

Under the proposal, known as the “good neighbor” plan, factories and power plants in Western and Midwestern states must cut ozone pollution that drifts into Eastern ones. The emissions cause smog and are linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death.

The ruling was provisional, but even the temporary loss for the administration will suspend the plan for many months and maybe longer.

The vote was 5 to 4. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the court’s ruling was modest, pausing the administration’s plan in light of developments in lower courts. He said the Supreme Court’s stay would remain in place while a federal appeals court in Washington considered the matter and, after that, until the Supreme Court acts on any appeal.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by the court’s three liberal members, issued a spirited dissent predicting that the majority had created a “yearslong exercise in futility.”

“Given the number of companies included and the timelines for review,” she wrote, “the court’s injunction leaves large swaths of upwind states free to keep contributing significantly to their downwind neighbors’ ozone problems for the next several years.”

She called one argument set out in the majority opinion “a feeble response.” Another, she said, “throws at the wall a cherry-picked assortment of E.P.A. statements.”

“None stick,” she added.

Vickie Patton, general counsel of the Environmental Defense Fund, criticized the majority’s approach as reckless.

[myso-maggie]

[kvetch19]

[call-me-charles]

took this myself yesterday, looks liminal to me so yes

let me know if the hashtags are correct, if they are wrong, please feel free to correct me

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning! Happy Climate!!!

Don't forget to smile!!!

[alteredarchie]

Poor Josie....not enjoying the hazy day

[meriol-lehmann]

cnrl horizon highway, fort mckay

[blue-shy]

Lies Of P, Workshop