Inhance faces EPA, environmental group lawsuits
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PEER | January 13, 2023
Packaging barrier maker Inhance Technologies LLC is facing questions about the safety of its fluorination coating process for high density polyethylene containers, including an investigation and lawsuit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read the PEER Story… ...
NASA now eyes 2023 first flight for X-59, as supersonic projects face heat
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In 12 January letter, nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility urged NASA administrator Bill Nelson to review the X-59 programme in light of “climate implications”. “Supersonic aircraft consume many times more fuel and produce many times the amount of ...
Supersonic Aviation Program Could Cause ‘Climate Debacle,’ Environmentalists Warn
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PEER | January 12, 2023
An experimental jet that aerospace company Lockheed Martin is building for NASA as part of a half-billion dollar supersonic aviation program is a “climate debacle,” according to an environmental group that is calling for the space agency to conduct an independent analysis of the jet’ ...
In Colorado, Oil and PFAS Shouldn’t Mix
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“Oil and gas operations are particularly bad places to use PFAS—or any type of dangerous chemical—because there are so many different pathways of contamination,” Horwitt says. PFAS doesn’t just get into our water but our air, too, due to the methane-flaring methods the industry ...
New NASA Supersonic Jet Is a Climate Debacle
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Huge Fuel Consumption Threatens Carbon Net Zero Aviation Goal ...