A three and a half minute video from Climate Reality explains the costs of carbon in the atmosphere. Video: “The Cost of Carbon” | Climate Reality To bring it home, let’s do a comparison. Commercial air travel is considered one of the most carbon intensive modes of travel. At 1.1 Billion pounds annually, Port Townsend …
How much pollution does Port Townsend Paper spew? Has it gotten any better? The attached table, entitled 2008-2016 PTPC Pollution Indicators to Air-Water-Land presents Port Townsend Paper’s pollution track record for 9 years, from 2008-2016 in a file with easy totals, and a page for each year. More about it below, but first — In …
EPA’s ECHO database (Environmental Compliance History Online) yields some great information once you get exploring around in it. An EPA official showed me that by following the “Facility Search” link, it brought me to a page that combines annual pollution data for Port Townsend Paper that is collected through three EPA programs (TRI, NAAQS and GHG), …
As I sit here two miles from the Port Townsend Paper mill having to wear a fume mask and my eyes are burning as they have a few times a day for the last several weeks, while that disgusts & sickens me, I’m pleased to present this webpage update for you at PTAirWatchers.org: -Better menu …
Science now, more than ever! “Our Celebration of Science, co-sponsored by Olympic Climate Action, Feiro Marine Life Center and others, is a satellite event for the National March for Science, taking place Earth Day, April 22, 2… Source: Celebration of Science | Olympic Climate Action Save
Send us your “mill stink” stories! At PTAW, we have a request now and periodically get requests for stories about how the mill’s stink affects people, the effect that the mill’s fumes and other pollution has on our health and our experience of living here. We’d like to collect many, so that when a request …
Cut through the weirdness that is happening in our Federal government by talking directly with your legislators. The Town Hall Project is scheduling town hall meetings with federal legislators across the country throughout 2017. For scheduled meetings and updates, go to Town Hall Project || Find a Town Hall Near you Washington legislator meetings for …
Trump’s cabinet appointees will affect clean air, water and land in Port Townsend. Yes! Even in the past few years, people in the positions listed below have made policy in their departments that directly affect how much pollution PT Paper is allowed to make or tools available to us for holding them accountable. (Not to …
Jan 25, 2017, NRDC’s John Wilke writes: “I presented the following testimony at a Senate Democratic roundtable explaining two reasons why Mr. Pruitt [Trump’s nominee Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma] is unfit to be EPA Administrator: (1) he misrepresented his positions and misled Senators during his confirmation hearing; and (2) he has stated his …
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is the premier annual gathering for environmentalists worldwide, and is distinguished as the oldest and largest… Source: PIELC | Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Join us in attending. Yes, we will be carpooling so drop us a line.-ed.) Announcing PIELC 2017: One Cause, One Voice Over the last 35 …