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“Mostly in coffee,” she said with a laugh.
It’s a small but important sign that the Silent Spring Institute research scientist is confident in the work Barnstable town officials have done to cut the amount of dangerous chemicals within the municipal water supply.
But before town officials recognized the problem more than five years ago, people across Hyannis were drinking the contaminated water.
Now, Schaider and her colleagues at the institute, the first organization to find PFAS chemicals in Cape Cod drinking water, are trying to assess the scale of the effects the contaminated water might have had on humans health.
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Gov. Tom Wolf is recalling his nomination to the state’s utility regulator after GOP senators promised to block his candidates.
Wolf nominated Hayley Book to the Public Utility Commission’s board, which has been short a member for over a year.
Book, a Department of Environmental Protection climate adviser, is leading the administration’s effort to have the state join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
Republicans oppose RGGI because they say it will hurt the state’s coal industry and they don’t like that the Wolf Administration is joining without legislative approval.
Last month, they wrote to Wolf saying they would reject any nominee to the PUC unless he drops the RGGI effort. Wolf said he will continue to move forward with the effort.
Governor Inslee is leading the race against climate change. Other governors should keep up.
May 18, 2021
This post was co-authored by Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager, U.S. Climate at EDF
Washington state just officially became the country’s frontrunner on climate action. On Monday, Governor Inslee signed a landmark cap-and-invest bill, called the
Climate Commitment Act, which sets the most ambitious limit on climate pollution of any state in the nation. The bill will rapidly drive down emissions in line with Washington’s science-based, climate goals: 45% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 95% by 2050. And in addition to putting the state on the path to a safer climate, the Climate Commitment Act makes crucial steps toward improving local air quality.
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