Brian McHugh

67% of Britons say they anti- Trump

Q: "You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school…but you're the only person in your government saying this…Why are you the only person saying this?"

Trump: "Because I just don't know enough about it."

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.

Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.

Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.

It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.

Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:

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B.C. Doctors Flag Alarming Health Trends Near Fracking Sites Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease

Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:

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Fracking firm denied more time to restore Lancashire site Cuadrilla has

In Lancashire they're still waiting for a fracking site to be cleaned up so it's safe to farm on, years after fracking was paused:

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Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal and not the Government Secretary of State declines to call in Burniston fracking proposal River Ure in Yorkshire Proposals for fracking near Scarborough will now not be ‘called in’ by the Government and instead the decis…

In Yorkshire, a fracking firm tries to get round the ban on fracking by saying the 'proppant squeeze' they plan to use is not a form of fracking, so exempt from the ban.

Others beg to differ:

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Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon -

- vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution:

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HSE consults on classifying a type of PFAS emitted from Lancashire chemical factory as ‘possible carcinogen’ The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on classifying a PFAS chemical that is emitted to the environment from the AGC Chemicals factory near Blackpool as a “possible carcino...

The HSE may class the PFAS used by AGC's factory in Lancashire (EEA-NH4) as a possible carcinogen & reprotoxic substance. @watershed-i.bsky.social previously uncovered they're emitting 800kg per year into the River Wyre and it's in the soil around the plant.

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Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row

Again please?
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Great to see this review of Rebecca Solnit's latest book 'The Beginning Comes After the End' shared by @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

The UK relies heavily on imports of food. Recent events have shown, in an increasingly volatile world, you can't always count on ships being able to move about.

Some countries are stockpiling food to prepare for climate shocks, the UK should too, says Prof Lang:

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

‘Toxic’ Black Rain Falls on Tehran After Oil Sites Struck Israeli air strikes targeted an oil storage facility in Tehran on Saturday night, according to reports.

-Iran's Red Crescent warns rain tainted with combusted oil could cause 'chemical burns & lung' damage

-Urges people to shelter indoors during rain

-cover doors & windows with damp cloth

-remove contaminated clothes & seal in bag

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Water Security Atlas - showing incidents of water related conflict in Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman

We loaded Pacific Institute data on water conflict onto our Water Security map, so you can explore incidents of water-related violence around the world:

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Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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Great to see this review of Rebecca Solnit's latest book 'The Beginning Comes After the End' shared by @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Review of ‘The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change’ by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world

Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/08/r...

Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

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Appreciate this, thanks!

Gardiner details the impacts of fracking, endocrine disruptors and microplastics -the chemical cocktail which poses clear physical risks to humans, marine life and many other life forms. Fossil fuel companies have unleashed a ‘plastic chemical virus’ then blamed us for its impact.

Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

Review of 'Plastic Inc' by @bethgardiner.bsky.social

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Indeed

Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review? Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment This coming week will see Rushcliffe Borough Cabinet meet again to discuss and decide on a planning decision which will allow for a…

Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review?

Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment

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#Pollution
#RushcliffeBoroughCouncil

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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Petrochemicals for plastic are "expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come".

Fascinating interview with Beth Gardiner about her new book: Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash Our Future

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

Review of 'Plastic Inc' by @bethgardiner.bsky.social

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Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish Plastic, textiles, e-waste and more end up at the vast Dandora site, where waste pickers spend all hours sifting through toxic debris looking for recyclables

Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish

Nothing is ever thrown away.

There is no 'away'

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