http://fourwinds10.com 2026-04-08T05:07:32+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1647715681 3-19-22 VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Don’t drink city or county water anywhere in the USA! BQQQQQQQM💥STEW PETERS - Don’t drink city or county water. Anywhere in the country. Anywhere in the world. Not even “filtered” from the faucet. Don’t let your kids drink from the fountains. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1645555266 2-22-22 A major UK study finds that pharmaceutical manufacturing sites is the primary contributors of drug contamination and has polluted almost all the rivers of the world. According to recent study, pharmaceutical contamination of the world’s rivers is significantly more widespread than previously assumed, and now constitutes a worldwide hazard to environmental and human health.   Only two rivers in Iceland and one near a community in Venezuela were fully untouched by pharmaceutical contamination because their residents do not utilise modern medication. Lahore, Pakistan; La Paz, Bolivia; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia had the largest concentrations. The Kai Tak River in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) contained the most medications in a water sample, with 34 pharmaceuticals found. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1637080844 11-16-21 Since 2019, more than 320 toxic substances have been detected in U.S. drinking water systems, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. Those harmful chemicals are linked to cancer, adverse birth and reproduction outcomes, impaired brain development, and a revolving door of other deleterious health impacts. The findings, part of the 2021 update to EWG’s national Tap Water Database, underpin the call for more rigorous federal drinking water standards and the urgency to improve water infrastructure. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1628784359 8-12-21 A view of the Panamanian-registered ship "Crimson Polaris" after it ran aground in Hachinohe harbor in Hachinohe, northern Japan on Aug. 12, 2021. (Courtesy of 2nd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters—Japan Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters) A chartered cargo ship ran aground near Hachinohe Port, northern Japan, then split into two pieces and leaked oil, the Japanese Coast Guard said, noting that there are no reports of injuries among its crew and the oil leak is under investigation. The 39,910-tonne Panamanian-registered vessel named the “Crimson Polaris” was swept away by strong winds while it was anchored and grounded in the harbor on Aug. 11, said Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), a major Japanese shipping company, according to a press release. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1622661097 6-2-21 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A cargo ship carrying tons of chemicals sank off Sri Lanka’s west coast, its navy said on June 2, and tons of plastic pellets have fouled the country’s rich fishing waters in one of its worst marine disasters. The government has suspended fishing along an 80-km (50-mile) stretch of the island’s coastline, affecting 5,600 fishing boats, and hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to clean affected beaches. The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tons of nitric acid along with other chemicals and cosmetics, was anchored off Sri Lanka’s west coast when a fire erupted on the ship after an explosion on May 20. Flaming containers laden with chemicals tumbled into the sea from the ship’s deck as emergency crews sought to contain the blaze over the ensuing two weeks.  Smoke rises from a fire aboard the MV X-Press Pearl vessel as it sinks while being towed to deep waters off the Colombo harbor, in Sri Lanka, on June 2, 2021. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1621617352 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1620833759 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1618938174 4-----19-21 In a study published on April 15 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, an international team of researchers found that more than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall on the planet every year. Tiny meteors in the form of interplanetary dust bombard Earth all the time. Some of these particles travel at exceptional speeds and turn into shooting stars in the process. Some survive the fiery trek through Earth’s atmosphere and reach the ground to become micrometeorites, which are dust-sized extraterrestrial rocks that land on the planet’s surface. Now, by scouring Antarctica for micrometeorites, the researchers were able to quantify how much interplanetary dust hit Earth on average. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1618938040 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1614009021 2-19-21 Air pollution killed 54,000 people in New Delhi, India’s national capital, last year, Greenpeace Southeast Asia revealed in a study published Thursday. “Delhi sustained an estimated 54,000 avoidable deaths due to PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] air pollution in 2020, or one death per 500 people,” the report stated. Exposure to PM2.5 – fine particulate matter measuring smaller than 2. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1602262072 10-9-20 There could be some eight to 14 million tons of microplastic sitting at the bottom of the ocean, according to a groundbreaking report said to be the first global estimate of microplastics on the ocean floor. Published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the report offers a glimpse of the scale of microplastics – minuscule fragments of plastics – accumulating on the ocean floor undisturbed and undetected. Moreover, the report found that the amount of microplastics littering the ocean floor is up to 35 times more than that found floating on the ocean’s surface. In all, their findings reveal that microplastics are, in fact, sinking to the ocean floor, said lead author Justine Barrett from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). But with plastic production and pollution expected to increase in the near future, these findings are also a wake-up call, wrote Barrett and her team. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1596317969 8-1-20 Despite the many technological advances mankind has made in the last few years, experts are still struggling to address a persistent threat to the environment and human health: Plastic waste. Findings from a study showed that, if left unchecked, the annual flow of plastic waste into the ocean could triple by 2040. Fortunately, the study authors have also identified several ways to potentially reduce plastic waste by as much as 80 percent using readily available technologies. But the authors added that these solutions can only be applied “if key decision-makers are willing to make system-wide changes.” Taking steps to defeat the “plastic wave” Results of the scientific analysis conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ were released in a report titled: “Breaking the Plastic Wave: A Comprehensive Assessment of Pathways Towards Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1584971819 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1582987742 2-28-20 Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, Oregon. If built, the $10 billion Jordan Cove project would become the largest source of global warming pollution in the state. FERC commissioners voted 2 to 1 to postpone a decision on federal approvals for the project after a string of permit denials from the state of Oregon. Commissioner Bernard McNamee said he needed an additional week to review the latest denial, issued by the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) one day prior to FERC’s vote. In their February 19 letter, sent to. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1582130267 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1581778780  February 15, 2020   Scott Presler is a Trump supporter who has led volunteer clean-up efforts in multiple American cities. Recently, he was doing it in San Francisco, where he actually encountered some critics. He shut them down by asking a simple question. Townhall reports: Beautiful: Man Cleaning Up After Democrats Asks One Question That Liberals Probably Can’t Answer…Or Defend Oh, this is great. It’s a question that Democrats can’t answer or are unwilling to defend. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1581354304 2-9-20 If you’re buying your honey from domestic apiaries and suppliers, there’s a high chance that you are contributing to the continued eradication of wild bumblebees, according to scientists. According to a group of scientists from the University of Vermont (UVM) and the University of Florida, a spillover of viruses from domesticated honey bees (Apis mellifera) may be killing off populations of many wild bumblebee species (Bombus spp.). The scientists, led by Samantha Alger from UVM published their study in the journal PLOS One. According to the scientists, the viruses are likely to have spread through salivary secretions or feces left behind on flowers by domesticated honey bees while they are foraging. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1579362997 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1577722123 December 28, 2019 It’s a bit like a general vowing to go off to fight some ghost army on the other side of the Earth while his own land is being overrun by barbarians. San Francisco, known for aggressive vagrants and streets littered with fecal matter, hypodermic needles, and trash, is thinking globally and acting loco: Ignoring its real problems, many of its residents and politicians have resolved to banish paper to-go cups. At one café, in fact, customers will be encouraged to bring their own coffee mugs. As Fox Business reported Tuesday, “A growing number of coffee houses in San Francisco are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.” “What started as a small trend among neighborhood cafes to reduce waste is gaining support from some big names in the city’s food and coffee world. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1576768756 12-18-19 To tourists and curious onlookers, the sparkling blue glow surrounding Taiwan’s Matsu Islands may look like a scene straight out of a Disney movie. Experts argue, however, that there’s a much darker side to this beautiful sight. “It’s toxic,” Chanmin Hu, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida, said in an interview with Live Science. The “romantic” and twinkling glow that people see, according to Hu, actually come from “blooms” or explosions in the population of certain organisms called dinoflagellates – tiny balloon-shaped, single-celled creatures that give off a bioluminescent glow when disturbed. This explains the sparkling “blue tears” that appear whenever waves break on the water’s surface. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1576078111 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1575903866 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1575560934 12-4-19 Hundreds of thousands of golf balls have littered the seabed off the coast of California. First discovered by a teenager, the toxic plastic trash is now getting cleaned up slowly but surely by concerned citizens. Alex Weber stumbled across the pollutants during a snorkeling trip in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2017. She and her friends decided to recover the golf balls from the ocean floor. The environmentally-conscious teens removed more than 10,000 balls, which weighed more than half a ton. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1573574243 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1572702102 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1569597444 9-26-19 If you listen to what the mainstream media is saying, you’ll be left with the impression that the United States is the filthiest country on the planet, generating far more plastic pollution and other waste – not to mention all that dreaded carbon dioxide (CO2) – than anybody else. But you’d be wrong if you believed this, because the world’s biggest polluter, by far, is actually China. That’s right, the country that’s never mentioned by the leftist mob is the biggest destroyer of Earth by a long shot, contributing almost three times more plastic waste than the second place polluter, Indonesia, which also just so happens to be in Asia – and which also happens to be nowhere near North America. In fact, the top ten worst polluting countries in the world are all in Asia, with the exception of two of them that are in Africa. In other words, not a single Western country, including America, creates a substantial enough amount of plastic pollution to even be ranked, and yet the U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1569505377 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1569426285 9-24-19 There’s some good news on the environmental front: Carbon emissions in the United States are reportedly at their lowest levels since 1992. But you’d never know it from the fake news media’s endless climate alarmism, which is causing mostly leftists to gnash their teeth about domestic phenomena like cow farts and plastic straws, even as the highly polluting continents of Asia and Africa continue to generate upwards of 90 percent of the world’s total plastic waste. That’s right: America produces substantially less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste, despite being target number one of climate lunatics everywhere who want to see the Constitution completely abolished in order to “save the planet.” The scientific illiterates have somehow convinced themselves that the United States is enemy number one when it comes to environmental pollution, when in fact our country leads the pack in environmental cleanliness. To come to this conclusion, researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research evaluated a trove of data on debris collected from 79 different sampling sites along 57 rivers around the world. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1568903479 9-18-29 President Trump has rescinded a waiver that allowed California to set its own auto emissions standards. The move will almost certainly draw a legal challenge. According to CNBC: President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration is barring California from setting its own auto emissions standards, setting up a fresh struggle over the president’s push to unravel restrictions on businesses.  In tweets announcing the move, the president said the White House “is revoking” a federal waiver that allowed the state to craft its own rules on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. Trump argued he blocked California’s ability to do so “in order to produce far less expensive cars for the consumer, while at the same time making the cars substantially SAFER. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1568128342 9-9-19 Conservative activist Scott Presler after street cleanup event in Baltimore, Md., on Aug. 5, 2019. (Courtesy of Scott Presler)   Conservative activist Scott Presler delivered on his promise to return to Baltimore to help clean up litter from the streets of a city that has long struggled with sanitation. Some 130 volunteers signed up to help Presler on Sept. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1567871209 9-6-19 Shocked onlookers watch man pooping on sidewalk. A post featured on the r/Portland Reddit thread claimed that police said it was legal for the homeless to defecate in public after shocked onlookers saw a man with his butt in the air “depositing a 6-8″ turd onto the sidewalk.” Yes, really. Titled ‘Is it really legal to take a dump on the sidewalk?’ – the Reddit user explains in the post how he was on his way to lunch when he noticed a group of people pointing and staring in the same direction. “There was a homeless person bent at the waist, pants down, ass in the air, depositing a 6-8″ turd onto the sidewalk,” he writes. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1567865275 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1566399198 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1566230656 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1565622893 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1565622592 8-11-19 California is experiencing a homelessness crisis of unprecedented proportions, and it is now endangering the health and safety of every single person living in the state, particularly those who live in coastal areas. Laura Ingraham recently hosted television personality and medical internist Dr. David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, on her show The Ingraham Angle on Fox News. Together they shone a light on the effects of the homelessness crisis, one of which is the fact that 80 percent of California’s coastline is now infested with human feces. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1565270030 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1565269723 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1564840689 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1564759731 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1562767142 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1559056073 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1558624504 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1556375406 April 21, 2019 Fox News Washington state lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that would allow residents to take part in “natural organic reduction” of human remains, citing in part research that said careful composted human remains could be safe for use in a household garden, reports said. The Seattle Times reported that Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s office on Friday said he did not review the final legislation. Inslee-- who is running for president-- has been active on Twitter since the state Senate and House of Representative passed bill 5001, but did not mention the bill in any posts. The bill reportedly passed easily and had bipartisan support. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1555951750 4-18-19 Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle Image 1 of 15 A Community Guide, (declined to give his name) cleans along 6th st. between Mission and Howard streets on Mon. April 23, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco City Hall politicians continue to struggle .. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1555951574 4-21-19 If you’ve been following our ongoing news reports covering the dirty truth about “biosludge,” you’ve likely asked yourself at least once: How in the world did the biosludge industry convince environmental groups to actually support the stuff? As usual, it all comes down to money. As revealed by biosludge expert Craig Monk during a recent interview he gave as part of the Biosludged film project – you can watch the official trailer for Biosludged at Brighteon.com – the biosludge industry has been actively bribing environmental organizations to basically look the other way and pretend as though biosludge is “safe.” Being a resident of Texas, a huge biosludge dumping ground, Monk talked a lot about the Texas Campaign for the Environment, which is one such environmental group that seems to continually ignore the many problems associated with biosludge – one of the biggest being the many chemicals contained in biosludge that nobody seems concerned about addressing. “To environmentalists, and especially the Texas Campaign for the Environment, who supports composting biosolids, I would say: How do you get rid of all the chemicals in it?” Monk stated. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1552750199 3-15-19       The world is literally swimming in the filth produced by private industry, with our oceans becoming a vast dumping-ground for waste as plastic manufacturers and petrochemical companies continue to rake in profits with little regard for the long-term cost of a growing plastic garbage crisis. Thus it comes as a surprise that one of the biggest producers of plastic packaging, the Coca-Cola Company, has admitted that it produces a staggering 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging per year, the rough equivalent of 200,000 bottles every minute. The company had previously refused to release the mind-boggling figure, but finally disclosed the information to The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a charity that has been campaigning alongside UN Environment to convince governments and the world’s largest plastic producing corporations to commit to reduce and ultimately eliminate unnecessary plastic packaging by 2025.   The charity released a report that also includes data from over 30 other companies – including Mars, The Kellogg Company and conglomerates Unilever and Nestlé – who agreed to disclose their annual plastic packaging volumes, a move hailed by the foundation as “an important step toward greater transparency. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1552491098 3-12-19 President Trump has had enough of California and has now set his sight on stripping the state of its ability to regulate fuel efficiency standards. According to The Daily Caller: The Trump administration is done trying to negotiate with California, and will move forward with plans to revoke the state of its authority to set tougher fuel efficiency standards. “At this point, we have to move to finalize,” Andrew Wheeler, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stated in a Monday interview with the Washington Examiner. “We don’t have time to move to reopen [negotiations]. We tried to work with California, but we were just not able to. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1549993204 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1546619379