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Rivers will be checked for sewage and other pollution by the general public this month in an attempt to assess the health of British waterways.Cuts to the UK regulators and a change in the law to allow water company self-monitoring of pollution in England mean there is little independent monitoring of the state of rivers in the UK.When the UK was in the EU, it was subject to the water framework directive, which meant it had to carry out detailed pollution analysis of waterways and report every year. There has not been a survey done under the WFD since 2019, and the Conservative government began the process of removing the EU standards from UK legislation. The Labour government has not indicated whether it intends to continue this deregulation.’Citizen scientists’ have therefore been intensifying efforts to check rivers for pollution to try to find the true scale of the problem.The Rivers Trust has developed an app for its Big River Watch and is asking users to spend 15 minutes by their local river and fill in a survey, building up a picture of the damage done to rivers around the UK. The survey includes questions on river wildlife, signs of pollution, and health and wellbeing.Tessa Wardley, the director of communication and advocacy at the Rivers Trust, said: “We know that no rivers in England are in good overall health, but we also know that environmental monitoring is currently very sparse. Having a large set of data from one weekend will help our experts to understand what’s going on in our rivers, and what needs to be done to make them cleaner, healthier, and part of a thriving wider environment.“As well as learning where pollution and wildlife are spotted, we also want to know how spending time near rivers affects people’s wellbeing, so I’d encourage anyone and everyone to spend some time by their river and make their voice heard.”This week, the government announced it would take measures to force water bosses to clean up waterways in England and Wales.Water bosses who cover up data around sewage spills could be jailed for up to two years under legislation introduced to the House of Commons on Thursday. CEO bonuses will be blocked if companies fail to meet environmental, consumer and fiscal targets, and ministers plan to pass legislation that would force water companies to pay the enforcement costs of the Environment Agency and Drinking Water Inspectorate if they are under investigation.The environment secretary, Steve Reed, also announced a comprehensive review into the structure of the water industry, with the terms of reference to be announced later in the autumn.skip past newsletter promotionThe planet's most important stories. Get all the week's environment news - the good, the bad and the essentialPrivacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.after newsletter promotionCampaigners, however, said these measures alone would not end the sewage crisis and that regulators needed more funding and strengthening, and that there needed to be a plan with targets and milestones to phase out spills of human waste into rivers and seas.The Big River Watch runs from 6-12 September.

Big River Watch scheme asks general public to help monitor state of rivers after years of deregulationRivers will be checked for sewage and other pollution by the general public this month in an attempt to assess the health of British waterways.Cuts to the UK regulators and a change in the law to allow water company self-monitoring of pollution in England mean there is little independent monitoring of the state of rivers in the UK. Continue reading...

Rivers will be checked for sewage and other pollution by the general public this month in an attempt to assess the health of British waterways.

Cuts to the UK regulators and a change in the law to allow water company self-monitoring of pollution in England mean there is little independent monitoring of the state of rivers in the UK.

When the UK was in the EU, it was subject to the water framework directive, which meant it had to carry out detailed pollution analysis of waterways and report every year. There has not been a survey done under the WFD since 2019, and the Conservative government began the process of removing the EU standards from UK legislation. The Labour government has not indicated whether it intends to continue this deregulation.

’Citizen scientists’ have therefore been intensifying efforts to check rivers for pollution to try to find the true scale of the problem.

The Rivers Trust has developed an app for its Big River Watch and is asking users to spend 15 minutes by their local river and fill in a survey, building up a picture of the damage done to rivers around the UK. The survey includes questions on river wildlife, signs of pollution, and health and wellbeing.

Tessa Wardley, the director of communication and advocacy at the Rivers Trust, said: “We know that no rivers in England are in good overall health, but we also know that environmental monitoring is currently very sparse. Having a large set of data from one weekend will help our experts to understand what’s going on in our rivers, and what needs to be done to make them cleaner, healthier, and part of a thriving wider environment.

“As well as learning where pollution and wildlife are spotted, we also want to know how spending time near rivers affects people’s wellbeing, so I’d encourage anyone and everyone to spend some time by their river and make their voice heard.”

This week, the government announced it would take measures to force water bosses to clean up waterways in England and Wales.

Water bosses who cover up data around sewage spills could be jailed for up to two years under legislation introduced to the House of Commons on Thursday. CEO bonuses will be blocked if companies fail to meet environmental, consumer and fiscal targets, and ministers plan to pass legislation that would force water companies to pay the enforcement costs of the Environment Agency and Drinking Water Inspectorate if they are under investigation.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, also announced a comprehensive review into the structure of the water industry, with the terms of reference to be announced later in the autumn.

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Campaigners, however, said these measures alone would not end the sewage crisis and that regulators needed more funding and strengthening, and that there needed to be a plan with targets and milestones to phase out spills of human waste into rivers and seas.

The Big River Watch runs from 6-12 September.

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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court overturned a 2021 ruling convicting 37 people and three firms for deadly pollution linked to the former Ilva steelworks on Friday and ordered a retrial, ANSA news agency said.The ex-Ilva site, once the largest steel producer in Europe, has for more than 10 years been embroiled in legal proceedings over allegations that its toxic emissions have caused a surge in cancer cases in the city of Taranto.Friday's ruling is a major blow for the prosecution and plaintiffs in the case, as starting a first-instance trial from scratch increases the likelihood at least some charges may be dropped due to the statute of limitations. The appeals court accepted defence arguments that the trial needed to move to another city as judges and jury members based in Taranto could not be impartial as they were also "offended parties" in the alleged environmental disaster, ANSA said. Among those convicted three years ago were former Ilva owners, brothers Fabio and Nicola Riva, sentenced respectively to 22 and 20 years in prison, and the former head of the Puglia region, Nichi Vendola, who was given a 3-1/2 year sentence.The fate of Acciaierie d'Italia (ADI), as Ilva is now known, is a major headache for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as her government is seeking an industrial partner to revamp the group.Six international and domestic players, including India's Vulcan Green Steel and Ukraine's Metinvest, expressed a preliminary interest in taking over the steelworks, which are now in government-controlled special administration.(Reporting by Giuseppe Fonte, editing by Alvise Armellini and Hugh Lawson)Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.Photos You Should See - July 2024

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Granbury residents say a noisy Bitcoin mine keeps them up at night. Now a plan to expand the power plant that fuels the mine is drawing opposition over pollution concerns.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. GRANBURY — About 150 angry residents gathered in a conference center here on Monday for a public meeting hosted by the state environmental agency regarding Constellation Energy’s proposal to build a new 300-megawatt power plant alongside two existing power plants that border residential neighborhoods. But it was not only the power plant stirring up controversy. Marathon Digital, a Florida-based cryptocurrency company, operates a 300-megawatt Bitcoin mine on Constellation Energy’s property. For months, residents have complained about the constant noise emanating from thousands of fans cooling Marathon’s computers that run round-the-clock processing Bitcoin transactions. The unyielding low-frequency sound waves have caused loss of sleep, and residents believe it may also be responsible for a host of unexplained health problems that have arisen since the Bitcoin mine opened in 2022. At the meeting, a representative from Constellation, two of the company’s environmental consultants and five officials from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality responded to questions for about 50 minutes before listening to dozens of official public comments from residents of Granbury and neighboring towns. “It’s not right. Y’all moved in on top of us. We didn’t move in on y’all,” said Nick Browning, looking directly at the Constellation Energy representatives as he delivered his remarks. For more than 30 years, the 81-year-old has lived about 800 feet from the property where Constellation Energy started building power plants in the early 2000s. Constellation’s plan is to erect eight new turbines powered by natural gas to generate electricity. The company applied for air permits to release more than 796,000 additional tons of carbon dioxide per year. To sequester that amount of CO2 would require planting nearly 12 million trees and allowing them to grow for 10 years, according to EPA estimates. The permit also proposes increased emissions at the site for a host of other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. The most important Texas news,sent weekday mornings. By their presence alone, the crowd of largely white elderly and middle-aged Texans — several donning Trump campaign attire — showed that fossil fuel power plants can face opposition from all political stripes, especially when tied up with loud Bitcoin mines. United by concern for how more air emissions coupled with noise pollution could impact their health, the community also expressed mistrust in the process itself, believing that the meeting was for show, and the permits will be approved. “What I’m hearing,” said Jim Brown of Granbury, “is as long as the government is OK with it, the public just has to submit.” Texas leads the nation in mining for Bitcoin, the largest and best known cryptocurrency. First devised in 2008 as an electronic payment system that cuts out middlemen like banks and credit card companies, Bitcoin transactions are managed by a decentralized network of Bitcoin users. A Bitcoin, currently worth about $57,500, can be purchased with dollars at a Bitcoin exchange, like Coinbase. To buy something with Bitcoin, a buyer sends the currency from a digital wallet to the seller’s digital wallet. For each transaction, a computer algorithm assigns a unique random identifying code, which must be guessed in order to validate the transaction. Bitcoin “mining” comes when companies like Marathon Digital operate powerful computers day and night running an endless series of random numbers before hitting upon, or guessing, the correct code. For every transaction successfully guessed, a Bitcoin miner receives a fee for helping maintain the network and keep it secure. At the same time that Bitcoin mining is growing and using enormous amounts of electricity, so is overall demand on the Texas state power grid. In an effort to bolster grid reliability, the Texas Legislature passed a loan program, the Texas Energy Fund, designed to help more gas-fired power plants come online. Voters approved the program in a statewide election in 2023, and last month, the Constellation Energy expansion, known as Wolf Hollow III, was among more than a dozen selected projects that could receive taxpayer-funded loans if agreements are finalized. In a statement, Constellation Energy said that the power from its new addition “would be prohibited from directly serving industrial load,” such as Bitcoin. The company said it is “sensitive” to noise concerns, and that currently, no expansions of Bitcoin mining are planned. But Jackie Sawicky, a founding member of the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining, told Inside Climate News that even if the new generation does not directly power Bitcoin, Wolf Hollow III would be replacing the energy capacity that Wolf Hollow II has set aside for Bitcoin, since both the mine and the new power plant have a capacity of 300 megawatts. Sawicky said that the Texas Energy Fund is “another handout” for the fossil fuel industry and by extension the Bitcoin mining companies that she said “ingratiate themselves on our grid.” Shannon Wolf, a Republican precinct chair for Hood County, where Granbury is located, said at the meeting that she voted for the ballot proposition to create the Texas Energy Fund. But she said she does not support Wolf Hollow III being built in an area “surrounded by ranches and farms and churches and an elementary school.” “I am worried about what’s going to happen as a result of these pollutants,” Wolf said. Another point of contention at the public meeting was how often Wolf Hollow III would operate, with the company saying it is designed as a peaking plant that only turns on when required to meet electricity demand. Constellation said the new power plant would be limited to operating only about 40% of the year. “It’s not really clear who’s going to monitor that,” Adrian Shelley, Texas director for the nonprofit Public Citizen, said at the meeting. Officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said no decision has yet been made on whether to grant a permit for the new plant. Residents who live closest to the project site are able to request a contested case hearing, a process in which an independent administrative judge hears community’s concerns and issues a recommendation on whether the permit should be approved. For nearby residents, there is a real fear that expansion could worsen their health. Karen Pearson, who lives across the highway from Constellation’s property, said her family, including her father Nick Browning, has experienced hypertension and hearing loss. Her mother, Victoria Browning, discovered a mass in her brain in July after a year of declining health, and Pearson said her doctors are baffled after determining that the mass is not a tumor. Pearson thinks the problems are environmental. “It's about getting our health and quality of life back,” she said. “This is not just happening to us. This is happening to a whole lot of other people out here.”

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PITTSBURGH — Amidst recent news that President Biden plans to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel on national security grounds, communities near the company’s plants in Pennsylvania say their concerns about pollution are still ignored. While news about the merger has created political ripples nationally and internationally, members of environmental justice communities in the Pittsburgh region that have experienced elevated risk for asthma, lung disease and cancer for generations as a result of U.S. Steel’s harmful emissions say their voices aren’t being heard.“Despite the drama in the press, the real issues remain the same,” Matthew Mehalik, executive director of the Breathe Project, a coalition of more than 30 groups advocating for more stringent air pollution controls in the region, said in a statement. “The ongoing threats from pollution from outdated and leaking coke and steel plants…need to be addressed.” New federal coke oven regulationsEmissions from coke ovens, which convert coal into coke, a key ingredient in steelmaking, include chemicals like benzene, formaldehyde and heavy metals. Coke oven emissions are carcinogenic and are also linked to lung and respiratory disease. There are coke ovens in 11 locations throughout the U.S., including Indiana and Alabama, but the largest coke plant in the country is U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, about 16 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Communities surrounding the plant regularly see some of the highest daily air pollution levels in the country. U.S. Steel also has several other steel making facilities in the Pittsburgh region. On July 5, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed new regulations for coke ovens to reduce hazardous emissions of chemicals like benzene, mercury, lead and arsenic. Under the federal Clean Air Act, the EPA is supposed to update coke oven regulations every eight years, but it hadn’t done so since 2005, and it only issued the new rules after being sued by environmental advocacy groups over the delay. 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