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Pipeline, closed since 2015 after huge oil spill, reopens after president cites need to boost US supply amid war on Iran

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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. In February 2023, George Garrow jumped in his car and hurried to help people impacted by a freight train that had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The crash happened about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line and sent plumes of toxic smoke and hazardous chemicals into the air above the small town. A medical doctor by training, Garrow was on his way there when it dawned on him that he was in over his head. “I realized I don’t know the first thing about what we were supposed to do to care for someone who may be exposed to an environmental pollutant,” he said. Garrow is CEO of Primary Health Network, Pennsylvania’s largest federally qualified health center, with a network of 46 community clinics. Also known as community health centers, these sites aim to fill gaps in the healthcare system and provide care to underserved populations, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. A few months after the train derailment, wildfires raging in Canada sent smoke billowing south into Pennsylvania, and Garrow recalled seeing people harmed by the...

In February 2023, George Garrow jumped in his car and hurried to help people impacted by a freight train that had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The crash happened about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line and sent plumes of toxic smoke and hazardous chemicals into the air above the small town. A medical doctor by training, Garrow was on his way there when it dawned on him that he was in over his head. “I realized I don’t know the first thing about what we were supposed to do to care for someone who may be exposed to an environmental pollutant,” he said. Garrow is CEO of Primary Health Network, Pennsylvania’s largest federally qualified health center, with a network of 46 community clinics. Also known as community health centers, these sites aim to fill gaps in the healthcare system and provide care to underserved populations, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. A few months after the train derailment, wildfires raging in Canada sent smoke billowing south into Pennsylvania, and Garrow recalled seeing people harmed by the dangerous air quality. “What I noticed was [the wildfire smoke] was particularly impactful on folks that were under-resourced: people in...

Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces

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Monique Barbut submitted her resignation in protest over the reintroduction of pesticides that scientists say harm human health as well as bee populations. But President Emmanuel Macron reportedly ref...