Yo, can I get my unfinished hoagie recycled in this town?


Frank Kummer writes for Philly.com

The NFL draft could draw up to 200,000 fans to Philadelphia this month for a three-day football gorge fest along the Ben Franklin Parkway.

And, because this is Philadelphia, they’ll want sandwiches and snacks. And, because it’s football, they’ll want beer.

That means thousands of pounds of food, thousands of gallons of drink — along with containers and cups to wrap and carry it all in— all sold by vendors lining the Parkway. About 168,000 fans were registered to attend as of March 31.

So where will all the waste go? And will the unsold food just get tossed?

The NFL says the Philly event will feature an ambitious amount of recycling, not only of trash but also of unused food and materials.




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Look who’s supporting Paris climate pact — Exxon and coal!

Bloomberg reports:
As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. 
A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy companies to lend their support to the global pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to two people familiar with the effort who asked not to be identified.
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Climate activists want to turn anti-Trump rage into votes

A big march in Washington this month will get headlines, but the real action, green groups believe, needs to make waves on election days.

The first People’s Climate March in 2014 in New York was hailed as the largest climate march in history. The second such march will be held in Washington D.C. on April 29, 2017, and the rallying cry is anti-Trump sentiment. Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Marianne Lavelle reports for Inside Climate News:

Activists planning the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29 are mapping out a far more ambitious trek than that day’s walk from the Capitol to the White House. They are trying to turn rage over the Trump administration’s rollback of climate change policy and budget cuts targeting science into actual political clout.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators organized by 50 groups that represent millions of members plan to demand that political leaders preserve protections for the environment and public health and invest in a clean energy economy. The march will culminate a week of activism that begins with the March for Science on April 22, followed by lobbying visits on Capitol Hill, rallies outside federal agencies and national and local candidate training workshops. There will be more than 250 People’s Climate Marches held across the country and overseas.
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NJ chemical lobby calls Argentina cleanup dodge ‘fraud’

Three months after the EPA announced the price tag for cleaning up a Superfund site in Newark, the company that bought polluter Diamond Alkali went into bankruptcy and backed away from the cleanup, leaving public outrage in its wake.

State legislators, at a hearing in the New Jersey Meadowlands today, heard testimony from numerous environmental organizations–and from the state’s chemical industry–all who decried the actions by Maxus Energy and its owner, YPF, Argentina’s state-owned oil company. 


Dennis Hart, executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey, called the attempts by the corporations to avoid responsibility for the Superfund cleanup through bankruptcy a “blatant fraud.”


NJTV News‘ Brenda Flanagan has the story above.

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Interesting story: Climate change reroutes a Yukon River

Ice canyon carries melt water from Kaskawulsh Glacier away from the Slims river (Dan Shuar photo)




John Schwartz reports for The New York Times:

In the blink of a geological eye, climate change has helped reverse the flow of water melting from a glacier in Canada’s Yukon, a hijacking that scientists call “river piracy.”

This engaging term refers to one river capturing and diverting the flow of another. It occurred last spring at the Kaskawulsh Glacier, one of Canada’s largest, with a suddenness that startled scientists.

A process that would ordinarily take thousands of years — or more — happened in just a few months in 2016.

Much of the meltwater from the glacier normally flows to the north into the Bering Sea via the Slims and Yukon Rivers. A rapidly retreating and thinning glacier — accelerated by global warming — caused the water to redirect to the south, and into the Pacific Ocean.

Last year’s unusually warm spring produced melting waters that cut a canyon through the ice, diverting more water into the Alsek River, which flows to the south and on into Pacific, robbing the headwaters to the north. The scientists concluded that the river theft “is likely to be permanent.” Read the full story, with additional photos, here

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Argentine oil company trying to duck $1.38B NJ cleanup?

Scott Fallon reports for The Record:

Argentina’s state-run oil company is trying to avoid paying a substantial portion of the $1.38 billion Passaic River cleanup by declaring one of its key subsidiaries bankrupt, state lawmakers said Thursday.

The move by the company, YPF SA, has prompted a rare joint hearing by the Senate and Assembly environmental committees tomorrow in Lyndhurst to discuss ways to ensure the company pays its fair share of one of the largest toxic cleanups in U.S. history.

“They’re simply trying to duck their responsibilities,” said state Sen. Christopher “Kip” Bateman, R-Somerville, who co-sponsored a resolution with Democrats condemning the bankruptcy filing.

Michael Turner, a spokesman for YPF SA’s subsidiary, declined to comment Thursday.



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