3.3 Trillion more pounds of Death

  

"The study, which was conducted by the Energy Department’s national laboratories, found that  

allowing further U.S. LNG exports would cause  

an additional 1.5 gigatons of planet-warming greenhouse gases  

to enter the atmosphere by 2050.  

That increase is equivalent to about a quarter of the country’s total annual emissions" 

(A gigaton is a unit of mass that's equal to:  

One billion metric tons,  

2.2 trillion pounds,  

10,000 fully-loaded U.S. aircraft carriers,  

1 trillion kilograms)

"The analysis also found that sending more gas overseas would leave less gas available at home, raising wholesale domestic natural gas prices by roughly 31 percent. " 

"Though gas generates fewer carbon dioxide emissions than coal when burned, U.S. gas operations leak enormous amounts of methane" 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/12/17/lng-exports-study-biden-trump/ 

 

"The city’s bygone “king of cocaine,” as he was dubbed, Edmond exuded a charisma that helped him command an army of dealers and mountain of profits. Convicted of federal drug-trafficking charges in D.C. and sentenced in 1990, he oversaw a sprawling operation that smuggled as much as  

1,700 pounds of cocaine into the city each month in the latter part of the 1980s, authorities said.  

They estimated that Edmond raked in about $2 million per week in those years" 

'I am very remorseful,” Edmond said at a 2019 court hearing on the government’s motion. It was the first time he had apologized to D.C. residents for the wave of addiction and violence he helped bring to their city."  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/17/rayful-edmond-iii-dies-dc/ 

"Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission for mental illness, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.

The research, involving more than 200,000 people in Scotland, found an increase in exposure to nitrogen dioxide in particular was associated with a higher number of people being admitted to hospital for behaviour disorders and mental illnesses." 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/17/pollution-exposure-linked-to-mental-health-hospital-admissions-says-study

  

"Higher cumulative exposure to NO2, PM10, and PM2.5 was associated with a higher incidence of hospital admissions for all causes."