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Ten Remarkable Plants and Fungi Named by Science This Year
In 2024, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded 172 new species of plants and fungi across the globe, from England to Cameroon.
'Nature wins' for 2024
In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has upped the need for renewable energy, but the environmental and social costs of building such massive projects remain.
Farewell to the Caspian Sea
Carnivorous Squirrels Discovered in California
Scientists have discovered that in addition to seeds and nuts, some California ground squirrels also eat voles.
Common Sense in the Commonwealth: How Shapiro Can Protect Pennsylvania
With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvania must step up now more than ever. As Attorney General, Governor Shapiro stood up for families living on the frontlines of fracking with his 2020 grand jury report recommending measures to protect the public health of residents, including increased setback distances. As governor, Shapiro has addressed some critical pollution concerns, including prioritizing plugging orphan and abandoned oil and gas wells using federal funding and spearheading an apprenticeship program with United Mine Workers of America to train unionized labor to plug wells.
However, Shapiro also forged a partnership with a criminally charged fracking company, CNX, lending credibility to the company’s false claims that fracking does not harm public health despite hundreds of peer-reviewed studies to the contrary.
In 2025, we need Governor Shapiro and Pennsylvania legislators to further lead on climate and public health. Leaning on the federal government and federal funding is no longer a viable option. Instead, the Shapiro administration and legislative champions must be willing to take proactive steps to safeguard Pennsylvanians’ public health and climate as leaders in their own right. They can do so by:
- Expanding No-Drill Zones
Earthworks has spent the last decade proving that oil and gas operations pollute nearby homes and entire communities. In fall 2024, Earthworks joined several other groups as part of the Protective Buffers PA coalition to file a petition before Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB) requesting the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) increase setback distances between fracking wells and homes, schools, hospitals, drinking wells, and surface waters. Requiring polluters to operate at a distance less harmful to people’s health, especially children, is a common sense approach that follows the science and the governor’s grand jury report. A state rulemaking would also build upon growing public support for such measures, including recent local expansions of setback distances in Cecil Township, Washington County.
- Developing a Strong Methane State Plan
The Shapiro administration can lead the way in reducing methane pollution from active oil and gas facilities by developing a strong state plan for the EPA methane rule finalized in December 2023. The EPA rule requires monitoring for leaks from wells regardless of size, using zero-emission process controller devices, eliminating routine flaring at large wells, and creating a Super Emitter Program. However, Pennsylvania needs a strong state plan to ensure these pollution prevention, inspection, and repair advances become a reality. A strong state plan would safeguard significant advances laid out by the EPA in 2023 and tailor the plan to Pennsylvania’s specific needs. Earthworks encourages the DEP to:
- Require quarterly instrument-based leak monitoring at all well sites that are not considered complex;
- Include separators – which separate gaseous and liquid components of oil and gas well streams – in the definition of complex well sites and hold them to monthly instrument-based inspections;
- Ensure quick repair timelines for detected leaks to reduce immediate harm to public health, safety, and the environment;
- Supplement EPA’s Super Emitter Program by creating a process for DEP to use new satellite data to reduce methane pollution, as well as to connect impacted residents with necessary methane monitoring and health resources and expertise to protect public health better;
- Create protective standards against flaring of associated gas for wells of all sizes that require thorough proof that other options are infeasible before flaring is allowed;
- Submit the SIP proposal as soon as possible, before the 2-year deadline of March 8, 2026.
A strong Pennsylvania state methane plan can realize and surpass the health and environmental benefits of the EPA methane rule, demonstrating strong Pennsylvania climate and public health leadership.
- Increasing Bonding Amounts for Oil and Gas Wells
Every year, oil and gas wells are improperly abandoned across Pennsylvania, venting hazardous pollution into surrounding communities, heating our planet with methane, and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill for cleanup. While Earthworks supports using federal funding to plug orphan wells in Pennsylvania in cases where no responsible party can be identified, more can be done to stop the abandonment of wells and accompanying pollution. In fall 2021, Earthworks joined several other organizations to file petitions before the EQB requesting that bonding amounts for unconventional and conventional wells be increased through a DEP rulemaking to reflect the true cost of well plugging. Over three years later, we are still waiting for EQB to release a report in response to our petition on unconventional well bonding. On the conventional side of the industry, Earthworks is involved in active litigation. It has been long since the Shapiro administration’s EQB prioritized this issue and built on its successes by well-plugging across the commonwealth. Without federal leadership on orphan and abandoned wells, Pennsylvania must take steps to address this issue at its root, starting where the nation’s first commercial oil well was drilled.
- Banning the Dumping of Toxic Oil and Gas Waste on PA Roads
The oil and gas industry refers to dumping oil and gas wastewater to tamp dust on unpaved roads as “road spreading.” It is a scientifically unsound, ineffective practice that poses significant, documented environmental and public health risks. Oil and gas waste contains varying amounts of heavy metals, radioactive materials, and other pollutants, some of which are carcinogenic and threaten human health and the environment.
In 2018, the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) agreed to pause permitting the practice, but the agency stopped short of issuing a formal ban. As a result, the dumping continued. Between 2018 and 2021, operators self-reported dumping 3,259,405 gallons of wastewater on Pennsylvania roadways.
A 2022 report commissioned by DEP found the wastewater is only about as effective as rainwater as a dust suppressant and can even destabilize roads, leading to more dust than an untreated road. The report also found that runoff from roads treated with wastewater contained radium, a known carcinogen. The report’s co-author ultimately concluded, “While we must be willing to accept the tradeoffs between the benefits of dust suppression and the drawback of the environmental impacts, this research has found that oil and gas wastewaters only provide drawbacks.”
Pennsylvania needs to do more to prevent the dumping of this waste on roads across the Commonwealth. The permitting moratorium has proven insufficient to deter some waste producers from continuing the harmful practice. Earthworks looks forward to working with community members, legislators, and the administration to ban road spreading for good in the new year.
- Closing the Leachate Loophole
Leachate is a liquid formed when rainwater filters through wastes disposed of in a landfill. The liquid leaches or draws out chemicals or other constituents from those wastes.
Pennsylvania has over a dozen wastewater treatment facilities that process leachate from landfills that accept oil and gas waste. However, wastewater treatment plants where landfill leachate is sent for disposal do not generally monitor for known cancer-causing substances like Radium-226 and Radium-228 and other dangerous contaminants found in oil and gas waste before release into rivers and streams. Unsurprisingly, a 2023 study found higher levels of radioactive materials downstream from wastewater treatment plants that processed leachate from landfills that accepted oil and gas waste.
The Shapiro administration should require anyone who stores, processes, or disposes of residual waste to test leachate before discharge into waterways, ensuring treatment facilities are not polluting the freshwater resources Pennsylvanians depend on.
The prospect of an incoming Trump administration is daunting, to say the least, but states like Pennsylvania are well-situated to fight back. A lot can be done at the state level to protect people and their environment. It just takes political will. At Earthworks, we are excited to work with Pennsylvania’s leadership to capitalize on those opportunities to improve the lives and health of communities.
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Why the YaREN Ammonia Project Should Concern Us All
The holiday season is here—a time for joy, community, and festive cheer. But for the communities of Ingleside, Ingleside on the Bay, and the greater Coastal Bend area, there’s a looming threat that could dampen that holiday spirit. If the YaREN Ammonia Project gets the green light, it’s not jingle bells they’ll be hearing—it’s alarm bells.
The YaREN facility, a project by Yara (a Norwegian company) and Enbridge (a Canadian company), is set to release a staggering 66 tons of toxic chemicals into the air annually. This includes carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide.
These emissions are not just numbers on paper—they pose real health risks to nearby residents. Just three miles away from the proposed plant sits Ingleside Primary School, where young children will be exposed to toxic air with potentially life-threatening consequences. The production of ammonia is a dangerous and complex process, often linked to leaks, transportation accidents, and catastrophic failures. Across the globe, ammonia-related incidents have led to injuries, deaths, and long-term environmental damage.
If that wasn’t troubling enough, Yara and Enbridge failed to show up to a recent TCEQ public meeting in Portland, Texas—an opportunity for them to address community concerns and answer questions.
When a company plans to profit at the expense of public health while refusing to engage with those most affected, they earn a spot on the Naughty Polluter List—and Yara and Enbridge are front and center. For the Coastal Bend, this isn’t just about air quality; it’s about protecting the safety, health, and future of the children and families who call this region home.
In 2024, the Coastal Bend community made their voices heard about the risks of the YaREN Ammonia Project. In 2025, we will be alongside them advocating for accountability, and holding Yara and Enbridge responsible for their actions—or lack thereof.
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Expelling Indigenous Batwa from Their Lands Did Not Help Endangered Gorillas, Study Finds
For decades, Congolese officials have barred the Batwa from their ancestral lands in the name of preserving the critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla. But a new study suggests the Batwa were never a threat to the creatures.
A Texas Two-Faced Two-Step
Talk is cheap. For years, oil and gas companies have publicly talked about their support for the EPA’s efforts to cut methane from the sector (see the quotes at the end of this post). Their support, for better or for worse, helped bolster pressure on the Biden administration to enact strong rules to slash pollution from oil and gas operations, which will protect the health of millions of Americans and take important steps towards preventing a climate crisis.
Now, with Trump ready to take office, two Texas-based industry trade groups – Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) and Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) – are making an aggressive appeal to the incoming president to scrap these efforts.
We aren’t surprised by their tactics. Both of these groups have shown they value industry profits over the health of their fellow Texans. We also aren’t really surprised that the companies that lined up to support the Biden Administration’s important safeguards are now nowhere to be found; that’s a pretty consistent theme.
What surprised us was when we took a look at the members of these two trade groups, we found many of those same methane rule “supporters.” Not only were they members, many of them hold positions of power.
Five members of TXOGA Board have made public statements of support for the EPA methane rules and eight members (including the five that supported EPA’s rules) are members of the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0).
Companies that are members of OGMP 2.0 and serve on the TXOGA Board:- Chevron (supported EPA rules)
- Exxon (supported EPA rules)
- Oxy (supported EPA rules)
- Devon (supported EPA rules)
- ConocoPhillips (supported EPA rules)
- Diamondback Energy
- Coterra Resources
- EOG Resources
Additionally, six companies that stated support for the rules when they were proposed sit on the TIPRO Regulatory Committee which, according to the group, “oversees TIPRO’s involvement on proposed new regulations, as well as meets to discuss submitting new proposals on behalf of the industry.”
TIPRO Regulatory Committee:- Bp
- Coterra
- Oxy
- Cheniere
- ConocoPhillips
- Pioneer
As we have highlighted before, the gap between what oil and gas companies say versus what they do is troubling.
In Texas, polluters don’t even feel the need to hide their two-faced approach to policy or their emissions. For years we’ve documented the issues at oil and gas wells and other infrastructure in the state, as well as sounded the alarm on the outsized portion of emissions coming from the top fossil fuel producing state in the U.S. Now, satellites are helping back up what we have been saying for nearly a decade.
It is time for these operators to stop dancing around their pollution issues and start putting their money where their mouth is. If a company claimed to support methane rules (the list is below), it’s time to step up and be vocal – tell the incoming Trump administration to keep the EPA’s new Clean Air Act methane standards as is.
Claims of EPA Methane Rule Support:BP America: “A well designed rule will help drive material methane emission reductions this decade and beyond. We congratulate the administration on this important milestone and look forward to working together on the next phases of implementation.” – 2023
Shell “We need to restore the direct federal regulation of #methane emissions — and we urge Congress to approve the methane resolution under the Congressional Review Act,” -2021
EQT Corporation: EQT Corporation supports congressional resolutions that would reinstate a rule imposing a federal standard on methane. Company believes the “responsible development of natural gas will help meet future global energy demand as we address climate change together” 2021
TotalEnergies – “My view is that this will not help the industry, but on the contrary it will demonise, and then the dialogue will be even more antagonised…I prefer to have good regulations in the US, for example, in methane I prefer the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] to be stringent . . . I am not in favour of the wild west.” – 2024
Equinor “Equinor has supported the direct federal regulation of methane in the US. Good to see continued progress announced…by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put a framework in place for the regulation of new, modified, and existing sources of methane. Continuing to cut methane emissions is one of the most effective and important ways to address climate change. It is important stakeholders continue to work together as the rule is finalized and implemented.” – 2023
Oxy “We are committed to working with environmental groups and regulators to advocate for environmentally sound state and federal regulations that achieve methane reductions, incentivize early action, and support flexibility and innovation. Oxy used the same approach for EPA’s proposed methane rules and commented in support of EPA’s expanded framework for federal methane regulations. We are reviewing the final rule to evaluate how the EPA incorporated feedback on the proposal. Oxy is committed to responsible environmental performance to proactively reduce methane emissions.” – 2023
PureWest Energy “Looking ahead to 2024, it’s because of these historic investments and partnerships that PureWest is well positioned to comply with the new EPA methane rule. Further, we are encouraged by EPA’s pathway for adoption of advanced methane detection methodologies and believe adoption of this approach for empirical data collection in forthcoming EPA rules, including the methane fee rule and greenhouse gas reporting rule, will encourage and enable these best-in-class investments into the future. We believe the EPA methane rule could play an important role in the clean energy transition by helping to reduce emissions across the energy value chain, without sacrificing reliable energy access.” – 2023
ExxonMobil “Last year we [ExxonMobil] announced our support for the direct regulation of methane emissions for new and existing oil and gas facilities. That hasn’t changed.” – 2019
Cheniere: To maximize the climate benefits of natural gas, we recognize the imperative to minimize #methane emissions across the natural gas value chain. We support effective policies and regulations that reduce methane emissions, including the current Congressional Review Act effort to restore federal regulation of methane emissions. Cheniere will continue to collaborate with industry, academia and the scientific community to deliver cost-effective solutions that reduce methane emissions from the natural gas sector. We also will continue to push for increased transparency regarding methane emissions reporting and data, as well as efforts that create a level playing field with all operators domestically and internationally. -2021
Pioneer Natural Resources: Pioneer has long supported federal regulation of methane if those regulations encourage innovation and operational flexibility. Clear rules would provide certainty for operators and strong environmental benefits. We support use of the CRA to reinstate regulation of methane” – 2021
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Only the impossible is possible now
Eyes in the Sky Will Make it Hard to Hide
Source: Environmental Defense Fund
The oil and gas industry has been polluting local communities and contributing to climate change since Bissell and Drake drilled the first commercial oil well near Titusville, PA, in 1859.
By the 1950s, major players in the industry (including the American Petroleum Institute) were funding scientific research projects focused on understanding the impacts of their polluting activities. One of those projects produced the now famous Keeling Curve – a graph of annual variations and overall accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere – which has become foundational to our understanding of anthropogenic climate change. Industry titans, like ExxonMobil, were even developing surprisingly accurate global warming models as early as the 1970s. Those models indicated that “its fossil fuel products could lead to global warming with ‘dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.'”
The industry could have shared this knowledge. They could have affirmed research that reached conclusions similar to their own. They could have supported data-driven climate policies. They didn’t.
Instead, many in the industry disregarded, questioned, challenged, mocked, disparaged, or downright denied the ever-growing body of scientific data, methods of analysis, or key findings. Some spend millions of dollars to spread inaccurate and misleading information to shape public opinion and weaken public policy and regulatory enforcement.
All the while, the industry kept expanding – at the expense of communities and the environment – exploring new deposits to exploit, clearing new wellpads, drilling new wells, laying new pipelines, and constructing new refineries, petrochemical facilities, and import/export terminals.
Current estimates indicate that in the US alone, nearly 5 million wells have been drilled, around 3 million miles of pipeline have been laid, approximately 130 refineries are in operation, and at least 385 petrochemical facilities are active (with at least 67 new petrochem projects announced or planned). Additionally, there are 12 major oil terminals, 20 LNG terminals (with another 29 proposed or approved), and around 170 LNG facilities.
Health-harming and climate-polluting emissions can occur at every single stage of the fossil fuel supply chain. Earthworks’ thermographers have been using industry-standard OGI cameras to document emissions events for the past decade – we have undertaken more than 5,500 site surveys at more than 3,000 facilities in the US, Latin America, and the UK and filed more than 1,400 complaints with video evidence of pollution to regulatory agencies in the US. Here are some examples of emissions we’ve documented during drilling and fracking activities. On-site tanks also leak and vent emissions directly into the atmosphere. We have documented emissions at gas plants, refineries, petrochemicals, and wastewater disposal facilities. We’ve even detected emissions at temporarily shut-in or abandoned sites.
To address this widespread pollution problem the EPA recently finalized a years-long effort to update the rules and regulations that govern oil and gas industry activities. Unfortunately, aspects of these rules may be undermined before they are even able to take effect fully: after taking office in 2016, Trump slashed more than 100 Obama-era environmental protections, and he has already indicated he intends to do it again when he takes office next year.
But it ain’t 2016 anymore. Many things have changed in the US and around the world.
One crucial change is the deployment of more than a dozen methane-sensing satellites. Some satellites detect and monitor emissions on a continental level, while others can pinpoint the exact source of an emission event. Some scan an area monthly or weekly. Others can scan an area multiple times a day. They all collect and transmit data in real-time, and the view of emissions they are beginning to unveil will leave the industry little to no room to hide – as the satellite network continues to grow, the whole world will come to know the true extent of pollution across the fossil fuel supply chain.
Source: Carbon Mapper
Now, frontline communities, independent researchers, climate advocates, policymakers, and regulatory enforcement agencies have a new tool to detect, quantify, and attribute health-harming and climate-polluting emissions events more quickly, demand they be resolved, and ensure that mitigation or elimination occurs. We all have a new tool to ground-truth industry claims about their emissions and their efforts to reduce them. So, keep your eyes out for new data to hit satellite portals and for organizations like ours to share such data, analysis, and findings with you so you can share them with the stakeholders you engage.
The two best things about this tool are: First, satellites are akin to OGI cameras in that they make pollution invisible to the naked eye visible, seeing is believing, and seeing at a global scale can enable global action. Second, while Trump can and may well take a wrecking ball to a number of policies enacted to protect human health and a livable future, the methane-sensing satellite network is out of reach of his hands.
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As Regulators Re-Evaluate CP2, Earthworks Shows LNG Emissions are Excessive
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) has pulled their authorization to construct the CP2 LNG export facility, requiring an additional environmental review of air quality impact. The order comes in response to a request for rehearing filed by For a Better Bayou, Fishermen Involved in Sustaining Our Heritage (FISH), and other impacted commercial fishermen and landowners which highlighted significant errors in FERC’s authorization of the facility.
CP2, approved by FERC earlier this year, is a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal proposed by Venture Global in Cameron Parish, Louisiana that could emit greenhouse gasses equivalent to 1.8 million gasoline-powered cars — more than the total number of vehicles registered in the entire state. The facility would be located adjacent to the existing Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG facility and two miles from the proposed Commonwealth LNG facility. CP2 is sited for an area that has more low-income residents than 88% of the country.
Earthworks’ investigations have documented extensive emissions including methane pollution from LNG export terminals in Louisiana, with little response from state regulators, undercutting the fossil fuel industry’s argument that LNG can play a constructive role in the energy transition. The Calcasieu Pass facility has already exposed the surrounding community to dangerous air pollution well in excess of permit limits in over 130 incidents since it began operations in 2022. Fishermen have reported a dramatic impact on their livelihoods since the commencement of Calcasieu Pass operations, highlighting the severe negative impact of gas exports on the local economy and environment.
Optical gas imaging (OGI) captures emissions at Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG site in coastal southwest Louisiana.
“Through the lenses of optical gas imaging, we’ve seen massive plumes of toxic emissions, undeniable proof that these projects poison the air we breathe,” said James Hiatt, director of For a Better Bayou. “Modeling must use the latest data from the most local sources to fully capture the harm these facilities inflict on Cameron Parish. Anything less is a betrayal of our community. FERC must choose justice over profit and stop sacrificing people for polluters.”
If FERC follows the science and listens to impacted communities, there is only one logical decision for them to make following the environmental review: to reject the CP2 LNG facility.
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The Era of Accountability for Polluters
We’ve been here before.
Once again, Trump is entering the White House just as major climate regulations have been finalized, threatening to undo the progress we desperately need and fought so hard for. In 2017, Trump entered the White House on the heels of efforts by the Obama Administration to cut methane emissions from new oil and gas facilities. By March of 2017, Trump had ordered his EPA to review the rules and eventually roll back all safeguards for methane.
This time looks to be no different. In 2025 Trump will enter office just as the Biden Administration finalizes a multi-part effort to slash methane emissions from oil and gas — including EPA methane rules that improve upon Obama-era safeguards, penalties for chronic polluters, and updates to an antiquated and flawed emissions reporting system. Once again, Trump has already signaled his intentions to reward the oil and gas industry, which bankrolled his campaign with actions to weaken and altogether gut Biden-ra rules.
While the details of his polluter-friendly intentions are still unknown, it is not hard to imagine the negative impact they will have on our health and climate. So many of us are filled with anxious concern for our future—again.
Now for the good news.
Let us assure you that even though this road seems familiar, things will be different this time. The oil and gas industry may have a friend in the White House, but he can’t hide them from their biggest problem: the truth. We are entering “The Era of Accountability” for polluters, and here’s one way we can ensure Big Oil is held responsible for their methane emissions: pressure from across the pond.
On August 4, 2024, the European Commission set into force unprecedented requirements to measure, report, verify, and reduce oil and gas emissions across the entire supply chain. What made the rules unique, though, was that they did not just apply them to activities within the EU, they also applied to the supply chains outside their borders if the gas would be imported into the EU market. These rules drew a clear line in the sand: if you can’t meet our standards, then we don’t want your gas.
At the same time, U.S. producers and their financiers were preparing to “open the floodgates” for LNG exports. In fact, they have quickly sunk significant time, resources and considerable capital into their plans for expansion that they hoped would nearly triple current export capacity — and these plans were based on the expectation to grow their share of the EU LNG import market.
This is where things get interesting.
President Trump has already promised to dismantle Biden’s action on methane and if he follows through and the EU doesn’t budge on their current positions, then by 2027 — when more stringent requirements for supply chain reporting kick in — U.S. LNG exports to the EU, which made up half of U.S. LNG exports last year, could begin to taper out. Even our best rules, which are currently in place, may not be good enough because they only apply to parts of the supply chain. Plus, by the industry’s own admission, it would be nearly impossible to track the entire supply chain, which is exactly what Europe is trying to address.
Europe’s new regulations cast serious doubts on any plans for the previously mentioned LNG expansion.
And so the truth begins to come to light. The industry claims to be “reducing emissions in line with science” but doesn’t have the receipts to prove it.
If the EU remains steadfast in their commitment to transparency and accurate reporting, they have the opportunity to be a powerful agent of positive change in one of two ways. Either they force the U.S. oil and gas industry to walk the talk on methane emissions reductions and show us the receipts, or they deal a serious blow to an industry that refuses to face the truth.
Some companies may scramble to come up with a new tactic of deceit, others might try their hand at transparency in an attempt to stand out. Whatever happens next, we will gain valuable insight into the truth of oil and gas methane emissions and reduction efforts. The Era of Accountability is upon us, whether Trump likes it or not, and that gives us hope.
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Malaria Cases Rising Amid Worsening Floods
Malaria killed almost 600,000 people in 2023, as cases rose for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization.
A vegan Christmas
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