Posted on 11/20/2025 5:48:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health risks to nearby communities, according to a new study.
Researchers identified 5,500 sites that store, emit or handle sewage, trash, oil, gas and other hazards that could face coastal flooding by 2100, with much of the risk already locked in due to past emissions. But more than half the sites are projected to face flood risk much sooner — as soon as 2050. Low-income, communities of color and other marginalized groups are the most at risk.
Researchers did not include all types of hazardous facilities, such as oil and gas pipelines, nor did they account for groundwater upwelling or more intense and frequent storms in the future, which could lead to underestimates. On the other end, the flood-risk model they used could have overestimated the number of threatened sites.
People exposed to flood waters near industrial animal farms or sewage treatment plants could be exposed to bacteria like E. coli, said Sacoby Wilson, professor of global, environmental and occupational health at the University of Maryland during the briefing. Symptoms can include bloody or watery diarrhea, severe stomach cramps or vomiting and fever.
Those living near industrial sites like refineries could be exposed to heavy metals and chemicals that can cause rashes, burning of the eyes, nose and throat, headaches or fatigue, added Wilson, who was not involved in the study. “For folks who are vulnerable, maybe have an underlying health condition, those health conditions could be exacerbated during those flood events.”
Longer term, some of these exposures could contribute to cancer, liver, kidney or other organ damage, or have reproductive effects, he said.
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I wonder what else isn’t happening
Wee B Doomed again!!!
Oh, well. Nothing we can do about it then. Plus I'll be dead anyway.
Ah, the first of today’s climate fear porn.
And, surprise surprise, it’s a repeat.
They’ve run out of ideas (as if they ever had any).
Projection is for 2050...Article is a joke.
Don’t tell me. San Francisco is the largest of all sites. Wee B Doomed.
The enemedia is dragging out all of their tired old crap that didn’t work the first three times they tried it.
Rise of Sea level?
More Global Warming twisted in a Bigger Lie.
BS
These “scientists” are trying to win Bill Gates back....
These “scientists” are trying to win Bill Gates back....
I liked the Popular Mechanics article about the earth ready to BURP and release centuries of global warming
I thought the SUPERFUND cleaned up those sites. Silly me.
Studies like this are so blatantly biased. Especially when they project possible worst-case calamities without telling you the probablity of it ever happening. But sure, let’s turn the modern economies upside down, destroy wealth and prosperity with untold damage to health and well-being now, to avoid something in the future that is unlikely to register as any sort of problem.
They keep having to push things further into the future since none of their predictions have happened.
The boilerplate propaganda is so lame, genAI would be more compelling.
Mix climate, sea, and of course POC victim screed (as if 85% of humanity isn’t already the “color”).
Soon the COP people will leave the rainforest they trashed to make their brief stay mor comfortable and go back to grifting from their fancy offices at home.
Utter BS🤬
Just more AP propaganda trying to spread fear of global warming of which humans have no control over. Solar activity happens.
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