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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
With air, climate, waste, water and noise pollution, a new Environmental Working Group investigation finds.The new report features interviews with residents, environmental advocates and others in six states, revealing the widespread blight bitcoin mining inflicts in their backyards. In Georgia or North Carolina, noise pollution ruins homeowners’ quality of life. In Montana and Kentucky, carbon and other emissions impair air quality. In Pennsylvania, dirty coal waste powers bitcoin mining operations, and in New York, bitcoin mining relies on a natural gas plant critics say is contaminating their water and air.Here is an important report: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States written for the White House.The report even went so far as to suggest the federal government should limit or eliminate the use of highly energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining methods.Here’s a snippet:… Crypto-assets are digital assets that are implemented using cryptographic techniques. Crypto-assets can require considerable amounts of electricity usage, which can result in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as additional pollution, noise, and other local impacts to communities living near mining facilities. Proof of problems: Bitcoin mining’s pollution toll on U.S. commmunitiesJump to:Case study: Adel, Ga.Case study: Paducah, Ky.Case study: Big Horn County, Mont.Case study: Seneca Lake, N.Y.Case study: Cherokee County, N.C.Case study: Venango and Carbon Counties, Pa.Ban crypto-mines in Cherokee County, North CarolinaIf you are not aware, China has banned crypto-mining and cryptocurrency as of May 2021, mostly for power consumption and environmental reasons. In response, there has been an exponential increase in crypto-mining locations in the US. The ideal location is a rural area, with little or no zoning regulations, inexpensive land, proximity to a large river, and hydroelectric production already in place.Bitcoin mining is a noise pollution menace across the USWe know all about the ecological toll of Bitcoin mining, but a lesser talked about issue is just how noisy its industrial processes are. Residents at Niagara Falls claim it’s ruining their quality of life.For context, the average Bitcoin mining machine produces between 70 and 90 decibels as a by-product, which explains why grievances continue flooding in for City Hall officials nationwide. Not all of these instances are easily resolved, either, with noise pollution regulated at local level by states and ignored by federal governments.Mayors and the board members of our Arkansas cities and towns have been told that they MUST vote for Bitcoin mining near the city or else! They are threatened with
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