DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

environmental groups large and small have devoted considerable attention to oilfield waste and associated contamination threats posed to public health, the environment, and the industry’s own workers. oil and gas industry has avoided environmental regulations and created a dangerous and radioactive public health crisis. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? Initiative: Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

In June of this year, electric truck-maker Lordstown Motors also filed for bankruptcy protection after its 2002 exit via SPAC. in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In June 2022, EV manufacturer Electric Last Mile Solutions declared bankruptcy just a year after going public through a SPAC deal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States. At a March 2023 hearing of the Senate Budget Committee , Curry testified that calling climate change a crisis was “at odds with professional judgments of climate risk.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Furthermore, the dust from excavation can contain toxic metals, including uranium, that are linked to health problems such as respiratory diseases and birth defects. Not only is the transport sector responsible for around 23 per cent of global CO2 emissions , but road transport alone accounts for a staggering 16.5

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. So in 2002 when a timber company offered the family a hefty payment to allow them to cut some of their trees, they took the deal.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

between 2002 and 2009, when he was governor. The same year, he tried to salvage a measure that would have increased the administrative penalty for electric industry participants that violate state law or PUC rules. Decisions are made every week that affect the health and safety of millions of Texans.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

By law, California must have 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045, and an executive order signed by former Governor Jerry Brown calls for economywide carbon-neutrality by the same year. Clean energy is the state’s future. California's revised budget included $1.5 A COVID-related opportunity?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What is at stake are existing environmental laws and blocking others. Barret could also make it difficult to limit greenhouse gas emissions and protect American laws that give people a legal right to clean air, clean water, a stable climate, and healthy ecosystems.

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