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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Enviva got support from Northampton County Commissioners before opening the plant in 2013.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

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In particular, controversy has dogged California’s cap-and-trade policy , which took effect in 2013 and regulates roughly 450 entities accounting for 85 percent of California’s emissions. The law directed state officials to consider the impacts of climate policies on "communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution."

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Stricter Air Pollution Laws Needed, Says Coroner in Ella Kissi-Debrah Inquest

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A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013.

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Time to get real?

Envirotec Magazine

It’s a general truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, an idea clear to Lord Kelvin over 100 years ago¹ and enacted by health & safety professionals when they carry out risk assessments (or check the effectiveness of controls). However, the Code has a special legal status. References.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India.

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Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism

GreenBiz

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges. Indeed, Eugene F.

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Solar and wind’s competitiveness over coal is accelerating, analysis shows

Renewable Energy World

Those include health and environmental impacts from sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate pollution , as well as the plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that add to human-caused climate change. And while people who suffer health impacts aren’t easily identifiable, the harm is nonetheless real.