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

GreenBiz

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Hacking solutions to 'time-sensitive' climate problems

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In addition to her former role as a junior atmospheric science software developer at NASA and her current work as a researcher at MIT, Sanjana is founder and executive director of Earth Hacks , an organization that hosts hackathons for college students to combat the climate crisis. . Talk a little bit about what set you on this journey.

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Could Bloom fuel cells be a solution for maritime emissions issues?

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In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. Both companies have a shared vision of powering ships with fuel cells. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

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There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". Some evidence suggests that these fears have come true.

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Government sets out new targets on air quality, water pollution, waste and woodland cover

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While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. by 2040, compared to levels in 2018. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”.

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Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential

GreenBiz

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. The ocean absorbs just under one-third of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which is contributing to a rise in ocean acidification and making it more difficult for organisms such as oysters and corals to build shells. This is a tremendous amount, considering that the United States emitted 5.4

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Top U.S. Law Schools Accused of Creating a Student ‘Pipeline’ into Firms Serving Fossil Fuel Industry

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Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.