DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

When researching my book, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation (University of California Press, 2024), I found myself wrestling with the river’s complex nature. Louisiana hosts a seafood industry dependent on a healthy estuary and an oil and gas industry threatening that ecosystem.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

We’ve got a pretty sweeping statutory consumer protection on the books,” Slocum said. That premise has begun to fall apart as research on methane has piled up in recent years, examinations that consistently point to an industry-wide problem that is much worse and much more widespread than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” He fears that his constituency, which relies heavily on the seafood industry, will be forced to move since they will no longer be able to make a living.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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