AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Government agencies managing vast forests can now leverage satellite imagery to monitor forest health more effectively, overcoming traditional challenges like limited resources and personnel. Why Is Traditional Forest Health Monitoring So Difficult? For example, consider the following areas some countries must manage: The U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

Greentech Media launched in 2007 before the solar industry as it looks today even existed. All those trends helped fuel a mega-shift in energy: Wind and solar are now the fastest-growing generation technologies in terms of additions to the U.S. electric grid. Thanks for the memories, GTM readers! Meanwhile, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Some individuals will take voluntary action and that’s important.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Geophysicist | Fervo Energy | Houston, San Francisco, Reno, or Denver. Decarbonizing the energy sector is an urgent challenge, and with the right technology, geothermal energy can play a central role. Fervo Energy has developed technology to make geothermal power scalable and cost-effective.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 25, 2021

Director, Technology, Data, and Systems | Clean Power Alliance | California. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is Southern California’s locally operated non-profit default electricity provider for 32 communities within Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the 5th largest electricity company in the State of California.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

After the turmoil of the last several months, residential solar is now coping with a new threat — one the industry says is existential. Net metering credits home solar customers for the power they sell back to the grid if they produce in excess of their own usage. now has more than 2.4 NERA's solar petition.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

The group claiming status as a ratepayer advocacy group in its attempt to get federal regulators to override state net metering regimes has finally revealed the identity of one of its members. But that revelation appears to strengthen claims by its opponents that it is representing energy industry interests rather than those of ratepayers.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

In my 15 years of experience on agricultural sustainability policy, I’ve never seen this much energy behind land sector policy,” said Chris Adamo, a lobbyist for the Paris-based food giant Danone, at a conference in May. “It This particular power station was supposed to be special — a carbon-neutral facility.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. And there are still no federal standards for ambient benzene exposure — the amount that people who live near industrial facilities can safely breathe as they go about their daily lives.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

The NTSB has no enforcement capability, so its recommendations are often ignored by the rail industry. The rail industry has frequently argued that ECP brakes don’t work and are too costly. An industry spokesperson recently said the modern brakes, “have a ‘significant’ failure rate and lengthy repair time that makes them impractical.”

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Donald Trump is the world's most powerful advocate of the industry that is at the heart of the climate crisis. The fossil fuel industry has known this for decades. They buy politicians and political outcomes and Trump is by far the most powerful politician the industry has ever owned.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He nonetheless empowered federal prosecutors to investigate “irregularities,” but the 16 federal prosecutors in charge of monitoring the election told Barr there is no evidence of substantial voting irregularities. Even Trump loyalist Attorney General William Barr said he didn’t see evidence of massive voter fraud.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

In their place he has given foxes the run of the hen house hiring fossil fuel industry advocates rather than qualified individuals. Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity.

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