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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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World needs ambitious target of 0% new plastic waste by 2040

Envirotec Magazine

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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Thames Water pumped 14bn litres of sewage into Thames in central London in 2023

Financial Times: Energy

Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as effluent pollution climbs political agenda

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BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters

DeSmogBlog

This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. The BBC StoryWorks articles didn’t provide information about the company’s existing polluting activities, or the global need to rapidly scale-down oil, gas, and coal production.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. Environmental capacity.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of "the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.". Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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Major Polluters In ‘Ludicrous’ Push For Carbon Capture at Party Conferences

DeSmogBlog

The group says that its members are “companies across the CCUS industry” including “support services in the energy sector” such as law, banking and consultancy. Carbon capture and storage, and the extension of the technology, CCUS, has been touted by major polluters as a way to cut their production emissions to meet climate targets.

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