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

GreenBiz

Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45. 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. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. Elsa Wenzel. and globally by 2040.

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

This list of top 10 women in solar only scratches the surface of the 100s of women who are making a difference for solar. In an article in The Daily Beast , Mackie said, “We envision a world where families, regardless of income, can have access to clean power and bills they can afford. Stachel , M.D.,

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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS

Grist

This story was co-published with Fast Company. The department explained that in 2012, the federal Environmental Protection Agency had added, for the first time, two types of PFAS — pronounced PEA’-fass — to its list of “unregulated contaminants” that public water systems must test for. The chemicals were at dangerously high levels.

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It's high time for the cannabis industry to embrace sustainability

Business Green

Indeed, cannabis' progressive aura has made it a darling of the sustainability set, embraced as a natural product with multiple benefits for humanity. He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. Policy matters.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions. has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. We will need to create a circular, sustainable feedstock to power our industry into the 21st century. It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities.