Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. I struggle to find the right metaphors to make this real, but let’s think in terms of medical health. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

organizations working to build greener, more affordable communities for all. Financial and housing stability supports better health and educational opportunities for children compared to children coping with overcrowded homes, disadvantaged neighborhoods and disruptive moves brought on by high rent prices or eviction.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

This pandemic is exposing all of us to significant traumatic distress and placing us at risk for a host of stress and trauma-related health consequences in addition to the risk of contracting coronavirus. we can deepen our resilience and co-create resilient communities, organizations and a more resilient society.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It integrates three key concepts: environmental health, financial viability, and social and economic justice. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. There is a common misconception that sustainable agriculture is synonymous with organic agriculture.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Prior to each session we work with our coalition of community of color organizations across the state to create policy priorities, as we did with our 2023 Just Transition Agenda , that truly represent and are accountable to our communities’ needs and solutions. Late morning.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California’s right-to-repair law. At a recent White House event, Apple even pledged to honor California’s new law nationwide. That said, these laws have some key limitations. Illustration by Nico H.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2024

“We have had enough of them telling us about jobs and the economy when our health is suffering,” Barbara Washington, one of the founders of Inclusive Louisiana, stated before the hearing began. She warned school board members in 2023 about the cumulative health impacts that exposure to toxic emssions can have, especially on children.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

We hope to see you at our CURB campaign events and count on your support again during the legislative interim! Our advocacy in 2025 will continue to push the legislature to meet their goal to fund frontline communities and seek meaningful improvements to community health.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’re one of the organizations that has contributed to calling for this six-month moratorium on approvals,” Mark Mallett, a founder of the Elk Point-based advocacy group Wind Concerns, told DeSmog. We’re not in any way legally or officially related to any other organization,” he said. We are not here to destroy the meeting.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A report released from the London Flood Review concluded the capital’s Victorian sewage system can’t handle the extreme weather events. Sewage in water is not just a growing public health concern but has the potential to cause harm to the natural environment. The best of these models was able to correctly predict an event 91.5%

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

"Finance professionals make up a fraction of the global population but are positioned to make and incentivize decisions that can shape the trajectory of the global economy," observed Ogechukwu Anyene, energy consulting manager at PowerAdvocate, who was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at GreenBiz Group’s inaugural GreenFin event.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

However, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal associations placed strict laws to help limit the use of this potential carcinogen. Long-term inhalation of asbestos fibers can be extremely hazardous as it may lead to numerous health concerns like mesothelioma. When Was Asbestos Banned?

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

“Last year was a really pivotal year in terms of getting past the industry’s big push and their delay tactics,” said Alyssa Johl, vice president for the legal program at the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmental advocacy organization that provides support for these cases.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Atyia Martin has worn many hats—there’s her emergency management hat, her diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hat, her public health hat, even her FBI hat! a partner to organizations in cultivating racial equity. There are lots of folks from the transportation department, the public works department, public health, law enforcement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. One event lasted for 24 hours, another for 74, another for more than 300. Richardson referred questions about the events to a spokesperson for Exxon Mobil, the day-to-day operator of the facility.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Europe’s Green Deal.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

The outcomes of the proceedings, experts say, could significantly advance climate justice and accountability as well as clarify the requirements under international law for governments to curb climate breakdown. Human rights organizations hailed the UN’s adoption of the resolution as a critical step in the fight for climate justice.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably. Sustainability directors and managers often lead a small organization of full-time employees or team of part-time representatives from various organizations within a company.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. just below health, the economy and Brexit. Competition Law and Sustainability Agreements. In the U.S., Here are some important sustainability regulations across the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

By law, California must have 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045, and an executive order signed by former Governor Jerry Brown calls for economywide carbon-neutrality by the same year. Clean energy is the state’s future. California's revised budget included $1.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ From 1990 and onward, Earth Day became a globally-celebrated event.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 24, 2019

In photo: The author and Front and Centered organizer Melissa Bañales (far right) with Nora Landri (far left) and Vera Hoang (middle) for Green-A-Thon door-knocking on Saturday. And as Mary reminds us, our elected officials need to be accountable and and pass laws to ensure that everyone has the right to a healthier life.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Federal Policy Director (FPD) will play a key role in working with us and our 270+ member companies to identify, develop, and secure passage of new laws, regulations, and investments that will accelerate the growth of the clean transportation industry. CALSTART is seeking a Federal Policy Director to advance our work nationally.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. In the U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war. section 7). section 7).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2023

But Buffalo’s organization has been quietly receiving contributions from Canadian Natural (CNRL), one of the largest oil and gas producers in Canada. Those disclosures are required under Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act, an anti-corruption law requiring companies to report payments to governments and other entities.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

The purpose of the environmental justice bill “is to give communities like this beautiful community and its people the dignity and the respect under the law where they are able to defend themselves and protect their families and their communities,” Grijalva said. taking part in the Poor People’s Campaign events alongside Lavigne.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that Landry advised his employees in an email that they could use state laws to claim either a religious or philosophical objection to the mask mandate for students — and to a vaccine if one is required. Crowd at a ‘Freedom Rally’ in Mandeville, Louisiana, on August 14 organized by the St.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ From 1990 and onward, Earth Day became a globally-celebrated event.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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