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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Pull Quote.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. Policy & Politics. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Contributors. Christopher Hazen. Chemicals & Toxics.

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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals

Grist

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. Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.

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Defend Our Future to Testify at Virtual EPA Hearing on Trump Administration’s Refusal to Strengthen Protections From Life-Threatening Particle Pollution

Defend Our Future

WHAT: “ Public Hearing on Proposal to Retain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ,” an Environmental Protection Agency-organized hearing. EPA, both by definition and by law, has a moral and legal obligation to protect all Americans from air pollution that contributes to climate change and damages our health.

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Why are governments failing to act on climate change?

Rinexii

Phil Sharp, Former RFF President has said, “The American people seem far more unified than our political leadership on the need to address climate change. The two major parties worked together to bring clean air and clean water acts into law, and the results were very beneficial for the United States. It’s true.

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. In this documentary, we see how Greta has grown from here.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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