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UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'

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Read time: 8 mins Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Tags: cancer alley Human Rights environmental racism Formosa petrochemical development

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Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights

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Read time: 7 mins Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate crisis that they say threatens their human rights. United States

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New York City Climate Strike in Photos

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The global climate strikes took place before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City. Tags: climate strikes climatestrike Greta Thunberg An estimated 250,000 strikers marched in New York City from Foley Square to Battery Park. . The opening session of the summit is on Sept.

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Oil Industry Set Agenda During Climate Summit Meeting with Big Greens

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Read time: 9 mins Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil fuel companies discuss how they want to respond to the climate crisis.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

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Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 How the climate crisis will crash the economy.

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Since Paris Agreement, Global Financial Firms Have Sunk $745 Billion into New Coal Plant Development

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Read time: 3 mins BlackRock, Vanguard, Citigroup, and JPM organ Chase are among the top global financers of new coal development, according to new research presented during the United Nations climate summit in Madrid. Tags: Paris Agreement blackrock Vanguard Citigroup JPMorgan Chase Coal Power Generation Finance

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Engineering for the Earth

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Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, meet Next Generation Science standards. The curriculum unit, Engineering for the Earth , covers Earth systems through lessons on natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms.