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89 groups endorse the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act

Front And Centered

It is only by reducing environmental health disparities and inequities that we can truly HEAL Washington and achieve the greatest positive health impact in our state. Defenders of Wildlife | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition / TAG | E3 Washington | Earthjustice | Earth Ministry . Think lawmakers should pass the HEAL Act?

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EPA might water down its cleanup standards for Seattle’s only river

Grist

percent sliver off of the whole project’s $342 million price tag. According to the EPA, the new standards would require five fewer acres to be cleaned up and would lower costs by about $1 million — a 0.33

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20 Sustainable Business Practices for Your Workplace and Office

Green Business Bureau

However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Using renewable energy can significantly lower your company’s carbon footprint, depending on the dominant power source in your region.

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Addressing Climate Change and Economic Development at the Same Time

Climate 4.0

It should not surprise anyone that the United States is merely in the middle of the pack, as its average internet speed, cost of living, and steadily increasing income inequity, to name three factors, are hardly world beaters given the vast wealth of the nation. Our other research puts a similar price tag on significantly reducing emissions.

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The government has made this crisis worse than it needed to be

Business Green

The impact of droughts, storms, and rising sea levels on economies and institutions that are in no way prepared for the ensuing fall out following decades of under investment and worsening inequality was always going to unleash a new era of instability.

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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Business Green

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. The ban on onshore wind - which around eight in 10 people support - has been a major anomaly in British energy policy given it's both cheap and popular with the public.