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Meat Industry Using ‘Misinformation’ to Block Dietary Change, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5

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Clean Energy Group announces retirement of Lewis Milford as President; Seth Mullendore named successor

Renewable Energy World

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. That effort led to the creation of another national nonprofit in 2002, the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA).

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A Poisoned Chalice: Curious case of glamour and deterioration of Punjab post Green Revolution

The Environmental Blog

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations. kms of area holding approx 26.12-million-acre

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Reducing The Risk Of Investing In Electric Vehicles For Low-Income Consumers

Energy Innovation

Impacts on health and well-being Low-income households surveyed who had lost access to a car noted, too, that it impacted health care and caregiving responsibilities because they no longer had a car to access medical care or to bring children to school.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

But we were not required to by law. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. In China, it was called "The Design of the Circular Economy." It is really hard.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay. Those records also showed that the EPA has deemed other plastic-based fuels, cleared under a new federal biofuels program, as presenting an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment.