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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”.

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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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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

Predator and prey dynamics are complex: The calves may have died anyway from injury or disease, and their removal may reduce competition for food and resources, improving the herd’s overall health. Elsewhere in the state, removing 96 percent of black bears in 2003 and 2004, reducing hunting, and killing wolves boosted the number of moose.

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Tofurky Trots offer alternative Thanksgiving races for vegetarians

AGreenLiving

Founded in 2003, it is based in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. She’d just graduated from law school, and she, a few of her classmates and Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott put the race together. Tofurky Trot history The first recorded Thanksgiving Day race took place in 1896 in Buffalo, New York.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. million from 2012 to 2022 from donors who separately donated a combined $584 million to a network of organisations promoting climate denial in the US between 2003 to 2018.