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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.”

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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

Grist

Pilots flew through alpine valleys, where ribs of electric green growth emerged from a blanket of snow. Paragi has for more than a decade monitored the state’s intensive wildlife management programs and believes predator control can be effective. The lichen the caribou feed on is a symbiotic partnership between two organisms.

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The Railroad Industry Loved Modern Brakes and Safety, Until They Didn’t

DeSmogBlog

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. The purpose] is you get a much quicker application, you reduce that kinetic energy involved with that train.”