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Isle de Jean Charles Community Members Moved into the First Federally Funded Resettlement Project in Louisiana Despite Visible Engineering Issues

DeSmogBlog

OCD chose partners it had previously worked with on other disaster recovery projects, including Louisiana Land Trust (LLT), a nonprofit created in 2005 to support buyouts after Hurricane Katrina and Rita through the State’s Road Home Program. This energy efficiency will provide sufficient utility savings at lower costs than solar panels.”.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

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Clean energy for Native American communities. As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

Clean energy for Native American communities. As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent.