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Tax credits & rebates make solar more affordable

Greenability Magazine

Since the federal Investment Tax Credit was enacted in 2006, the U.S. If you live in the Kansas City metro area and are not able to install solar, you can still offset up to 50 percent of your annual energy usage with solar energy from a local solar array. Check with a solar installer in your state for eligible rebates.

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A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. He died of COVID-19 on October 27.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows

DeSmogBlog

Radon will break down into radioactive lead-210 and polonium-210, one of the most toxic substances on earth, which was famously used in 2006 by Russian assassins to kill the former spy Alexander Litvinenko. Questions to European Union spokespeople specializing in climate change and also public health also have gone unanswered.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. B Analytics is important as it allows investors, fund managers, non-profits, and large corporations accelerate market change.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

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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Virginia advocates seek path forward for electric school buses despite lack of state funds

Renewable Energy World

The advocacy organization Mothers Out Front has maintained that swapping combustion engines for electric ones is essential to combating climate change because nationwide the transportation sector is the largest emitter of heat-trapping gases. Buses built in and before 2006 are the biggest polluters because the U.S.