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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. The regrowth then provides homes for a variety of insects and birds, the RSPB said.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 4)

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Recent Changes to California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program, Explained

GreenTechMedia

In its early days until the California Solar Initiative was launched in 2006, the program promoted customers’ onsite solar photovoltaic projects. First, the decision creates a $100 million equity resilience program to promote battery storage as a means of providing backup power for vulnerable customers in high fire threat areas.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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Port of San Diego Advances New Clean Air, Environmental Justice Initiatives

CleanTech San Diego

In addition to reducing GHG emissions, the plan will have co-benefits to public health and quality of life in the region, which complement the Port’s planning initiatives and climate goals. San Diegans will benefit from our new partnership with equitable access to and enjoyment of a safe, healthy, resilient coastal environment.”.

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A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement in 2006. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities.

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