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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

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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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Bernadette Del Chiaro Wants to Make California Solar a Force of Nature

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. solar industry.

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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.