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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. How we invest our resources is really a reflection of our priorities.

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Dark Money, CCS Bonanza, Corporate Comms Offensives: What to Watch in 2024

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog has been pulling back the veil on climate misinformation and disinformation like this since 2006. In 2019, the year of the last election, UK political parties received £113 million, a record figure. It is relatively cheap to fund a political party in the UK, and to wield influence over its policies. In 2022, the U.S.

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The Environment: Looking Towards the Future with UW's Kristiina Vogt

Living Green Technology

But today’s politics are ignoring science data and gives preference to decisions supporting economic gain and/or status. Washington State appears to have proactively worked at managing the disposal of e-waste going back to 2006. By burning fossil carbon (oil, natural gas), we are increasing the flux of carbon into the atmosphere.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. How we invest our resources is really a reflection of our priorities.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture. within the next five to 10 years.

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

DeSmogBlog

Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006. It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows.

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One Reason Russia Might Like To See Bernie Sanders Elected

R-Squared Energy

I am not a political pundit, so I won’t attempt to speculate on who Moscow would prefer as the U.S. Since 2006, net imports of petroleum and petroleum products into the U.S. oil and gas production surged. oil production would fall, but so would natural gas production. Fracking Boosted American Energy Independence.