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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools. We testified in support of this bill.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. Penzer told DeSmog he believes that it is illegal for Checkoff funds to go toward policy work.

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. A 5–4 court decision went in favor of Goodyear on procedural grounds (i.e.,

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What our Covid-19 Response Reveals about Climate Change

Rinexii

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. Their purpose was to help keep policy makers updated with the latest science on climate change. This also means that as early as the 1980s, the people who would define the laws of nations around the world also knew about climate change.

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? Africa’s inaugural climate summit #165

Climate Tech VC

Lenders still see projects in African nations as too risky, and only 2% of global renewable energy investment has been in Africa, even as nearly a billion people have little or no access to electricity. Almost the entire world population was exposed to global warming at some point between June and September.