Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, ecological psychology views humans as interconnected with the larger systems of nature and subject to its laws, and by virtue of our conscious awareness to be stewards of our shared planet. challenges students with the origins of the discipline, along with new research and current conversation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. . Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It spans economics, health, social justice, and human rights.". Earlier in the month, the UN published a report concluding that the world had missed every one of the flagship biodiversity targets agreed by governments in 2010 in Aichi, Japan. Degradation of nature is not purely an environmental issue.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Between 2010 and 2018, the industry announced $200 billion worth of investments in new and expanded petrochemical projects across the country, projects reliant on fracked gas. Should these plans proceed, the petrochemical industry would account for nearly half the growth in oil demand by 2050. Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The impacts would be similar to the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, “in terms of level of releases and resulting damages to the environment, health, and safety,” the Multnomah County report concluded. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. This unaddressed inequality needs transparency and political accountability.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. The number of companies voluntarily reporting on environmental risk is rapidly increasing and regulations making this type of disclosure mandatory are beginning to be written into law. Insight Engines.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 18, 2024

BHRRC has documented 631 allegations of human rights abuses since 2010 for seven key minerals used in electric vehicles, rechargeable batteries, and renewable energy technologies. Across its entire data set going back to 2010, labor violations including 53 work-related deaths make up a quarter of all allegations.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

APRIL 2, 2021

This is the fifth in our First 100 Days series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the early days of the Biden administration. The S , or social, concerns a company’s values and business relationships, including human capital topics like employee health and safety, as well as diversity and inclusion efforts.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

APRIL 2, 2021

This is the fifth in our First 100 Days series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the early days of the Biden administration. The S , or social, concerns a company’s values and business relationships, including human capital topics like employee health and safety, as well as diversity and inclusion efforts.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. We can present the data, but what you do with the data is ultimately a political decision,” he says.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

The ratio between earnings of a CEO and a worker is 243 to 1 as of 2010 (Stiglitz). In a sentence from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ( Combating Poverty and Inequality, 2010 ), ‘‘globalisation and liberalisation have not created an environment conducive to sustainable and equitable social development’’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young activists that fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. He is also concerned about health problems in black communities due to poor air quality. Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip. org after a powerful cyclone devastated her community.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. One farm in the south-central region of the state grows oysters and mussels alongside kelp.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Forum has the support of over 60 MPs and peers, including Liz Truss and five recently appointed cabinet members, including Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey, International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, and Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke. Political Climate change is the real danger.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. million advertising blitz in favor of another disastrous energy law. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

Corporate Capture of Environmental Politics. Today, it’s easy to find political leaders – on both the political right and left – working on behalf of corporations in energy, finance, agribusiness, technology, military and pharmaceutical sectors, and not always in the public interest. In the U.S.,

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The spectacle of waiting for so many white people to collectively see the cost of their political choices to themselves is an expedient way to go mad. This conscious creation of “inter-racial jealousy” led to Jim Crow laws and murderous white riots against Black businesses.

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