GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The bill, which was introduced by Michael Quigley and Brian Fitzpatrick in 2012, has been in the pipeline for a long time. Currently, only five states, Nevada, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, have no laws protecting big cats. As such, it has become necessary to have a federally recognized law to protect these animals.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

The problem is intensified by officials failing to enforce environmental laws, for example, the thousands of Black children exposed to lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan in the last decade while officials assured everybody the water was safe. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health website.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and GROSSE POINTE, MI – February 13, 2012 – Hub Ventures (www.hub-ventures.com), a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world, today announced an innovative collaboration with Lakeland Ventures Development (LVD) of Grosse Pointe, MI ( www.lakelandventuresdevelopment.com ).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Italy has become the latest government to strengthen its legislative framework to better protect the environment, with the passage of a new constitutional law that places a formal requirement on the state to safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems and act "in the interest of future generations".

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California. Localized equity metrics to ensure projects reflect equitable progress.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But we were not required to by law. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. With Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute gala, 2012. In China, it was called "The Design of the Circular Economy."

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Portland’s first Tofurky Trot in 2012 was also an informal event, with just 43 racers. She’d just graduated from law school, and she, a few of her classmates and Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott put the race together. But the tradition took hold, eventually leading to the many Turkey Trots of today.

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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Richard is a California native who moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona in 2012. Karlyn hopes to obtain a Graduate Level Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and Law and continue doing community organizing work. Richard Gallon, Arizona Campaign Manager. Writing poetry, drawing and watching Scandal.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study , and pose a global health crisis , with plastic chemicals linked to preterm births , heart attacks , and cancer. The laws eventually passed in 39 states. So where did the three arrows go wrong?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

However, in order for there to be a health risk from asbestos, it is necessary for a person to inhale asbestos fibres. Due to the significant health risks, employers have additional legal responsibilities, over and above other health and safety law, towards employees who are potentially working with asbestos.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. Instead of supporting biomass by forcing utilities to pay extra for the electricity, Turner said it might make more sense for the state to pay directly for the things its citizens want: forest health, smoke reduction, and carbon sequestration.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs. “We

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But we were not required to by law. ” Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. ” But it is hard to make these kinds of changes. It is really hard.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. For example, US law prohibits interstate commerce of cannabis and derivative products, meaning that whatever is sold in a given state must be grown and produced there.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives on Wednesday shows the program has been a boon to public health, too. These gases react with other compounds in the atmosphere to form tiny, inhalable particles that are dangerous to human health.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 24, 2019

Thankfully, the focus of the first Green-A-Thon I volunteered at with South Seattle-based climate justice organization Got Green, was sharing with communities about building resilience in the face of these health hazards, as we prepare for another likely smoky summer ahead.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Though the bay’s health is far from perfect, and agriculture nutrients remain a challenge , progress accelerated after the U.S. Lake Erie, on the other hand? “And

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

47 in 2012. Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). More equal societies have.3 3 Gini coefficients or below and most unequal societies have.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And going further back than that, he was among the Tory rebels who pushed for the government to stop backing onshore wind in 2012. An undercover investigation by Greenpeace in 2012 caught him boasting that he was working to write opposition to wind energy “into the DNA of the Tory Party” and campaign against the UK’s climate goals.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. I didn’t know about forestry.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. million from 2012 to 2022 from donors who separately donated a combined $584 million to a network of organisations promoting climate denial in the US between 2003 to 2018.

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