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Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs

AGreenLiving

The study findings show that, over the course of 10 climate-sensitive events from the year 2012, Americans endured more than $10 billion in healthcare costs. Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.”

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

Until recently, millionaire hedge fund manager and major Enviva backer Jeffrey Ubben sat on a TNC investment advisory board and on Enviva’s board simultaneously. (In has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. The value of exported pellets in the U.S.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

There’s simply too much manure now concentrated in small areas, environmental advocates argue — a problem the EPA noted in a 2012 report about the water-quality consequences of “the industrialization of livestock production in the U.S.”. Officials are considering proposals to build sites for nearly 30,000 additional hogs.

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Tom Steyer: A Pandemic Is No Time to Pander to the Fossil Fuel Industry

GreenTechMedia

But a better description of that activity is “public investment.” ” Public Investment implies that what you build actually matters, that wasting money is, well, wasting money and, as in all investments activity, there's a dramatic difference between a smart, productive choice and a foolish, unproductive one.