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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

Apeel, which got its start in 2012 with a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has attracted funding from many high-profile funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several firms that have championed a focus on climate tech including S2G Ventures, DBL Partners and Powerplant Ventures.

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Climate change fueled the Australia fires. Now those fires are fueling climate change.

Grist

That’s not a record, he said, noting that considerably more carbon was emitted in 2011 and 2012, when very large fires raged across Australia’s northern territory and out west. But in New South Wales, this year’s wildfire emissions are off the charts. That’s already huge. Even a 2 to 3 percent change is a lot.”.

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Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing

Business Green

Apeel, which got its start in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has attracted funding from many high-profile funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several firms that have championed a focus on climate tech including S2G Ventures, DBL Partners and Powerplant Ventures.

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Governments Are Sending Oil Executives to COP26 Despite Climate Pledges. Here’s a Look at the Fossil Fuel Influence in Glasgow

DeSmogBlog

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which in September 2012, affirmed the lower court’s dismissal.

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Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told.

DeSmogBlog

The company’s relationship with Richmond turned sour rather abruptly in 2012. Chevron Newsrooms Begin in South America In launching the Standard, Chevron followed a path the fossil fuel giant had first forged thousands of miles to the south. An explosion at the refinery injured 19 employees.

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. But when Lemery became the Society’s president in 2012, members did not rally around his doctors-as-advocates vision. “A