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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Greentown Labs Names Kevin Knobloch as Chief Executive Officer

Greentown Labs

and Houston, Texas, August 17 , 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, today announced its Board of Directors has appointed Kevin Knobloch as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective Sept. Knobloch was formerly Chief of Staff of the U.S.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: What’s the Difference?

Green Business Bureau

Customers demand it. Employees demand it. Partners and vendors demand it. A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”. “I

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

Dubbed one of the “ Desperate Dozen ” imperiled species by conservationists, the diamond darter won a new lease on continued existence in 2013 when its name was added to the federal government’s list of protected endangered species. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). We would love to chat!