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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

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While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. As the U.S. Numerous studies show that polluting facilities and their emissions tend to concentrate in disadvantaged communities.

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Recent Changes to California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program, Explained

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Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2013, and 2018 was the deadliest year ever, including the Camp Fire in Butte County that claimed 86 lives. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

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There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." 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 After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. As the U.S. Numerous studies show that polluting facilities and their emissions tend to concentrate in disadvantaged communities.

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Global Briefing: Greta Thunberg backs legal challenge against Sweden's climate strategy

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If the state's climate measures fail now, they threaten our human rights in the future," said 23-year-old law student Ida Edling, in comments reported by newspaper DN. "It The case did not directly rule on whether the project, which first secured environmental approval in 2013, should be approved. That's why we're suing them.".