Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

Those same facts also suggest that our systems – public health, governmental, technological, - are actually more fragile than we thought. We had avian flu in 2005 and Ebola in 2014 and scientists, again including Carroll, warned that we did not develop plans to address any future outbreaks of those viruses. Or any pandemic.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What business practices should change?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing are riddled with environmental and public health hazards. In a statement to DeSmog, Stephanie O’Grady, a spokesperson for ODNR, said that the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

“Even if these projects were having the carbon benefits that they claim to, which is questionable, they’re still having negative impacts on the local community,” said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist at Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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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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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” As the U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Best practice is to organize your documents in an electronic data room hosted on your own server, on your counsel’s Extranet, or via another service provider, such as Box.com or Carta. Kathleen has represented clients within a number of diverse industries including energy, health ??care, Document Checklist 1.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I just happened to get called to this church in the same week the Flint water crisis began, unknowingly during that time, the water was switched over (to the Flint River) in April of 2014. The public health and quality of life for Flint residents were compromised before and after the water crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Project Canary offers to place devices it calls “ canaries ” — sensors that can monitor for methane and other pollutants like volatile organic compounds (VOC) — at the corners of a well site, so that buyers aren’t reliant on self-reported data from oil and gas drillers. ESG’s influence isn’t just limited to investors or Wall Street.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. These emissions are a bigger problem than you might think.

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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. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation. Your most suitable option for carpet and upholstery cleaning within the wider Wellington space, Mrgreencarpets have been delivering great service since 2014. Parents and wh?nau

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. 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.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Today, philanthropy has been strategically accepted for the sole benefit of the ‘organization’, not for others. This lack of return consideration means that, in common law, an agreement to make a donation is an “imperfect contract void for want of consideration. ’’ Between 2001 and 2011, the nonprofit sector increased 25 percent.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. Enforcing laws and regulations is the more direct route. Nathanael Johnson / Grist. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ A 2014 study examined 191 U.S. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ A 2014 study examined 191 U.S. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. It took pressure from the whole world seeing Putin’s “horrific international law and human rights abuse,” Romanko said, for most of them to publicly announce they would pull out of their stakes in Rosneft, Gazprom, or other joint ventures.

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Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS In 2014, the United States Department of Defense, the world’s biggest polluter and one of the largest sources of carbon emissions on Earth, called climate change “ a threat multiplier.” Covid-19 Lesson #3: Habitat Preservation Is Vital to Our Health. They predict that it will happen again.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” So we still want these issues to be addressed.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

To turn her love of nature from a hobby into a career, Adams joined MetLife as a sustainability intern in 2014. Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . Her crowning achievement, so far at least, was building Our Green Impact.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

We absolutely should be moving to establishing independence from fossil fuels, both for geopolitical and for public health and climate reasons,” said Luke Tonachel, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) clean vehicles and fuels group. “I That was a step in the wrong direction, efficiency advocates say. “We No wonder U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

.” A local salon was also tagged with a message accusing Georgia Power of “telling a lie” to residents about the plant’s health risks. The acquired land could tell a story about the environmental and public health costs of inviting a coal plant to town. The Altamaha Riverkeeper has already plotted its next steps in Juliette.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. Droz, who once worked at General Electric and describes himself as an “independent physicist,” has links to some of the key organs of the Right.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So, “we still have parts of HB 6 on the books that have been shown by a court of law to not only have been moved forward illegally — but that remain in place because of the party in power — which are harming human health,” Leppla said. Ohio also remains embroiled in a corruption scandal relating to House Bill 6.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Fires at a fertilizer plant in Bryan, Texas, in 2009 and a fertilizer warehouse in Athens, Texas, in 2014 had calamitous potential but wound up hurting no one. Its purveyors escaped, through a judge’s decision, tougher scrutiny by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. In May 2014, the PUC sought changes that would require energy companies to identify and address all potential failure points, including any effects of “weather design limits.”. Luminant argued against the proposal.

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