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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

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. In 2014, Quebec joined California’s market and several other states and countries have considered or adopted their own versions in recent years.)

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Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal

Grist

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. And our hope is that this sends a powerful signal to other institutions about what investments are acceptable.”.

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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought. A young protester shows support for Juliana v.

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Sensing evolution

Envirotec Magazine

can also enter the bloodstream, with impacts on cardiovascular, respiratory, and other organ systems. The AQ-SPEC program was established in 2014, part of an initiative to make it widely understood that sensor data should not be accepted at face value, and without a proper evaluation of a device’s precision and quality.

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Shell Persists with Effort to Explore for Oil Off South Africa’s Wild Coast

DeSmogBlog

In 2014, Impact Africa, a subsidiary of African exploration company Impact Oil & Gas Limited, was granted a license by South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, to carry out seismic exploration for oil and gas off in an ecologically sensitive region of the Wild Coast that is also home to several Indigenous communities.

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Vermont digs in on incentives to boost geothermal heat pumps

Renewable Energy World

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-public agency that runs incentive programs for clean energy technology, ran a ground-source heat pump incentive program from late 2014 through 2020. During that time, the program provided rebates of up to $10,000 per home for 537 projects, according to a spokesperson for the organization.

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What's the best way to incentivise supplier sustainability?

Business Green

IFC) launched the first sustainability-linked SCF facility in 2014 for Levi Strauss & Co. Over the last year, 66 per cent of the $2.3bn in SCF financing the program provided went to suppliers with sustainability-linked pricing, and the organization expects that percentage will continue to grow, an IFC spokesperson said in an email.