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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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Utilities Propose First Regional Grid-Balancing Market in Southeastern US

GreenTechMedia

Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. First step toward an interstate transmission market. The Southeast and Western U.S. Eight more Western U.S.

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How to support environmental justice

AGreenLiving

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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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.

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

Grist

Our hope is that attorney general Maura Healey, if she chooses to take action on this, will hold Harvard accountable for its dangerous fossil fuel investments,” said Sofia Andrade, a sophomore at Harvard and one of the organizers of Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An