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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

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“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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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

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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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Luminalt’s Jeanine Cotter: How Solar Loses Without a Diverse Workforce

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For Cotter, this means when Luminalt has an entry-level position to fill, she first goes looking for new hires at community-based organizations, like Asian Neighborhood Design , an architecture and planning nonprofit that provides work training to help disadvantaged individuals become self-sufficient. Luminalt has 23 employees.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

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Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. authorities on 1 July 2014.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

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All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Bureau of Indian Affairs together released a set of four update possibilities.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

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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. He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.