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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". Policy & Politics. Pull Quote.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

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How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. Harris County, where Channelview is located, was the main beneficiary of this evolution.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

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. To protect its residents from microcystins , cyanobacteria toxins that can sicken people, Toledo has spent $53 million on an under-construction ozone treatment system, $6.2

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

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4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration

GreenBiz

32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. Policy & Politics. Funding for 2021 was one area where the Trump administration and Congress were in full agreement. $32 Pull Quote.