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Bollinger Motors explores a new market with the DELIVER-E delivery van concept

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When Robert Bollinger founded Bollinger Motors in 2015, he did not follow the typical EV startup formula. Our DELIVER-E van gives commercial fleets the power to go green and save on ownership costs, while neighborhoods will benefit from a reduction in air and noise pollution.”. There will also be variable wheelbase lengths.

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Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds

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The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. Pollution Persists Near Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery.

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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

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degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year

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billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 This third report sparks an alarm for all governments; we need to deploy all the array of policies to really catalyze this transformation.”. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% in just two years from 92.8 to 92 billion tonnes[1]. 5] [link].

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

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Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Image Credit: SkyTruth. Potentially Lethal Levels’.

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‘Drop Fossil Fuels,’ Over 400 Scientists Tell PR Firm Handling UN Climate Talks?

DeSmogBlog

Hill+Knowlton was simultaneously and from a very early stage, also actively representing an array of oil and gas companies on issues of concern to them. Credit: Oil and Gas Climate Initiative. Hill+Knowlton continues to represent fossil fuel clients to this day.

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Addressing Inequities In The Mental Health Burden Of Climate Change

Energy Innovation

These varying mental and behavioral states are measured through an array of methodologies (from surveys to case study analysis, interviews, and experimental studies), further complicating any direct comparison across research projects, even when they are focused on relatively similar scenarios. Source: Marazziti et al. Featured research.