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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

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Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

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In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Stratospheric ozone depletion – The stratospheric ozone layer in the atmosphere filters out ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

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As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. By energy purchased, we’re referring to electrical energy.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

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or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 petrochemicals will account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand, and for almost 50% of demand by 2050.