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

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James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S.

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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. These compounds can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms and on the physical environment (by affecting atmospheric processes and climate).

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

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Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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

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Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

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The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases. In June of 1988 James E.