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Sustainable laundry start-up Oxwash cleans up with £10m investment round

Business Green

Founded by ex-NASA scientist Dr Kyle Grant and Oxford engineer Tom de Wilton in 2017, Oxwash describes itself as "the UK's first sustainable on-demand laundry and wet cleaning service".

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

DeSmogBlog

John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. John putting up a protest sign in Reserve, Louisiana, on July 17, 2017.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. Trade and Logistics in Southern California — The Industry, Its Jobs and Its Economic Contribution — A Southern California Industry Study , at ii (May 2017). [4]

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. Trade and Logistics in Southern California — The Industry, Its Jobs and Its Economic Contribution — A Southern California Industry Study , at ii (May 2017). [4]

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

Green Business Bureau

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. With these political shifts comes heightened regulatory demand for businesses to measure, track and report their GHG emissions. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Let's pass a Green Recovery Act

Business Green

Coal, oil and gas investments have been the worst performing assets every year since 2017. If shareholders have oil stocks and auto stocks, they have an incentive to not demand factories go 100 per cent electric because that might hurt their oil stocks. Pensions will be bigger with a green recovery. It's just a question of when.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The coalition demanded that TNC stop “promoting false climate solutions” that “center the financial interests of large lumber, pulp/paper, biomass/wood-pellet and other corporations.”. When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly.

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