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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

But it’s difficult to link specific instances, like what happened at McClymonds High School, to changes induced by rising seas — that would require more monitoring wells to track groundwater levels at a granular level and to map the flow of contamination. It’s likely to be a hot spot where these things will happen early,” Hill said.

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Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining

DeSmogBlog

While commercial mining of the deep seafloor is not yet happening, momentum is building and the world is now seriously entertaining the possibility. It announced plans to submit an application for commercial extraction on behalf of its sponsored entity, the company NORI, as early as 2023.

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Cancer Alley Pastor Finds Hope Amidst the Rubble When Facing Ida’s Aftermath

DeSmogBlog

John on December 12, 2019. Residents remain without water and power almost parish-wide. (As John the Baptist Parish remained without electricity, out of 19,752 customers.). John in the church sanctuary to go over the results of air monitoring tests that EPA started in 2016. Pastor Lionel Murphy, Jr.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. America’s Gas Export Boom In order for an LNG project to constructed, it needs to obtain authorisation from the Department of Energy to export to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

Business interest in plant-based food is growing, but many consumers are still in the dark over the environmental sustainability of their eating habits. Meanwhile, businesses are themselves grappling how to drive sustainable behaviour change. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. That breaks down into a 13.7g