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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil

Grist

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. Because of their ability to bind to proteins, PFAS tend to bioaccumulate — building up in soil, water, and even human bodies.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Of course, not all of this waste is the fault of particular homes. in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. A new lead crisis?

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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

Grist

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.