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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. Calder ventured to Jharkhand in January 2019 to see what she could learn about which suppliers were in compliance with Beautycounter’s human rights and safety standards. "We We are focused on safety for human health. On the ground.

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Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. Seven of the 13 refineries also reported similarly high levels in 2019, the report notes. More than a dozen U.S. The data is supposed to drive action.

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Earthquakes. Drought. Geysers. Permian Oilfield Water Woes Pile up in West Texas

DeSmogBlog

“If we could just convert that produced water to an agricultural water standard, we can create new fields of alfalfa and cows,” Brent Van Dyke of the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts said at a 2019 water conference, Searchlight New Mexico reported. Still, the push to use oilfield wastewater remains strong. “I

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Supervising Environmental Services Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

To see some of the first-rate work ESDers have accomplished in the past fiscal year, review the 2019 Annual Report. Stormwater Management coordinates a wide array of activities, such as education, outreach, trash reduction and collaboration with County wide stakeholders to protect and to prevent pollution into the waterways.

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California Sets $200M Budget for ‘Complex, Multi-Property Microgrid’ Projects

GreenTechMedia

But private microgrid developers argue the plan doesn’t go far enough to allow private investment to bolster resilience for this year’s fire season, or to meet the mandate of a 2018 law calling for tariffs to allow commercial microgrids to flourish. megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

AGreenLiving

First and foremost, that’s our primary platform,” Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. On the ground Calder ventured to Jharkhand in January 2019 to see what she could learn about which suppliers were in compliance with Beautycounter’s human rights and safety standards.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.