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

DeSmogBlog

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. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2 A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2 A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2 A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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

DeSmogBlog

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.