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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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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Some featured “ Susan Spotless ,” a girl in a white dress who would wag her finger at anyone who soiled public spaces with their litter.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests.

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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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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

They killed dozens of dolphins and hurt tourist-dependent businesses in Florida over a 16-month stretch that finally ended in February 2019. After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil.