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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. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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The many faces of energy resilience

GreenBiz

The term "resilience" can be applied to a vast array of natural, built and social systems and refers to the ability to recover function following a significant, potentially unpredictable disruption. The resulting solar-plus-storage facility, recognized b y a 2019 U.S. Do justice.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. We are focused on safety for human health. On the ground.

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Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Activists met the news with incredulity. If Connecticut continues subsidizing gas heating, the state will not meet its climate goals and our communities will suffer.”.

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

DeSmogBlog

Danish Crown relaunched its website in 2019, pledging to set “a new direction towards a more sustainable future” with a “new brand and narrative” designed to “make it clearer to customers and consumers that Danish Crown has started this transformation.”. Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Global Briefing: India preps $2.2bn green hydrogen incentive package

Business Green

These changes could allow the bank to lend money towards not only supporting some of the world's least developed countries, but increasingly also to highly-polluting middle-income locations, using climate vulnerability as a key consideration in its borrowing criteria, according to the news site.

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The many faces of energy resilience

AGreenLiving

On resilience The term “resilience” can be applied to a vast array of natural, built and social systems and refers to the ability to recover function following a significant, potentially unpredictable disruption. The resulting solar-plus-storage facility, recognized b y a 2019 U.S.