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

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James Parish town of Gramercy and its mayor, Steve Nosacka, an outspoken supporter of the oil and gas industry. Back in the fall of 2020, RISE. James protest march in Lutcher, Louisiana, on October 17, 2020. So on October 17, 2020, the date of the planned protest, members of RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

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If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Looking Forward.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Looking Forward.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

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“The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas. Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006.

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

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The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company.