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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). People can make a difference.”

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August 2020 Cleantech Roundup: EV Charging Investments | Why Were Californians in the Dark?

Clean Energy Trust

August 2020 Cleantech Roundup: EV Charging Investments | Why Were Californians in the Dark? | This month, we’re talking about partnerships between automakers and electric vehicle charging companies, the recent rolling blackouts in California, and why cleantech investing today may fare better than a decade ago. Well, yes and no.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces. These substances can enter sewage systems through cracked pipes, evaporate, travel up into buildings, and then seep into homes, schools, and workplaces.

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Cancer Alley Pastor Finds Hope Amidst the Rubble When Facing Ida’s Aftermath

DeSmogBlog

Residents remain without water and power almost parish-wide. (As John the Baptist Parish remained without electricity, out of 19,752 customers.). John in the church sanctuary to go over the results of air monitoring tests that EPA started in 2016. He believes everyone’s home was damaged to some degree by the storm.

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading!

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Louisiana Communities Already Vulnerable to the Climate Crisis Worry That the Expansion of the LNG Export Industry Could Be Catastrophic

DeSmogBlog

“There is only one road leading in and out so if there is a problem at the facility or with the pipeline we will be stuck,” Mark told me on May 25 while we watched pipeline being built in wetlands from the deck of his brother’s porch, located across a small bayou from his home. Many were without power for over a week.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. America’s Gas Export Boom In order for an LNG project to constructed, it needs to obtain authorisation from the Department of Energy to export to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S.