DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. The Corps is expected to release its final EIS in 2022 after reviewing all of the comments. Packing up and moving away isn’t a viable option for him or many others in the seafood industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Since the arrival of the fishmeal factories, he said, the price of sardinella had tripled, while a study by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that the wholesale price of bonga has increased fourfold. The Gambian factories – Golden Lead, JXYG, and Nessim – are partially or fully owned by Chinese investors.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In Iowa, the company initially filed its permit application with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) in early 2022. The lake provides both seafood and storm surge protection. Tangipahoa Parish Council member Kim Coates, center, at a public meeting in Ponchatoula on October 17, 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Researchers from Washington-based advocacy organization Environmental Working Group said they had calculated that eating one fish in a year equated to ingesting water with PFOS at 48 parts per trillion, or ppt, for one month. Its approach is used to test seafood samples, as well as processed foods.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. Even his great-grandson is getting into the family trade. Always in Cameron,” Dyson said.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Residents living near Lake Maurepas consider the prized ecosystem that offers plentiful seafood and vital storm surge protection to be an extension of their backyard and heritage. Informational displays Air Products set up at a public meeting in Ponchatoula on October 17, 2022. It seems that those efforts are backfiring.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

With a 40% decrease in climate tech venture investments compared to the first six months of 2022—and growth-stage activity experiencing the greatest decline, even as early-stage deals increased —the data could indicate a reshuffling of the ecosystem. Happy Monday! ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

We are tired of this fight,” said Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf. “We Anne Rolfes, founder of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade questioned what the project would do to the seafood industry. We are not a climate sacrifice zone.” Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

explains Heather Trim, executive director of Zero Waste Washington, an organization that helped develop the protocol. Plenty of research has focused on the microplastics found in the guts of fish and seafood, to better understand how that may be taken up through their digestion process. We’re interested in how it affects their brain.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. By bringing the two events together, we will better serve both the REBA and VERGE Energy communities by offering both cross-sectoral content and deep conversations about how to uplevel organizations’ clean energy strategies.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The CRCF’s impact will be felt through the EU’s broader climate and sustainability goals, including its net zero targets, the Industrial Carbon Management Strategy , and the Green Claims Directive that will ban organizations from making net zero claims unless they can provide robust evidence.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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