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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM 2.5 – the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).

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Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports

Envirotec Magazine

The study shows that the greatest investment need is in Australia, to supply the Asian markets, with large production clusters also predicted in Chile (to supply South America), California (to supply the Western USA.), 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants.

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Buys Goodwill

DeSmogBlog

If you see a sponsorship deal, you assume the [organization] you identify with has positive feelings about it and is benefiting from the company sponsoring it.”. I am an AGU member and I feel disgusted that my professional organization still maintains these ties,” says climate scientist Peter Kalmus. “To That is classic misdirection.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University.

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China Finances Most Coal Plants Built Today

DeSmogBlog

With air pollution choking some of its largest cities, it has shuttered dozens of old coal facilities in recent years, and has subsidized renewable energy projects, both domestically and globally. Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo, a GreenBiz 30 Under 30 recipient, is determined to make sports and organizations more sustainable. She was appointed as the first Environmental Sustainability Manager at New York Road Runners, a non-profit running organization whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. residential sector.