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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The diamond darter.

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Revealed: UK supermarkets linked to beef suppliers driving illegal Amazon deforestation

Business Green

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Even before Bolsonaro came to power, fires on embargoed land were a problem.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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The EU Elections Candidates Spreading False Narratives on Food and Farming

DeSmogBlog

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.