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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice

Mr. Sustainability

Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route. 26, 2019.

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

DeSmogBlog

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. On November 16, Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Energy announced plans to build an $8.5-billion

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Energy Star. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Energy Star. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.