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Gas Utility Sends Kid-Friendly Activity Books to Oregon Schools

DeSmogBlog

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”.

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The community perspectives that shaped the HEAL Act

Front And Centered

Held between October 2019-September 2020, these conversations reflect the voice of communities most burdened by pollution as a result of their race, health, wealth, and where they live, among other key factors. The HEAL Act aims to make EJ the priority of state environmental laws and programs.

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'Legal and environmental folly': Is a backlash already brewing over the government's fracking and deregulation drive?

Business Green

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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

DeSmogBlog

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. A few days later, RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Understanding Overlapping Corporate Disinformation Campaigns is Critical to Telling the Full Story About Science Denial

DeSmogBlog

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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