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

DeSmogBlog

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” This is because the polluted fresh water entering the salt water environment will kill off most of the brown shrimp and oysters, as well as most of the Bottlenose dolphin that live there.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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We’ve got a pretty sweeping statutory consumer protection on the books,” Slocum said. LNG projects under construction on the Gulf Coast, which will come online in the late 2020s, will expect to operate through mid-century, locking in decades of climate pollution. A few decades ago, it was the largest producer of seafood in the country.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices. Her team also last year set context-based water targets that aim to restore 158 billion gallons of water and reduce about 5,500 tons of water pollutants in priority watersheds.