Energy and Cleantech Council
JUNE 8, 2022
As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2022
In 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) joined the international Race to Zero Campaign, which aims to reach net zero carbon emissions around the world by 2050. This is despite Edwards’s continued support for numerous carbon emitting projects, including proposed LNG facilities and Formosa’s proposed petrochemical complex in St.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. However, supporters of the project have a comeback for statements like this too.
Grist
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The permafrost continues to thaw, potentially releasing up to 600 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And some fish populations in the Bering Sea, which supplies about 40 percent of the American seafood catch, have begun to migrate north as waters warm, threatening food webs.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Five advocacy groups, for instance, wrote in a recent letter to Congressional Democratic leaders, “The inclusion of a carbon tax … gives a green light for the biggest climate scofflaws to pay to pollute and maintain a harmful status quo. Damaged seafood company facility in Dulac, Louisiana, on September 17. Credit: Julie Dermansky.
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