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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

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Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. We’re going to have another catastrophe.”

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

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Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. New construction in St. Credit: Julie Dermansky. .” Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

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It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. “The 2°C limit is what we call a social construct. ” Sea level rise over centuries or millennia is already guaranteed, regardless of what is done now. It showed the climate risks faced by small island developing states.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. Even if Earth does not have had Arctic sea ice in most of its history, it plays a crucial role in regulating our current climate. But what year is it?!

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8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans

GreenBiz

Last week, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group , an organization of mayors from around the global, launched a Detailed Agenda for Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 to ensure that this crisis propels sustainable innovations instead of a return to old ways. . Below are excerpts from the interviews, edited for length and clarity.

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8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans

AGreenLiving

” Another organization, Climate Mayors , a network of 438 United States mayors, hopes to provide peer-to-peer sharing between American cities to help adapt to and in some ways reverse our changing climate. The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise.