Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

We struggle daily trying to find ways to help our shrimpers survive price impacts due to the influx of imported seafood,” said Kerri Callais, a councilmember-at-large in the parish of east St. Bernard and a board member of the Save Coastal Louisiana Coalition. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

If constructed, the diversion is designed to let the river’s natural land building process restore Louisiana’s disappearing marshland. . In a call with me after the meeting, Riley said that it appeared little has been done to include members of the Black community that make their living in the seafood industry in the conversation.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Fisheries which provide a source of income to fishermen, and seafood harvesters, whose livelihoods, social and economic structures will be affected by ocean acidification and climate change. Their intelligent underwater camera scans and automatically evaluates large areas of seafloors, as well as underwater constructions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

The plant announced in December it had constructed 1.37m3 of tank storage capacity, but available storage is expected to run out by Summer 2022, and the imminence of this deadline has added urgency to the situation. On 13 April, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi confirmed the plan’s technical feasibility.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Opponents of Air Products’ proposed CCS project point out that if built, Manchac’s picturesque wetlands, its unique culture, and Lake Maurepas’s productive estuary critical to the local seafood industry will be put at catastrophic risk. New construction in St. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. Bank of Ayudhya, Mizuho Bank and MUFG Bank last month syndicated a $400 sustainability-linked syndicated loan for Thai Union, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, which was two times oversubscribed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Carbon dioxide could potentially be vented to the atmosphere, and the project is expected to produce air emissions during construction and operation. The lake provides both seafood and storm surge protection. The project location is “within a seismically active region and is located close to known faults,” the document says.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Pollution Transportation 110

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. Even his great-grandson is getting into the family trade. Always in Cameron,” Dyson said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Walker explained in an email that they were “required to limit the number of attendees to maintain safety protocols on an active construction site.” I saw a few construction vehicles that served as a backdrop to the makeshift stage where speakers, including Louisiana’s Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

They told me that the facility is already polluting their air, flaring almost nonstop since December, in addition to the noise and light pollution the facility creates, first from construction and now from operations. The uptick in crime and road accidents since construction at the plant started also worries her. “I

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Natural gas Climate change Fossil fuels Seafood 98

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Without good water quality, you won’t have good seafood,” said Toomer, who serves on the Bluffton town council as mayor pro tempore. Bluffton is in the process of phasing out septic systems and constructing a community sewer system — a major investment that requires building sewer lines and hook-ups to each home.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 139

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s the last bastion of the Cajun culture, which is based on seafood and sunlight,” he said. Basically it’s only crawfish that’s left, the last of the seafood industries,” said Wilson. But after decades of development that has changed the ecosystem, he fears it won’t be for much longer. All the others are gone.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Gator Express pipeline under construction in Plaquemines Parish. Until construction began, it was a quiet, open road, next to a sparsely populated rural community that is known as a great place to fish. Highway 23 leading toward Venture Global’s Plaquemines Parish site that is still under construction.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

While several LNG terminals currently under construction will continue, the Biden administration in January put a halt to new applications while the U.S. 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.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

🥩 Pacifico Biolabs , a Berlin, Germany-based alternative seafood technology company, raised $3m in Pre-Seed funding from FoodLabs, Simon Capital, Exceptional Ventures, and Sprout and About Ventures.   Pop-up Jigar Shah , summarizes what’s clear and what’s new in US nuclear. 

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Not only would our drinking water sources be affected, but Formosa’s runoff would pollute major sources of seafood with plastic – sending the plastic straight to your plate. The impact of plastic pollution is why Formosa threatens all communities downriver of St. Signatories of the RISE St.

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Plastics Pollution Seafood Soil 67

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Leveraging Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning to Create Sustainable Fisheries (Panel Discussion): Global consumption of fish and seafood has more than doubled in recent decades, but more than a third of the world’s assessed fisheries are thought to be overexploited.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

🥩 Wanda Fish , a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cell-cultured seafood platform, raised $7M in Seed funding from Aqua Spark, CPT Capital, The Kitchen Hub, MOREVC, Peregrine Ventures, and other investors. The Supreme Court blocked an appeal to challenge Biden’s carbon pricing. Pop-up A very nice profile of a very nice owl. 

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The pandemic didn’t stop Verizon from advancing its sustainability strategy significantly over the past 12 months, with a pledge to become carbon neutral by 2035 and the pricing of a second $1 billion green bond meant to support the construction of renewable energy resources for its telecommunications networks. Sustainable Development Goal 7.

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