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Digging into the complex, confusing, and contentious world of soil carbon offsets

Business Green

Jim Giles explores the deep divisions that are shaping the emerging field of soil-based offsets. This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. The solution, they say, is to scrap the traditional definition of additionality.

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Excavating in potentially asbestos-contaminated ground – FAQs from contractors

Envirotec Magazine

There is significant uncertainty among many contractors and clients over the legal obligations and practical measures required around projects that entail the disturbance of asbestos in soil, according to SOCOTEC, a UK provider of testing and compliance solutions. What activities on site give rise to the highest risk?

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. It is looking at the elephant in the room, and going after it piece by piece.

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Washington’s Environmental Justice Task Force Considering Initial Recommendations

Front And Centered

The Task Force aims to deliver proposals that reshape the way the state government plans, develops policy, distributes funding, and enforces laws. We welcome your input on every single recommendation we are considering, including: Definition of Environmental Justice. What do you think?

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Earth Day 2023: Defend our Future Iowa Partners With Trees Forever

Defend Our Future

While Trees Forever provided the materials and tree planting expertise, Campus Ambassador Lauren Litterer educated attendees on the benefits of tree cover in densely populated cities, why equitable tree distribution is so important, and how the recently-passed climate law is making this all accessible. It definitely put a smile on my face.

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The good, the bad and the tasty of the US Inflation Reduction Act

Business Green

The Inflation Reduction Act is now law and providing the food sector a whole new world of possibilities. As I am sure you've read on every website that ever existed, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law Tuesday afternoon. How does that affect the future of food production in the United States?

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A government program hopes to find critical minerals right beneath our feet

Grist

The initiative was quietly humming along to the tune of about $11 million per year in funding until 2022, when Earth MRI received an additional influx of $320 million , spread out over five years, through the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Our part is the definition of the geological framework where deposits could occur,” Day said.