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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S. Potentially Lethal Levels’. The diamond darter.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties.

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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. And child labor, in which small children, often recruited because of their ability to fit into small spaces, do difficult, dangerous work for low pay. School of rock.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations. Jan Dutkiewicz, Policy Fellow, Harvard Law School. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Global Briefing: India preps $2.2bn green hydrogen incentive package

Business Green

According to early documents seen by Climate Home News this week, the multilateral development bank is considering broadening its current "twin goals" of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity to additionally emphasise the importance of sustainability and climate change.

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Supervising Environmental Services Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The Sustainability and Compliance Division’s initiatives are implemented through four sections: Energy and Green Building Programs, Environmental Compliance Safety, Legislation, Policy and Grants, and Water Pollution Control Air Compliance. Water Resources Division (WRD). There shall be no substitution for the experience.