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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels. Under Cave’s fearless leadership, Opus 12 has forged partnerships with companies including NASA, SoCalGas and Shell to deliver products such as carbon negative plastics and jet fuel at scale.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

Additionally, the strengthened tax builds investments in spending accounts for operations, capital, and stormwater prevention and cleanup of toxic pollution of sites, explicitly allowing use of funds for affordable housing sites developments. One percent of this goes to community participation grants.

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What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

Elemental Excelerator

PFAS and PFOA, pharmaceuticals, micro-plastics). Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Renewables have made remarkable advances in recent years, and are now cheaper than fossil fuels for 85% of global power generation. Digital and financial solutions. Systems enabling water reuse and resource recovery.

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Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

Reimagining the resource-intensive processes and materials used to make all that stuff — especially GHG-emitting steel, concrete, and plastic — will be one of the defining opportunities of the coming decades. Aviation might be the single thorniest issue to tackle in our quest to reduce and eventually eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

It’s not just about natural vistas and pristine mountains but also air quality, waste systems, stormwater runoff and whole urban systems. . Last summer, Ponomareva was part of the team that rolled out SFO’s plastic water bottle ban — the first such ban at a major U.S. million residents. The problem is that right now, we don’t.".