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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS

Grist

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. The decision to regulate PFAS represents a huge win for public health. That win will come at a cost.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

In the style of so many viral videos, Griffith stood in a leafy thicket flipping through page after page of black-and-white line sketches of trucks, tankers, turbines and other machines (the basis for a soon-to-be grownup coloring book), footnoted with government-agency numbers. It won't be boats, it will be solar farms. Now picture "7.1

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The war to electrify: America can do it

Business Green

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. So many little blue flames that we now know are harming our children, affecting our respiratory health, and aren't particularly good for the environment anyway," he added. Now picture "7.1

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The war to electrify: America can do it

AGreenLiving

In the style of so many viral videos, Griffith stood in a leafy thicket flipping through page after page of black-and-white line sketches of trucks, tankers, turbines and other machines (the basis for a soon-to-be grownup coloring book), footnoted with government-agency numbers. It won’t be airplanes, it’ll be wind turbines.”

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'We need a new paradigm': Can the world ditch 'directionless' growth for a fairer, net zero economy?

Business Green

Yet a more equal society governed by functioning and fair democratic governments would benefit everyone - from the poorest right through to the richest - and would not result in an end to economic growth, but rather "the end of directionless economic growth that is destroying societies and the planet".