Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act. At the Environment Bank we are setting up habitat banks in every planning authority area in order to satisfy this demand by raising ‘conservation credits' that are sold to developers to enable them to be compliant with the new law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., and Zoetis Inc.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What business practices should change?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2020

Facts about CBD In 2018, Congress passed a law legalizing hemp in all 50 states and removing CBD from the controlled substance list. As Health reports, “CBD might be worth trying to manage symptoms of anxiety.” Hemp Roundtable, said in an interview with Health. Third-party testing confirms that the label is accurate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

The facility is located just down the street from a high school football stadium and less than 1,000 feet from a set of city drinking water wells, raising public health concerns from a nuclear forensics scientist about the extent of possible radioactive contamination. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests. “We

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

. • Richard Moore: Environmental Justice Health Alliance ; Los Jardines Institute. Michele Roberts: National Co-Coordinator, Environmental Justice Health Alliance. Marianne Engelman-Lado: Yale School of Public Health. • Diego Guadalupe Loredo: Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services. Kim Gaddy : Clean Water Action. •

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. more than $900 billion in health expenses annually. Because so many plastics and petrochemical products are traded internationally, some endocrinologists and public health authorities believe a global approach is needed.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. It’s one of the worst decisions from foundational Indian law court,” Mills said. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy began making treaties with white settlers more than 400 years ago.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

"Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He was also a technical contributor to the report’s chapter on human health (and was featured on this year’s Grist 50 list ). Yet he knew, from lived experiences, that queer people face many of the same social, economic, and health disparities that other marginalized groups do. Yeah, absolutely.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. We don’t yet have any national rules mandating the sale of electric vehicles or plans to phase out oil and gas drilling. Despite years of talk about a tax on carbon, we don’t have that either.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

California does have a relatively new program, called the Healthy Soils Initiative, whereby state money goes to farmers who implement practices thought to benefit soil health. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. The draft law focuses on a switch to reuse across the EU, and sets reuse targets for the restaurant, takeaway, e-commerce and a number of other sectors.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. It includes the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act of 1972.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Vasant Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis; Basel, Switzerland LinkedIn | Company profile “Vas” Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said. Contributors.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. While former U.S.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In all this administration eradicated 88 environmental regulations designed to protect the health of Americans (researchers at Columbia University say that 100 environmental rules that have been or are being reversed). These cuts have directly contributed to undermining the health of Americans.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that Landry advised his employees in an email that they could use state laws to claim either a religious or philosophical objection to the mask mandate for students — and to a vaccine if one is required. Crowd at a ‘Freedom Rally’ in Mandeville, Louisiana, on August 14 organized by the St. “The

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Trump is overseeing the most devastating health crisis in more than a century and yet instead of developing a plan he blatantly lies telling people "we have turned a corner" even as new cases reach an all time high. In a break from tradition, the New England Journal of Medicine and Scientific American have urged voters to reject Trump.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The level to which Trump and conservative governors thought they could “contain” the virus, and the level to which much of the white populace thought it was protected by privilege — along with its failure to anticipate becoming collateral damage — is the most stunning evidence yet that whiteness itself is a public health crisis.

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