GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

He compared it to the Indian Act of 1876, a notorious federal law that attempted to erase the culture of First Nations peoples. Credit: CNRL disclosures Neither Buffalo’s organization nor CNRL responded to detailed questions about the financial contribution. “I The IRC received $250,000 from CNRL in 2022 alone.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Danielle Purifoy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

UNEP boss warns 'there will be no jab to prevent seven million premature deaths caused by air pollution each year'. Those are the headline findings from Regulating Air Quality: The first global assessment of air pollution legislation , which was launched this week ahead of the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies.

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 23, 2020

She has worked with tribes, community groups, and environmental organizations to fight fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens community safety, pollution reduction goals, treaty rights, and indigenous ways of life. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Growth Management Act (GMA) is a state law that requires this work, and it’s really important! The GMA is a state law that determines how cities and counties plan to manage population growth by dictating what can be built where, which type of projects should be prioritized, and how the jurisdiction will be livable for its residents.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For decades, many mining activities have caused acid runoff into essential water and food sources, noise and air pollution, and even the uprooting of native communities. percent across categories such as fair labor, occupational health and safety, community health and safety, security arrangements and cultural heritage preservation.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Many of the policy recommendations were sculpted from the stories gathered at the ‘community conversations’ we hosted – in person and then virtually – with ten different Front & Centered member organizations across the state.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

“Last year was a really pivotal year in terms of getting past the industry’s big push and their delay tactics,” said Alyssa Johl, vice president for the legal program at the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmental advocacy organization that provides support for these cases. So far, this approach has seen some modest success.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

When Gilbert Blue Feather Rosas secured the grants to electrify school buses and add solar power to the Stockton Unified School District, he helped to reduce air pollution for many thousands of school kids, cut demand for fossil fuels, save money for the district, and build a community of supporters along the way.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.”

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

It’s having government agencies enforce public health laws without fear of repercussions from powerful polluting industries. Members of Washington’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Task Force are continuing to learn about life on the frontlines of climate change and pollution. Some of the main issues raised included: .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “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.”

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. Among the accomplishments of these organizations over the last 20 plus years was an early focus to bring new clean energy technologies to underserved communities.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last summer’s deluge in London dropped an equivalent of two month’s rain in just two hours, and those flash floods precipitated popped tops on manhole covers and sewage pollution warnings spanning from British streets to Welsh beaches. How Earth observation and geospatial data can help tackle sewage and safeguard the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new target levels for air pollutants to be included in the Environment Act, including a reduction in the PM2.5 Particulates and health. and PM10 (PM4.25

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

There was a lot on the line this year as the legislature was responsible for, among other things, creating a new two-year state budget, responding to climate and environmental challenges, and tackling other issues related to housing, homelessness, drug possession, and the ongoing mental health crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. ENACTED – Set Strong, Comprehensive Climate Pollution Limits (HB 2311) .

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Organizations that hold or manage large events such as conferences, business meetings, concerts, fairs, weddings, or any large get-together need to consider the impact these events have on the planet. If you’re an event planner, you should organize your events so that they impact the community, the environment, and the economy positively.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The trade association “played a key role in creating climate denialist organizations such as the Global Climate Coalition,” Franta said. California’s lawsuit provides major momentum in the race to protect a livable planet,” Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, said in an emailed statement.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law. The Senate version still allows major polluter Spokane’s Waste-to-Energy incinerator to qualify as a clean energy generator. A similar loophole should be eliminated for a Vancouver-based gas power plant. The goal should be clarified as a mandate.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. In the U.S.,

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On Tuesday, Indigenous leaders and the regional pan-Amazon Indigenous organization protested outside Ecuador’s Annual Conference for Oil and Energy (ENAEP). We call for climate justice,” Nemo Andy Guiquita, a Waorani Indigenous leader and Coordinator of Women and Health for CONFENIAE, said. “We are here, again. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Food is responsible for over a third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and industrialised agriculture is the leading cause of wildlife decline, antibiotic resistance and pollution. Currently the buying standards stipulate the purchase of higher-welfare eggs (“enriched” cage eggs) and UK-sourced meat, for example.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With microplastic pollution everywhere, the findings are sobering. UMC Utrecht scientists presented their research at the Plastic Health Summit in Amsterdam on Thursday, warning that immune cells that attack microplastics are three times more likely to be damaged beyond repair, consequently prompting an immediate inflammatory response.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for: economic growth, improved livelihoods, job creation, and ocean ecosystem health. Without clean water, health is compromised, and lives are endangered. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution.

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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.

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