DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Britain is facing calls to impose import controls on China after an investigation revealed that supermarkets are sourcing seafood from companies exploiting forced labour by minority Uyghurs. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). People can make a difference.”

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Maine’s offshore wind energy potential is ranked seventh in the nation, with more than 411 TWh/yr of offshore resource-generating potential. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Katya Simmons, managing director at Nestlé Professional UK & Ireland, said the move was a response to growing demand for plant-based products, which she said was being driven by "two powerful trends: health and concern for the planet".

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces. These substances can enter sewage systems through cracked pipes, evaporate, travel up into buildings, and then seep into homes, schools, and workplaces.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Recently, international attention has homed in on the problem, which is only growing worse as plastic doesn’t decompose but degrades into smaller pieces that will remain in the environment for thousands of years. This data will be going toward larger scale change, the bigger picture, and hopefully that’ll potentially inform some policy.”.

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