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I Was Targeted Under Louisiana’s Felony Trespassing Law for Reporting on Police Working for a Pipeline Company

DeSmogBlog

I’m an investigative journalist and I’d been arrested twice in 2018, both times for allegedly trespassing on what’s known as “critical infrastructure,” a felony under a then-new Louisiana law that — at the urging of the oil and gas industry — redefined pipelines and their construction sites as critical infrastructure. (In In the U.S.,

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British supermarkets threaten to boycott Brazilian products over proposed land-grab law

Business Green

Echoing the concerns of environmentalists and scientists who have vehemently opposed the bill in recent months, the British businesses claim the law "would encourage further land grabbing and widespread deforestation", endangering the survival of the Amazon, the world's climate goals, and the rights of Indigenous communities.

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Illegal logging possibly contributes to majority of mislabeled wood in US markets

AGreenLiving

Loggers, for instance, could harvest trees from a threatened or ecologically vital forest ecosystem , then mix wood species to cover up the illegal logging activity. Following transport to the lumberyard, species origin of the timber logs and boards are further misrepresented to allow illegal wood in the supply chain.

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Certain environment authority decisions are based on trust in citizen data

Envirotec Magazine

This may concern logging or exploiting land and water areas for road construction, wind turbines, emissions, industrial installations, or other types of interventions that have consequences for the environment. The study is based on interviews with officials around Sweden who use citizen’s sightings to make decisions on land and water issues.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Illegal timber trade hits record high

Business Green

Governments urged to double down on efforts to tackle illegal logging ahead of COP27. The influential think tank estimates more than two thirds of recent tropical deforestation has taken place in breach of local laws and regulations.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In an email response Enviva’s director of communications and public affairs María Moreno wrote that Enviva follows all applicable environmental laws, including the U.S. Industrial logging-dependent communities are some of the most poverty stricken places in the South. What’s wrong with that? Got to have something.”. It’s just not true.