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

GreenBiz

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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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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Using Planet Satellite Data to Monitor Threats to Wildlife and Ecosystems

Planet Pulse

Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), an international conservation organization founded in 1858 focuses on maintaining biodiversity and conserving wildlife and ecosystems in protected areas and outstanding wild places. With Planet, we know that the images are current.”. Trust in data.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". California has done exactly that.

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Pro-geothermal policies being pushed in the US at federal, state levels

ThinkGeoEnergy

Expediting the permitting process for geothermal Dr. Bryant Jones, Executive Director of US-based nonprofit organization Geothermal Rising (GR), provided expert testimony during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing in 12 December 2023 on a proposed amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Campaigners Sued an Oil Major For Climate Deception. Now the Company Is Preparing to Sue Them Back.

DeSmogBlog

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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Indigenous land defender goes missing in Oaxaca, Mexico

AGreenLiving

Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the Indigenous Mixtec group in Oaxaca, very publicly defended her people’s lands from illegal logging. According to the Mexican Centre for Environmental Law, people attacked 65 environmental defenders in 2020 and murdered 18. It’s all about logging. She hasn’t been seen since Oct. What follows?”

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