Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. The implication is that the benefits of government policies and other actions that reduce global warming pollution are greater than has been assumed.”. Despite years of talk about a tax on carbon, we don’t have that either.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the 1970s, Dr. 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. This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Definitely. The science has also grown.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

EPA arrived at these estimates after implementing methodological updates recommended by a 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies). 11] Notably, the current report uses lower discount rates than those used in Obama and Trump administration estimates.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

He began by discussing how people of color and economically depressed individuals in this country have always known that they lived in unhealthy, toxic environments, not by choice, but because those in positions of power have gotten away with placing polluting facilities in the communities that often lack the resources to fight these decisions.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Most Americans may want their commander-and-chief to value scientific input but what they got instead was someone who was described by the New England Journal of Medicine as "dangerously incompetent". As the worlds second largest polluter the U.S. Trump will be remembered as a superspreader of both the coronavirus and disinformation.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia. While former U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. The charismatic "unboss," as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn’t lack is pollution. 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.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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. The state establishes an upper limit on greenhouse gas pollution — the cap — and then gives polluters a certain number of allowances to emit the offending gases.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This conscious creation of “inter-racial jealousy” led to Jim Crow laws and murderous white riots against Black businesses. One notable modern moment where white people seemed to collectively realize the poverty of their psychological wage is during the opioid crisis. All while gasping for breath,” she wrote.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy).

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. The charismatic “unboss,” as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz.

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