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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations. Including environmental justice as a criterion for permitting decisions.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.