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Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A Massive Mississippi River Diversion Plan?

DeSmogBlog

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. Two days before the public comment period closed on the EIS statement, I attended a June 1 CPRA public meeting in Buras, Louisiana, a small town reliant on the seafood industry near the tip of Plaquemines Parish.

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Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining

DeSmogBlog

These critics worry whether the ships doing this mining will dump back into the sea the huge amounts of toxic-waste and sediments produced by grinding up and pumping the rocks to the surface, impacting larger fish further up the food chain such as tunas and contaminating the global seafood supply chain. .

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The UK Government’s Food Strategy Lacks Teeth

DeSmogBlog

For instance, they don’t require that public sector meals should reflect a climate-friendly diet, i.e. more low-carbon vegetables and pulses and only small amounts of organic or free range meat and dairy products. Unfortunately these proposed standards fail to join the dots between diets and the climate and nature emergency. Concerning’.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

DeSmogBlog

Residents living near Lake Maurepas consider the prized ecosystem that offers plentiful seafood and vital storm surge protection to be an extension of their backyard and heritage. I’d like my life back.” ” Tension was palpable at the public meetings I attended related to Air Products’ project.

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Compelled to action: 5 sustainability trends impacting food retail

AGreenLiving

Now, federal government regulations and 17 states have enacted or are enacting laws aimed at eliminating HFCs. Nonprofit organizations and programs are partnering with food retail to reduce its food waste, while others are implementing their own internal programs. This market segment grew from 14.3 percent to 16.6

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

explains Heather Trim, executive director of Zero Waste Washington, an organization that helped develop the protocol. Plenty of research has focused on the microplastics found in the guts of fish and seafood, to better understand how that may be taken up through their digestion process. We’re interested in how it affects their brain.

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