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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests.

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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. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.