DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Excerpt from the Task Force Report on Environmental Pollution, November 1964. Read the entire document on DocumentCloud.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Those least able to mitigate climate pollutants and adapt to the changing climate are those who will suffesSaasr the most. The level of government least able to mitigate and adapt is the level of government most affected. Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change. Climate change is a cruel phenomenon.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

Nichols oversees Coastkeeper’s living shorelines program, a project in partnership with California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton, that restores ecosystem structures like oyster beds and eelgrass meadows, which protect shorelines from waves, erosion, and sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Noise and air pollution have made life difficult for nearby residents. He doesn’t smoke or drink, and is convinced the pollution from the LNG plant is the cause of his family’s declining health. But Isle de Jean Charles is rapidly eroding into the Gulf of Mexico, battered by hurricanes and rising sea levels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26 Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.

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GreenBiz

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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. ” The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.

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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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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting technology.” The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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