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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Many pesticides release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a precursor to ground-level ozone that acts as a powerful greenhouse gas. In addition, they disrupt soil microbes, which play a critical role in the ability of soils to sequester carbon. By degrading soil health, agrochemicals limit the capacity of soils to store carbon.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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.