DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The project’s supporters, including major environmental nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Audubon Society, say large river diversions are the most effective way to send land-building sediment streaming into the bayou from the Mississippi River to fight land subsidence and sea-level rise.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
That includes providing opportunities for marginalized and disadvantaged communities, including communities of color, that tend to be at greater risk of pollution and climate impacts. Policy & Politics. It's triage at this point," Helvarg explained. "I Pull Quote. Our aim is to restore the blue in our red, white and blue.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
political will. Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 21, 2022
The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959. FRANTA: Absolutely.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 22, 2021
I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.” and PhD in Atmospheric Science.
Energy Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2022
Tackling climate change will require economic and social transformation, but this level of change can only be achieved with political pressure from a critical mass of individuals and communities spanning demographics, socio-economic status, and geographies. Source: Marazziti et al.
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