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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45. This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:30. The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice? Julia Rosen. every first Wednesday.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

Julia Rosen Wed, 12/16/2020 – 01:30 Growing up in North Richmond, California, Denny Khamphanthong didn’t think much of the siren that wailed once a month at 11 a.m. every first Wednesday. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes.

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Reservation Dogs

Grist

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. The sun is setting in Glacier County, Montana. Souta Calling Last guns her diesel-powered white GMC pickup truck east on Highway 2. She knows this landscape by heart. A volley of excited yips and whines rings out from the truck bed.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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