Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I come around a corner and all of a sudden there’s this freaking massive mound of wood the size of a four-story apartment building.”. You can find similar scenes across the western United States, anywhere work crews are clearing brush and small trees from forests. The state has removed 1.5 But we’re not keeping pace,” he said.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

The good news is that even though we’re not moving fast enough, sustainability in business is mainstream — a must-do, not a nice-to-do. With both significant bad and good news, I’m frequently asked if I’m optimistic or pessimistic. So, my core takeaway from the year is that there’s a yin-yang of interconnected, opposing forces.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

This story originally was published on Gas Outlook. His father fished before him, and his son and grandson also fish, shrimp, and oyster in the brackish waters where the Calcasieu River empties out into the Gulf of Mexico. By ships, Dyson is referring to the massive tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. For a few years, the Briggs ranch delivered the rural splendor they’d hoped for.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. For a few years, the Briggs ranch delivered the rural splendor they’d hoped for.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In some cases, that means substituting them with new, less-problematic ones. Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain Joel Makower Mon, 10/05/2020 – 02:11 First in a two-part series. And somewhere down that list: cosmetics. But, as the saying goes, all that glitters is not gold.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

On a distant ridge, wind turbines turned languidly. That day, the reservoir, California’s sixth-largest and a source of water for millions of people, was just 40 percent full. Minerals deposited by the receding waters had turned the reservoir’s lower banks white, like the rings on a bathtub. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For new gas, the rules place similar restrictions on all units that operate more than 20 percent of the time. The answer to each of these questions is yes–if good policy enables a managed transition that balances retirement of the old with installation of the new. A shorter version of this article was published in Utility Dive.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

From scenes of scared Americans fleeing to Mexico in The Day After Tomorrow to the Biden administration’s discussion of migration as a matter of national security , climate migration is often viewed by wealthier nations as one of the many negative impacts of climate change. climate report. To be clear, climate migration is already happening.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It The couple wasn’t aware of the permit hearing for Commonwealth LNG’s new export terminal project until I mentioned it to them.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ironton, a small town made up of about 52 black families, 30 miles south of New Orleans, is the kind of place Andrea Declouet, Wilkie’s wife, describes as an idyllic place to raise one’s children. Taking care of their town instead of waiting for help to come was nothing new for them. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

We aim to identify variants of genes that help plants to grow and to find and produce natural products like pheromones that are useful in agriculture or anti-cancer compounds used in chemotherapies. Issues surrounding genetically modified foods can be controversial. The work I do might lead to similar products. NP : I'm not surprised!

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

When Foret was a child in the 1940s and ’50s, her family packed up every fall and moved to a trapping camp at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. When Foret was a child in the 1940s and ’50s, her family packed up every fall and moved to a trapping camp at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. Self-isolation was the norm. "We

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Most of them will only confirm the depressing trend: More and more contaminants are winding their way from farms into rivers and streams. Nathanael Johnson / Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico. The algae are natural. But hardly anyone was here. And no one was swimming.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Outside of being a sustainability nerd, Praneet enjoys hiking in and around the Pacific NW, rock climbing, Latin dancing, and trying new recipes without really following them. Members serving in the 2021-2022 term are: Trevor Anderson. (He/Him/His) Praneet Singh Arshi. (He/Him/His) Jackie Bach.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2020

When Foret was a child in the 1940s and ’50s, her family packed up every fall and moved to a trapping camp at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. When Foret was a child in the 1940s and ’50s, her family packed up every fall and moved to a trapping camp at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. Self-isolation was the norm.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

This story originally was published on Gas Outlook and is the second of a two-part long read on LNG expansion in Louisiana and its impacts on the local community. Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

He wants a hole in one every time — in other words, perfection. He is the seventh generation of his family to live and work on the rolling hills of Garrett Land and Cattle in Arion, Iowa, tending to lush fields of corn and soybean crops and raising cattle for beef. It turned out Garrett didn’t need to do much to get paid.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2022

This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. a 6 April Facebook post by the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), asked. They are powered by oil and natural gas!”.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Here’s how pretty much all rain arrives in the desert climate of San Diego County, the region of 3 million people at the border of California and Mexico. He claimed those puffs could squeeze rain from the stingy clouds above and fill the reservoir anew. If his technology proved to be a boondoggle, the parties agreed, he wouldn’t get paid.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi. Luisa-Marie Neubauer is an activist who is commonly called the German face of the Fridays for Future movement.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As the impacts of fossil fuels and air pollution on the world’s climate became ever more apparent in 2021, it was easy to miss some of the slower-brewing stories of the past year. The volatility in the natural gas market has been off the charts for several months,” one financial analyst told CNBC in November. supplies to demand abroad.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. It may come as no surprise that its findings are dire. But the report also offers reason for hope. decreased by 12 percent.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act—a sweeping package of tax, health care and climate measures—was like the happy ending to one of those heartwarming “Save Christmas” stories. However, two aspects of the new rules are controversial: the price caps and the assembly and sourcing requirements.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

These climate impacts are evident in the growing number of apocalyptic landscapes I’ve documented after record-breaking storms hammer coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico. While the residents own their homes, if the park’s owner doesn’t rebuild the infrastructure that they rely on, Bryant will have to find a new place to start over.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

SDG16 calls for the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies and accountable and inclusive institutions – its goals have never felt more important. Imagine all the people living in harmony," sang John Lennon in his famous vision of a peaceful, borderless world that still resonates 50 years later.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There’s good news on that front: President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have managed to pass historic climate measures that are expected to reduce the country’s carbon footprint between 32 and 51 percent by 2035, putting the U.S. The effects are felt in every region. All of the many extreme weather events that hit the U.S.,

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico. The blast sent Robby Payne into a plastic tank of liquid cattle feed, knocking him unconscious. Payne, a college track star-turned-funeral director, remembers none of it.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The last natural scientist to serve in the Senate was Harrison Schmitt, a New Mexico geologist and astronaut, who left office at the beginning of 1983, when the biggest issue bridging science and politics was the use of nuclear weapons. The Israel-born wildlife ecologist and Democrat is running for U.S. House of Representatives.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. The Inflation Reduction Act finally offers a chance for widespread change.

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