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Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry's Legacy of White Supremacy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives.

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Affordable Housing Developers Set their Sights on Former Toxic Oil Fields in LA

DeSmogBlog

On a busy corner in Vista Hermosa, a neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles, early signs of construction have begun on a 7-story, 64-unit apartment building called Firmin Court. Tags: Los Angeles Los Angeles City Oil Field affordable housing orphan wells

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New Film Dark Waters Shines Light on Chemical Pollution History in Ohio River Valley

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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Founder Profile: Sarah Pinner, Celine Lightfoot, & Kate Sanner | Beni

Better Ventures

This story has been lightly edited for clarity. Who : Sarah Pinner, CEO; Celine Lightfoot, CTO; and Kate Sanner, CMO Location : San Francisco, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, and Chicago, IL, respectively Company : Beni Stage : Seed One-liner : The secondhand search engine that tags along while you shop online Introduce yourselves!

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

We are constantly looking for ways to involve our employees in the story, but in a way that is authentic to Akamai and in a way that seems actionable for them," said Courtney Hadden, senior program manager for corporate sustainability at Akamai, who also participated in last week’s webcast.

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Should Climate Tech Companies Pay For Twitter Subscriptions?

Michael Grossman

You'd think a guy who founded an electric vehicle company and a company that builds solar panels would be all in on helping promote companies pursuing clean technology solutions on one of the world's largest social media networks, right? Does Elon Musk's Twitter Care About Climate Tech Companies? But as the saying goes, "Business is business."

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

So many people and stories. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 And if you really want a sleepless night or two, read this story about “The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California,” published recently in Mother Jones magazine. But lately, I’ve been following the money. percent of GDP by 2100.