DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The multinational company has so far avoided scrutiny of the project by hollowing out regional environmental organisations and sharing erroneous information with the scientific community. Tags: Anglo American Chile COP25 Carolina Schmidt

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Front and Centered and HEAL Act endorsers representing doctors, faith leaders, environmental justice advocates, labor unions, farmworkers, scientists, family, immigrant and civil rights leaders and anti-poverty groups believe that everyone deserves clean air and healthy water.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

17 with the Environmental Defense Fund to continue the reduction of toxic chemicals in its products. . Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. The company announced a partnership Aug.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a comprehensive cleanup plan for the waterway. But environmental health experts have specifically called into question the EPA’s proposal to raise acceptable levels of benzo(a)pyrene, or BaP, and similar compounds in the Superfund’s sediment. AP Photo / Elaine Thompson.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

What do lawyers at major environmental nonprofits do? Large environmental nonprofits can play a key role in shaping policy and regulation around cleantech. Lawyers at environmental nonprofits typically use their knowledge of the energy regulatory landscape to advance the goals of the nonprofit where they work.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is no justice without accountability,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement. Chicago’s lawsuit brings “another powerful player into the game,” remarked Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The project started with the support of a technical advisory group (TAG) and fundraising by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Phase One: A Statewide Collaboration.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2020

The company announced a partnership this week with the Environmental Defense Fund to continue the reduction of toxic chemicals in its products. Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The disproportionate toll that COVID -19 is taking on the Black community brought environmental justice issues to the forefront during 2020. Tags: cancer alley environmental justice

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

17 with the Environmental Defense Fund to continue the reduction of toxic chemicals in its products. Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. The company announced a partnership Aug.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters. We are taking the lead’.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure. Environmental Justice resources by state from Alabama to Wyoming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

The CO2 pipeline buildout is shaping up to be the biggest environmental justice insult ever. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Because where will these pipelines be built?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The last 12 months have also been a stark reminder of how far we are still from intersectional justice: environmental, racial, political. Tags: Air Pollution Lobby Groups air pollution joe biden Biden Doanld Trump After the year that’s been, it’d be a fool’s errand to guess what 2021 holds in store.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In his announcement, Richmond, a Democratic representative in Louisiana for most of the heavily industrialized region stretching from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, made no mention of his constituents’ ongoing battle for environmental justice. Tags: Cedric Richmond joe biden cancer alley RISE St.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator Andrew Wheeler , a former coal lobbyist, proposed maintaining, rather than strengthening, national air quality standards for soot, a type of air pollution with serious impacts for heart and lung health. Andrew Wheeler environmental justice COVID-19 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is under fire for a Thursday speech laying out a vision for the agency that critics warn would unleash untold environmental devastation should it come to pass. Environmental Protection Agency Trump Administration environmental justice Mustafa Ali

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In March, over 300 climate and environmental justice advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress, arguing that subsidizing carbon capture “could entrench the fossil economy for decades to come.”. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019. Figuring the Federal Funding. ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, in 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. David Roberts, author of the Volts newsletter , drew a connection between natural gas price spikes and the fossil fuel’s environmental impacts on Twitter. In the U.S.,

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. The details: The Plant Vogtle expansion project, which Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power owns a majority stake in, has been under construction since 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, said the considerable public funding flowing into CCS is especially egregious.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

US President Donald Trump has tapped oil industry executive Jeffrey Bossert Clark to lead enforcement of environmental regulations. Despite the GOP's complicity, the courts have succeeded in reigning in many of this administration's environmental assaults.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV) pulled the plug on his permitting reform bill on Tuesday, ending what would have been a major overhaul of bedrock environmental laws that date back to the 1970s. But the effort to rewrite environmental laws was also fiercely opposed by a broad coalition of progressive Democrats and climate justice organizations.

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