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Government warns councils to consider motorists when designing cycling schemes

Business Green

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps accused of backtracking on support for cycling and walking in letter to councils emphasising government's support for motorists. Under the new rules, councils could fast-track new infrastructure without running extensive in-person consultations or advertising in print media, as is traditional for such changes.

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Top Fossil Fuel Ad Ban Critic Runs Group That Got $450K from Oil Company

DeSmogBlog

The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, for example, warned in an open letter last month about the climate impacts of an LNG project proposed by the Nisga’a First Nation. Let’s tone down the outrage maybe a little.” “We are very diverse in terms of our approaches to self-determination and environmental risk,” Marsden told DeSmog.

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Could UK firms' threatened Brazil boycott trigger rethink on Amazon land-grab bill?

Business Green

In an open letter to Brazil's government and lawmakers today, high street names including Asda, Aldi, the Co-op, Greggs, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S, Waitrose, and Morrisons said it was "extremely concerning" the proposed law - which was previously withdrawn a year ago - was being put forward once again by President Bolsonaro's administration.

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Theresa May urges candidates to double down on climate action to tackle cost of living crisis

Business Green

In an interview with The i newspaper , Sharma highlighted how a conservative government in Australia had just lost an election in large part because it was seen to be "tone deaf" on climate and environmental issues "that mattered very much for lots of voters".

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Who gets to decide whether we study solar geoengineering?

Grist

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. Some segments of the media adopted a more frenzied tone, blurring facts in an effort to get clicks.

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Climate resilience: Government urged to seize 'excellent opportunity' to deliver ambitious plans

Business Green

In a letter to Defra sent last week , the Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) Adaptation Committee joined with the National Infrastructure Committee (NIC) and the joint government-industry Flood Re insurance scheme to request a meeting with ministers to discuss the UK's flood and coastal resilience.

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We March Ahead for this Month in Women’s History

Front And Centered

After a day of organizing, grant writing and reports, and rolling up her sleeves steeped in community work, Ophelia Noble seamlessly hops on to the five o’clock video meeting with a grace about her tone, and a disciplined focus on the latest frontline story about the work for justice. “

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