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A Busy Legislative Season in California Adds Up to a More Climate Proof Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

Special session takes on big oil and wins The transition to clean transportation and away from fossil fuels is here. Policies like this will be critical to ensure that the fossil fuels phaseout is equitable and Big Oil doesn’t squeeze every dollar out of California consumers on the way out the door.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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DEP Publishes Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Changing Permit Review Process; Opens Comment Period Setting 9 Public Hearings

PA Environment Daily

DEP published a second notice formally rescinding the previous 2004 Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy. The PennEnviroScreen will redefine environmental justice areas using 32 environmental, health and socioeconomic indicators that are spelled out in a 113-page PennEnviroScreen Methodology Document. Read more here.

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1,900th Post: Climate Change As A Wicked Problem

Edouard Stenger

Since that fateful English class in April 2004, a lot has changed and I have spent thousands of hours reading and writing about climate change. Both solar PV and wind are now cost competitive with fossil fuels. Industry too has to transform itself to shift away from its current take, make, waste model.

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

Reaction PennFuture President & CEO Patrick McDonnell issued this statement on the Senate action-- "Today, the Pennsylvania Senate voted on $2 billion in new tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry. Rather, this is slapdash industrial policy at its worst that will perpetuate Pennsylvania’s addiction to fossil fuels.

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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

This volume has become one of my favorites among the many I have read on climate and sustainability issues since I started back to 2004 (check the list there ). This needs everyone and will benefit everyone (or almost, I am not sure billionaires and plutocrats would benefit from Regeneration and a world without fossil fuels).

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. Excess radioactivity has been detected in the soil near well pads, downstream of water facilities where fracking wastewater is treated, and in landfills where fracking waste is dumped. So these are not one-off studies.