Greenwashing Is Real—Here’s How to Avoid It
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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics
By Joel Makower, GreenBiz, May 11, 2020.
At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, …
As a ‘green stimulus’, Pakistan sets virus-idled to work planting trees
By Rina Saeed Khan | Thomson Reuters Foundation, 28 April 2020.
The effort shows how funds to help families during the pandemic could also help prepare for the next big threat: climate change
When construction worker Abdul Rahman lost his …
The Next Page: From steel to plastic — a future most foul
By Charles McCollester, Pittsburgh Post Gazette op-ed, April 26,2020.
A decade ago, my Pittsburgh Post-Gazette op-ed, “Under Siege by Marcellus Marauders,” raised the alarm that “a thousand Marcellus Shale sites are in the works, with tens of thousands more …
U Penn signs Power Purchase Agreement to supply campus with solar energy by 2023
04/16/20 The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Penn recently signed a Power Purchase Agreement for the construction of two new solar energy facilities in central Pennsylvania to supply campus with renewable energy.
The two solar energy facilities will operate …
Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
By Dana Drugmand • Thursday, April 2, 2020, DESMOG.
Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst …
Op-Ed: Big Insurance Is Climate’s Quiet Killer
By Elana Sulakshana Tamara Toles O’Laughlin . Rolling Stone, April 20, 2020.
A coalition of climate justice organizations is targeting Liberty Mutual for underwriting fossil fuels.
Climate and social justice advocates have long worked to connect the dots between …
Walkabout: Our Earth, ourselves
Earth Day is being recognized on Wednesday, but what does it say that we designate one day to recognize the place that gives us life, oxygen, gravity, the wonder of sunsets and
New Harvard Study Links COVID Deaths and Air Pollution: An Interview with Study Author Dr. Francesca Dominici. + Pgh Post Gazette article on the study.
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists blog, April 8, 2020.
A new study was made public yesterday that sheds light on the connection between COVID-19 health impacts and air pollution. I
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Judge Revokes Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline, Delays Construction
350 NoKXL Promise to Protect Statement, April 15, 2020.
Great Falls, MT — Today, a federal judge ruled to revoke Nationwide Permit 12 for the Keystone XL pipeline, a key water-crossing permit needed to complete construction of the project. The …