environmental justice
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Congress Just Held Its First Climate Change Hearings In Years
For the first time in more than eight years, members of the House Committee on Natural Resources came together to formally discuss the impacts of climate change on Wednesday.
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The Latest US Straw Ban Also Comes With A Ban On Toxic Food Packaging
Warning: Food packaging may contain PFAS.Photo: yum9me (Flickr) From Disney World to Seattle, plastic straw bans have become, well, trendy. So it’s perhaps no surprise that San Francisco became the latest city to move toward banning the drink accessory, as well as unrequested napkins and utensils for deliveries and take out, earlier this week (it still…
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Why Climate Scientists Depend On Alaska’s Indigenous Communities Now More Than Ever
Arnold Brower Jr., a 70-year-old Iñupiat whaling captain, can recall his first encounter with scientists clearly. It was 1977, and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) had just placed a moratorium on bowhead whale hunting, after a US government-led population survey determined the marine mammals’ numbers to be dangerously low. But Brower, who has been hunting…
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Another US Government Agency Has Purged References To Climate Change From Its Site
Data-tracking watchdog group, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), has reported dozens of instances where the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has deleted references to climate change from its site.