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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

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With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.”

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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?

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Several other companies around the world are also offering to arrange for collecting plastic from where it winds up and doesn’t belong (landfills, waterways, roadsides), and then verify credits, including Plastic Bank and Plastic Credit Exchange. “As ACC’s Dewing counters that “people say this is greenwashing.