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Navigating EHS and Sustainability in 2025: What to Expect From the Incoming U.S. Administration

3BL Media

Companies are under pressure from their customers and investors to deal with climate change. There is no denying that another Trump presidency will stall national efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment, but most U.S. There are also expectations for change on how the U.S.

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Mitigating Climate Change Due to Methane From Natural Gas

3BL Media

Methane is a primary component in natural gas and a contributor to climate change. Why is reducing methane emissions so important to climate change mitigation? This powerful warming effect causes experts to believe that cutting methane emissions is critical to mitigating climate change. infrastructure.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

What is needed is for EPA to request that the National Academy of Sciences conduct an independent assessment of the strengths and limitations of the existing scientific literature relevant to environmental justice policymaking. Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.".

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Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 4, Episode 2 - Nitty Gritty on Net-Zero

3BL Media

So what that means is that even by addressing the smaller seeming sector, which is the heating and cooling sector, we have an outsized influence in how much we can mitigate climate change. The summer of 2014, ten years ago this summer, I was with a group of our company leaders and we were in a room to do a bit of a scenario assessment.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D. Elsa Wenzel. Tue, 01/19/2021 - 00:30. But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints.

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Comment: Water in the US – a decade of turbulence

Envirotec Magazine

During the early 2010s, US states, Native American Tribes, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the regulated community undertook to overhaul the Water Quality Standards (WQS) regulations, before issuing the final rule in 2015.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.