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A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry

The group will focus on permanent removal, distancing itself from "temporary" solutions and traditional offsets. Quelle: https://grist.org/technology/a-new-alliance-for-high-quality-carbon-removal-highlights-tensions-within-the-industry/...

Science Technology

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk news

In Finland, Indigenous rights take a backseat. Again.

Despite harsh international criticism, Finland passes on supporting Sámi self-governance. Quelle: https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/in-finland-indigenous-rights-take-a-backseat-again/...

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk

news Regulation

Georgians plead with state officials to protect the Okefenokee from mining

Even if the Supreme Court rules to protect certain wetlands, the fate of certain watersheds will be up to the…

Regulation

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk news

Indigenous youth occupy Norwegian energy office to protest illegal wind farm

“We cannot be sacrificed in the name of the green transition.” Quelle: https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/indigenous-youth-occupy-norway-energy-office-protest-europes-largest-wind-farms/...

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk

Equity news Politics Race

Why the White House’s environmental justice tool is still disappointing advocates

New changes “ended up making the program less focused on people of color than it originally was,” one advocate said.…

Equity Politics Race

Accountability Equity news Regulation Transportation

After Ohio train derailment, is your town next? It’s complicated.

In the wake of the Ohio train derailment, towns wonder how to avoid same fate. Quelle: https://grist.org/accountability/ohio-train-derailment-is-your-town-next-its-complicated/...

Accountability Equity Regulation Transportation

Climate & Energy Equity news

Coal plant pollution can be deadly — even hundreds of miles downwind

The coal industry may be dying in the U.S., but its health impacts are not, report finds. Quelle: https://grist.org/climate-energy/coal-plant-pollution-can-be-deadly-even-hundreds-of-miles-downwind/...

Climate & Energy Equity

Energy Health news

Newly revealed records show how the EPA sided with polluters in a small Montana mining town

Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing…

Energy Health

Energy Health news

This “climate-friendly” fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk

Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and…

Energy Health

Extreme Weather news Science

A looming El Niño could give us a preview of life at 1.5C of warming

The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year. Quelle: https://grist.org/science/el-nino-tipping-points-amazon-great-barrier-reef/...

Extreme Weather Science