Solar Pushback: How Power Firms Try To Make People Pay For Going Green [1]
"In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays".
Source: Guardian [2], 05/14/2021
"In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays".
"Chemical giants DuPont and Daikin knew the dangers of a PFAS compound widely used in food packaging since 2010, but hid them from the public and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company studies obtained by the Guardian reveal."
"Improved agricultural practices and widespread irrigation may stave off another agricultural calamity in the Great Plains. But scientists are now warning that two inescapable realities — rising temperatures and worsening drought — could still spawn a modern-day Dust Bowl."
"The federal agency largely failed people on farms, in restaurants, and in meat-processing facilities during the pandemic. Labor leaders hope Cal/OSHA’s Doug Parker will steer the ship right."
"Newly released emails reveal that lawyers and lobbyists for mining companies, developers and the agriculture industry had a hand behind the scenes in shaping Arizona’s newly adopted law on clean-water rules for rivers and streams."
"The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a Trump-era rule that overhauled how the agency evaluates air pollutants, a move the Biden administration says will make it easier to enact limits on dangerous and climate-changing emissions."
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday."
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"Growing up in a conservative Christian home and school, Kyle Meyaard-Schaap learned a lot about scripture and its values but 'almost nothing about climate change', he remembers."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/solar-pushback-how-power-firms-try-make-people-pay-going-green
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/solar-power-us-utility-companies-kansas
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chemical-giants-hid-dangers-forever-chemicals-food-packaging
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/pfas-forever-chemicals-breast-milk-us-study
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-warms-could-us-face-another-dust-bowl
[6] https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-the-climate-warms-could-the-u.s.-face-another-dust-bowl
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/osha-failed-protect-food-workers-can-new-ca-director-keep-them-safe
[8] https://civileats.com/2021/05/11/osha-has-failed-to-protect-food-workers-can-a-new-director-keep-them-safe/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/emails-show-mining-industry-home-builders-shaped-arizona-water-bill
[10] https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/05/10/mining-industry-developers-changes-arizona-water-bill/4997814001/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-revokes-trump-era-policy-loosened-clean-air-rules
[12] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-science-technology-environment-and-nature-government-and-politics-f394883794b097ea35d4786bc0eb0f03
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-watchdog-calls-improved-enforcement-after-decade-long-decline
[14] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/553364-epa-watchdog-calls-for-improved-enforcement-presence-after-decade
[15] https://www.sej.org/job-opening-frontier-group-policy-analyst
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/young-evangelicals-push-build-bigger-choir-loft-climate-action
[17] https://news.trust.org/item/20210512114414-9x34n/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/drought-dries-california-rivers-salmon-take-truck-rides-sea
[19] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/drought-dries-california-rivers-salmon-take-truck-rides-sea-2021-05-13/
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