"Michael, a resident of Richmond’s Southside who declined to share his last name, sat on Forest Hill Avenue waiting for a bus Tuesday just before 2 p.m., when a car thermometer recorded the temperature at 94 degrees."
"Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the United States offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found."
"Since December, Nike has lost about 30% of employees who worked primarily on sustainability initiatives, due to layoffs, voluntary departures or transfers to other duties. Already, the company was missing its targets for reducing emissions."
"The Energy Information Agency is starting the process to require cryptocurrency miners to submit energy consumption data after a previous attempt faced legal challenges."
"An environmental group is suing the federal government to force the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess the long-term environmental effects of delays in shutting down inactive oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico."
"The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota."
"Sally Jewell, who served as US Interior secretary from 2013 to 2017, said the climate stakes of the election in November “could not be higher” and that she’s “really afraid for the future of our planet” should former President Donald Trump return to the White House."
"The long overdue federal heat standard proposal gets many things right but will take years to enact, and enforcement will be key, says climate health expert Juanita Constible."
This bilingual conference in English and Russian, July 12, 16 and July 19, is a joint effort between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria BC, the Department of Sociology at the Toronto Metropolitan University and Cultural Survival.
Meet SEJ member Shreya Agrawal! Shreya is a climate journalist and communicator based in Los Angeles, California. She works as an engagement coordinator for the USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication, is the inaugural newsroom fellow at The Xylom and writes for one5c and Sojourners.
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[2] https://virginiamercury.com/2024/07/10/research-shows-heat-exposure-disproportionately-affects-black-richmonders/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bp-owned-firm-selling-carbon-credits-trees-aren-t-danger-study
[4] https://floodlightnews.org/bp-owned-company-is-selling-carbon-credits/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nike-pledged-shrink-carbon-footprint-it-just-slashed-staff-do
[6] https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-layoffs-sustainability-climate-change
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-launch-new-attempt-gather-data-energy-usage-bitcoin-mining
[8] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072024/us-energy-information-agency-bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-data/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greens-sue-interior-claim-it-ignores-harms-idle-offshore-rigs
[10] https://apnews.com/article/abandoned-offshore-oil-wells-interior-lawsuit-8064a85e624ab8fbe5cc83c28e5910a9
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/marathon-oil-reaches-241-million-settlement-epa-nd-violations
[12] https://apnews.com/article/marathon-oil-north-dakota-emissions-settlement-9ddb9e71588064587bbe26d014afe4d6
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-return-could-see-climate-progress-unraveled-sally-jewell-says
[14] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-07-11-trump-return-could-see-climate-progress-unraveled-sally-jewell-says/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/will-1st-us-heat-protection-standard-safeguard-most-vulnerable-workers
[16] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072024/federal-heat-protection-standard-vulnerable-workers/
[17] https://www.sej.org/calendar/3-day-virtual-conference-and-sharing-circle-indigenous-languages-times-climate-change
[18] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-shreya-agrawal-climate-journalist-communicator
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