"Fashion accounts for 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and is the second-most polluting industry in the world. But in an increasingly climate-conscious society, it is increasingly trying to present itself as sustainable to appeal to customers."
"Garbage clogs the banks of Iraq's Tigris River in Baghdad but an army of young volunteers is cleaning it, a rare environmental project in the war-battered country."
"The Dutch advertising watchdog ruled that a KLM promotion telling customers they could fly carbon-emission free is misleading."
"Urban air pollution in the tropics is rapidly increasing and will lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths if stronger regulations are not put in place, according to a new study."
"The nation’s biggest oil and gas companies have significantly increased stock buybacks and dividends since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, raising questions about whether the firms are using wartime profits to enrich investors instead of curbing Americans’ pain at the pump, three liberal advocacy groups write in a new report shared exclusively with The Climate 202."
"Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault greenlit Newfoundland’s first deepwater oil and gas development project. Questions remain about how that decision was made".
"The plant has applied for a new operating permit. But residents and environmental advocates say pollution from the plant would increase the burden of an already environmentally stressed community."
"A North Carolina power plant that generates electricity from poultry waste and wood chips has touched off a controversy over an operating permit that, if granted, would imperil public health and wellbeing, residents and environmental advocates in the surrounding community say.
"Two bald eagles in the state were found to be infected with avian influenza, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says."
"Residents of Houston’s diverse Southwest Crossing are getting an unwelcome new neighbor: a propane storage facility."
"EPA will probe alleged racial discrimination by two Louisiana agencies in a predominantly Black area, a senior official confirmed this week."
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