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Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Vermont Law

Tutman’s entry into the Waterkeeper realm happened almost by chance: while at an environmental meeting in 2003 , he met a riverkeeper called Fred Kelly. Secondly, for these monied movements to attract investors, they must project a sense of wealth and security; whiteness is often linked to wealth and security.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

He argues that I construct strawmen, promote nuclear energy above other energies, and engage in ad hominem (personal) attacks. felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. In the “concept of triage,” they wrote, “those in the third groups are those who will die regardless of treatment.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

Working under the Clean Water Act framework, Congress appropriated more than $101 billion since 1972 on infrastructure to prevent the flow of pollutants into America’s water, including the construction of new and modernized wastewater treatment plants in the Great Lakes region. The first project will test the idea on 800 acres for five years.