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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Nelson has built an environmental platform that aims to increase funding and staffing for the Department of Environmental Protection, as well as increase fines for industries that pollute. He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

Clean Energy. As the state transitions off fossil fuels, the importance of building a reliable and robust clean energy grid continues to increase. The Legislature also passed two budget trailer bills, AB 205 and AB 209 , to provide financial resources to effectuate the state’s clean energy goals.

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Machine Learning and the Future of Sustainability Science

HumanNature

At the same time, we’d like for it to produce less soot, and thus, less air pollution. These models have greatly accelerated the pace of scientific progress in developing clean energy technologies and reducing chemical waste from costly experimentation. 2011): 1239-1249. Hughes, James P.,

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Analysis: Vietnam targets net-zero but struggles to break coal dependence

A Greener Life

Around 2010, Vietnam stopped building big dams, instead favouring coal power, when it released its seventh power development plan (PDP7) for 2011–2020. At the end of November, MoIT said that by 2045, cleaner energy including gas, solar and wind will account for about 75% of Vietnam’s total installed generating capacity.

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