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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

Corp Watch

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2020, a study in the journal Environmental Epidemiology determined that 5,600 deaths a year were attributable to heat from 1997 to 2006, eight times higher than federal figures. Such smoke is not covered by the Clean Air Act , and there is growing evidence that it is eroding decades of gains in the nation’s air quality under the act.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam. Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St.

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