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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7 I was not fully aware of this issue until roughly a year ago, when I wrote a column about it, and I’ve been working for environmental organizations for 25 years.

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

Legal Planet

The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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Concealing Plutocracy

Legal Planet

The LA Times’ inestimable Sammy Roth reports on the attempt of California’s investor-owned utilities to end “net metering,” whereby utilities must pay customers with rooftop solar for their excess electricity. Rooftop Solar: Banned By Billionaires? And it went down to defeat.

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Why Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Still Resonates Today

Union of Concerned Scientists

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. The book provides strong scientific evidence of the enormous harms pesticides such as DDT pose to public health and the environment. Industry wanted her silenced.

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Does evian Water Greenwash?

Greenbuilding Law

The larger worry should be television advertisements for mass litigation seeking clients who believe they have been misled by greenwashing (. Plaintiffs allege Defendant has engaged in such “greenwashing” through its advertising and marketing of “evian Natural Spring Water” water bottles.”

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The 2022 Qatar World Cup Was Greenwashed: The Swiss Fairness Commission Finds In Favor of Six NGOs Alleging Misleading and Unfair Advertisement by FIFA

Law Columbia

On June 7, 2023, the Swiss Fairness Commission ( Commission Suisse pour la Loyauté ), a non-judicial body competent to receive complaints alleging violations of fairness in commercial communication, found that the International Association Football Federation (FIFA) engaged in misleading and unfair advertising of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.