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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities. The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. Database uses The Carbon Majors database is a critical resource for corporate accountability for the climate crisis.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
At the same time, this growth in mining and manufacturing also presents an opportunity to avoid recreating the harms of past mining and industrial activities. Corporate fleets can wield their collective influence and purchasing power to drive change on a large scale. While the report’s primary focus is on U.S.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 10, 2023
And this growing body of evidence is highly relevant to climate accountability lawsuits against fossil fuel polluters, proposals to mandate and standardize corporate climate disclosure , and shareholder resolutions up for votes at major oil and gas companies’ annual meetings this spring.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Nearly a decade later, there’s been some progress creating local sustainability plans, but Big Ag corporations are still hogging water and bullying smaller groundwater users. Two corporate agriculture behemoths called Bolthouse Farms and Grimmway Farms that grow carrots and other produce. So, who are these big water users?
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 4, 2024
We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Local farmers are connected to their communities in ways large, extractive corporations aren’t.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 28, 2023
But agricultural practices, especially in California, must be updated to survive the future. Can we put a dollar amount on industrial agribusiness’s negative impact? Extractive industrial agribusinesses are not local farmers, they do not live on the land nor do they form part of local communities.
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