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Opinion: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Needs to Pay for Its Crimes Against California
It’s not just PG&E’s equipment that leaves California vulnerable to fires. For more than 100 years, the company has released carbon into the atmosphere, aggravating the climate crisis that’s turning the state’s forests into kindling.
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We Need a Realistic Path to Decarbonize New York’s Electric Grid
Decarbonization is largely unpredictable, but there are some elements we can predict.
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Why Can’t Taco Bell Tell You It’s Actually Trying To Be Sustainable?
The fast food chain is missing an opportunity to educate its millions of daily consumers on what will truly “make a fiery difference” in saving our planet.
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The Private Sector Push for Environmental Sustainability
Building the organizational capacity to measure, analyze, and report a company’s environmental impact is necessary but not sufficient to reduce that impact. The next step is to build the capacity to reduce impact through changes in work processes and/or technologies.
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Stop Making Farmers Pay to Fight Climate Change
Regenerative agriculture is one way to farm more sustainably. The Farm Bill, up for renewal in 2023, could play a key role in helping this solution come to fruition.
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Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather: Protection, Recovery, and Reconstruction
When a weather disaster happens every hundred years, it is an emergency. When it happens every year, it is a routine, periodic occurrence from which we need to protect ourselves.
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Why We Need to Ban Gas in New York State Buildings
Banning gas connections in new buildings would have significant health benefits, in addition to helping to curb climate emissions.
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It’s Time to Push Congestion Pricing Over the Finish Line
Congestion pricing is close to implementation. All we need is a little political courage to push it across the finish line.
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The Growing Awareness and Prominence of Environmental Sustainability
Growing threats have increased environmental awareness and the prominence of our efforts to ensure sustainable economic growth.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
