Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps Milwaukee replace harmful lead pipes

3 days 12 hours ago

What’s New?  With more than 70,000 lead service lines, Milwaukee holds the #5 spot in our top 10 cities with the most lead pipes. But the city is taking action to get the lead out. Officials are implementing a robust replacement program that leverages federal funding to focus on neighborhoods that need it the most.  […]

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Lindsay McCormick

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps Milwaukee replace harmful lead pipes

3 days 12 hours ago

What’s New?  With more than 70,000 lead service lines, Milwaukee holds the #5 spot in our top 10 cities with the most lead pipes. But the city is taking action to get the lead out. Officials are implementing a robust replacement program that leverages federal funding to focus on neighborhoods that need it the most.  […]

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Roya Alkafaji

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps Milwaukee replace harmful lead pipes

3 days 12 hours ago

What’s New?  With more than 70,000 lead service lines, Milwaukee holds the #5 spot in our top 10 cities with the most lead pipes. But the city is taking action to get the lead out. Officials are implementing a robust replacement program that leverages federal funding to focus on neighborhoods that need it the most.  […]

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Lindsay McCormick

New Report: How high-quality carbon offsets can lower livestock methane emissions

3 days 12 hours ago

Authors: Erin Leonard and Maggie Monast With more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after its release, methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gasses. One major contributor to global methane is livestock operations — 32% of methane emissions from human activity come from livestock and […]

The post New Report: How high-quality carbon offsets can lower livestock methane emissions first appeared on Growing Returns.
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Breaking Barriers: Empowering Indigenous Voices in Global Climate and Biodiversity Decisions

6 days 7 hours ago

This post is written by Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager of IPLC and Conservation Partnerships at EDF. In the coming days, major international events like New York Climate Week, the COP for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku will gather world leaders to discuss […]

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Breaking Barriers: Empowering Indigenous Voices in Global Climate and Biodiversity Decisions

6 days 7 hours ago

This post is written by Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager of IPLC and Conservation Partnerships at EDF. In the coming days, major international events like New York Climate Week, the COP for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku will gather world leaders to discuss […]

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Guest Author

Breaking Barriers: Empowering Indigenous Voices in Global Climate and Biodiversity Decisions

6 days 7 hours ago

This post is written by Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager of IPLC and Conservation Partnerships at EDF. In the coming days, major international events like New York Climate Week, the COP for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku will gather world leaders to discuss […]

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Guest Author

Breaking Barriers: Empowering Indigenous Voices in Global Climate and Biodiversity Decisions

6 days 7 hours ago

This post is written by Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager of IPLC and Conservation Partnerships at EDF. In the coming days, major international events like New York Climate Week, the COP for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku will gather world leaders to discuss […]

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Boosting EV infrastructure: $521M in grants to expand charging access across U.S. corridors and communities

6 days 7 hours ago

The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program recently announced additional funding awards for Round 1 applicants, totaling $521.19 million in grants to 51 applicants as part of a broader effort to expand electric vehicle  charging. These funds were allocated to urban and rural areas in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and eight Tribal communities. The […]

The post Boosting EV infrastructure: $521M in grants to expand charging access across U.S. corridors and communities appeared first on Energy Exchange.

Marissa Nixon

Boosting EV infrastructure: $521M in grants to expand charging access across U.S. corridors and communities

6 days 7 hours ago

The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program recently announced additional funding awards for Round 1 applicants, totaling $521.19 million in grants to 51 applicants as part of a broader effort to expand electric vehicle  charging. These funds were allocated to urban and rural areas in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and eight Tribal communities. The […]

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Marissa Nixon

Plastics Industry Bill Threatens People's Health

1 week ago
A newly introduced House bill, H.R. 9676 by U.S. Reps. Larry Bucshon and Don Davis, would, in effect, carve out dangerous exemptions to existing federal law so that plastics incinerators can operate without meeting vital protections for people's health and the environment.
amatheny

Plastics Industry Bill Threatens People's Health

1 week ago
A newly introduced House bill, H.R. 9676 by U.S. Reps. Larry Bucshon and Don Davis, would, in effect, carve out dangerous exemptions to existing federal law so that plastics incinerators can operate without meeting vital protections for people's health and the environment.
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