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For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 9, 2021
BOSTON Environment America Research & Policy Center launched a new campaign Tuesday calling on Walmart to publicly commit to installing solar panels on the roofs of nearly all of its more than 5,000 locations across America and over the parking lots that surround them by 2035. Walmart has built its reputation on getting customers what we need, at reasonable prices. Now the company has a chance to enhance that reputation by moving to protect customers health and quality of life, said Susan Rakov, Chair of the 100% Renewable Energy Campaign at Environment America Research & Policy Center. “Walmart’s giant rooftops and parking lots are perfect places to generate clean, renewable energy, which will not only power the stores, but also clean up the air and create an emergency power source for the surrounding community. That’s real efficiency, and a service to all just the kind of innovation that a smart retailer like Wa
For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 9, 2021
DENVER The Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it will begin its comprehensive review of the department’s oil and gas leasing and permitting activities as required by President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis. This review, which follows a pause on new leasing activity by the administration, will begin with a public forum on March 25, featuring presentations from stakeholders.
The executive order directs the department to assess the costs to the climate and environment of federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices in light of the department s responsibilities as steward of public lands and oceans.
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Slowdown of toxic waste cleanup endangering American’s health, consumer groups say By Rita R. Robison on February 20, 2021 at 6:53 PM
One in six Americans lives within three miles of a toxic waste site so dangerous that it has been approved or proposed for cleanup under the federal government’s Superfund program.
However, there’s not enough money to pay for the work, according to Environmental Protection Agency data analyzed in a report from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Environment America Research & Policy Center.
The report, “Superfund Underfunded: How Taxpayers Have Been Left With a Toxic Financial Burden,” finds that almost every U.S. state and territory has at least one Superfund toxic waste site, and cleanup efforts are lagging because of budget shortfalls.
The 2.4-megawatt system will make it the sixth-largest on-site producer of renewable energy among the nation’s higher education institutions, based on a 2020 report by the Environment America Research &