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Michael Phillis | February 5, 2021, 7:13 PM EST President Joe Biden s promise to secure environmental justice is an ambitious effort to achieve long-sought equity for poor and minority communities that experts say could maybe, finally, put teeth behind the lip service that has been paid to the concept.
The president made a multifaceted approach to environmental justice the concept of addressing the disproportionate environmental harms faced by largely poor, minority communities an integral part of his climate change strategy as outlined in an executive order signed about a week after he took office.
That climate change order is intended to force the government to address the outsized burden disadvantaged communities have borne from pollution, often stemming from industrial facilities in those areas. It directs the federal government to step up enforcement of environmental laws, commits to steer clean energy investments toward those communities
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative sets net zero CO2 emissions goal
Published Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, 9:49 am
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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative announced Thursday a goal to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
ODEC has also set an interim goal to reduce its carbon intensity by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
The wholesale power provider of 11-member electric distribution cooperatives will be the second generation and transmission cooperative in the country to set a net zero carbon goal.
Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?
by Justin Catanoso on 4 February 2021
Under President Donald Trump the U.S. made moves toward legally enshrining the burning of forest biomass to make energy on an industrial scale as a national policy. That same policy has been embraced by the United Kingdom and European Union, helping them move toward a target of zero carbon emissions at least on paper.
However, the carbon neutrality label given to the burning of woody biomass to make energy, first proclaimed under the Kyoto Protocol, then grandfathered into the Paris Climate Agreement, has been found by science over the last decade to be more accurately characterized as a risky carbon accounting loophole.
SELC uses the power of the law to champion all the things you love about the South: clean water, healthy air, mountains, forests, rural countryside, and the coast.
To try to comply with state water quality requirements, the company has a creative, if dubious solution.
A proposed deal between Alcoa and the NC Department of Environmental Quality would allow the company to increase the amount of cyanide it discharges into Badin Lake, a popular fishing and swimming destination and a drinking water supply in Stanly County.
DEQ has not yet approved the proposal, called a Special Order by Consent. Based on a review of more than 300 public comments, the agency is “looking at all options,” DEQ spokeswoman Anna Gurney said.
The proposal also covers fluoride that would be discharged into the lake.