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Jordan Guiao is a Research Fellow at The Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology, and is the author of new book, 'Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it' through Monash University Publishing.
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People who spend summers fishing and canoeing on the Middle Fork Vermilion River should be pleased to know its water quality should be improving in the coming years. The State of Illinois reached a cleanup agreement last month with a company accused of polluting the state's only national scenic river. The settlement requires Dynegy Midwest Generation to clean up toxic coal ash it dumped near the Middle Fork for nearly 60 years. ...
The New York state Legislature has passed the Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act, which aims to hold companies contracting with the state accountable for deforestation their products might create. It could range from how it is cultivated to the company's supply chain. An Accountability Framework Initiative/CDP report found more than 200 companies surveyed identified almost $80 billion of forest related risks. ...
After a company known as Solar Titan USA was recently banned from doing business in Kentucky, advocacy groups are working to raise awareness of the signs of solar fraud. Hundreds of consumers were duped into making thousands of dollars in payments for solar panels which were improperly installed, took months to install, or did not deliver on the company's promises, according to the Attorney General's office. Lowell Wagner, a resident of Jackson County, saw an online ad for Solar Titan. ...