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Its Time to Take Action on Environmental Justice
2021-04-14 08:00:00| Waste Age
This year will mark 51 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated. During that time, the waste and recycling industry has made major strides to protect the planet for future generations, with improved technology to recycle more materials and redu
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FERC Chairman: Regulator to Create Environmental Justice Position
2021-02-12 16:37:31| OGI
Glick announces new effort to consider interests of residents near fossil fuel projects.
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Episode 90: Unpacking NJs Landmark Environmental Justice Law (Transcript)
2021-01-19 16:02:00| Waste Age
[00:00:00] Liz Bothwell: Hi everyone, welcome to Waste360's NothingWasted! Podcast. On every episode, we invite the most interesting people in waste recycling and organics to sit down with us and chat candidly about their thoughts, the
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Episode 90: Unpacking NJs Landmark Environmental Justice Law
2021-01-11 07:00:00| Waste Age
In our latest episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Matt Karmel, an attorney with Riker Danzigs Environmental Law Group, which is among the largest and most diverse practices of its kind. We spoke with Karmel about new legislation tackling the d
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How the Justice for Black Farmers Act Levels the Playing Field
2020-12-22 21:51:54| National Farmers Union
By Mackenzie Jeter, NFU Intern A hundred years ago, agriculture was a relatively diverse profession in the United States: a million Black farmers operated about 14 percent of the countrys farms. The makeup of the modern agricultural workforce could not look more different. Today, there are just 48,000 Blackfarmers a 95 percent decline since […]