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September 8, 2021 Economy / Environment / Landfill / News & Updates / Recycling / Resource Management / Waste-to-Energy / Zero Waste
Why burning our trash may not be as bad as it sounds

Understanding waste-to-energy’s financial and environmental impact in King County. By Cameron Sheppard King County officials are proposing and exploring more sustainable alternatives to the massive Cedar Hills Landfill, including the burning of waste through waste-to-energy systems. Questions and concerns have been raised regarding some of the potential externalities WTE could have on the surrounding environment as well as its effectiveness as part of a more sustainable waste management system. Waste-to-energy operates by essentially burning waste in a closed…

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September 2, 2021 Climate Change / Economy / Environment / Future Costs / Gallery / News & Updates / Science & Society
Climate Bankruptcy

Remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled into the New York City region. And what happens when climate change comes to a small Southern town. By David Leonhardt Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town. Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increasingly…

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July 13, 2021 Climate Change / Ecology / Economy / Environment / International / Legislation / News & Updates / Resource Management
E.U. Set to Unveil First-Ever Carbon Border Tax

The proposed tax places a fee on planet warming emissions embedded in goods produced outside the union By Sara Schonhardt, E&E News on July 13, 2021 Europe is about to shake up the global trade network—all in the name of climate change. The European Union is scheduled this week to release its plan for a carbon border adjustment—basically a fee on planet-warming carbon embedded in goods produced outside the 27-member bloc. The E.U. border tax—which…

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June 2, 2021 Climate Change / Economy / News & Updates
A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change.

A proposal to construct barriers for storm surge protection has forced South Floridians to reckon with the many environmental challenges they face. MIAMI — Three years ago, not long after Hurricane Irma left parts of Miami underwater, the federal government embarked on a study to find a way to protect the vulnerable South Florida coast from deadly and destructive storm surge. Already, no one likes the answer. Build a wall, the U.S. Army Corps of…

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