Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: โWhat theyโve really been denying the community is the ability to really call the question, should this facility, based on its past operation, receive a renewal of its hazardous waste permit? The communityโs position is no. And I think that they have the receipts for why theโฆ
The Trump administration is removing climate-related information from government websites, many of which farmers rely on to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.
Transitioning to 100% clean energy is a huge opportunity to power our economy and create good jobs without sacrificing our communities or the climate. Hereโs how we do it.
Jim Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: โItโs quite simple. If you want to burn municipal waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for municipal waste incinerators. If you want to burn industrial waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for industrial waste.โ
Ada Waelder is the Policy Advocate for the California Regional Office where she spearheads the organizationโs legislative and regulatory efforts in and around Sacramento.
Food waste is a top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. When food waste rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in its global warming strength. According to New York Stateโs inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, in 2014, landfill emissions made up about 58% of the Stateโs methane emissions and about 5% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.
New York's legislature passed a strong law banning single-use plastic bags, however, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation proposed regulations that would allow thicker bags to be used, undermining the law. The loophole ultimately increases the lifecycle impacts from plastic bags, from the fossil fuel extraction, to harmful chemical additives, to the bags ending up on streets and oceans, or to later be burned or added to the landfills.
