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Op-ed: Labor and environmental groups can both win in the clean energy transition. Here’s how.

Environmental Health News

could be displaced due to the energy transition by 2030. Meanwhile, environmentalists and environmental justice organizations tend to view these provisions as slowing the transition, affecting environmental and climate justice goals. As a result, they are afraid of changes. Globally, 5.5 million of them in the U.S.,

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Pollution is one of the top drivers of biodiversity loss. Why is no one talking about it at COP16?

Environmental Health News

While the Kunming-Montreal agreement sets out to reduce pollution risks and negative impacts by at least half by 2030, the official agenda of the current COP16 meeting doesn’t include a single debate on chemical pollution, and there’s only one side event addressing pollution and biodiversity links.

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Frontiers participates in One Sustainable Health for All Forum 2023 on inclusive and adaptive systems for health 

Frontiers

Open access publisher Frontiers is participating in the One Sustainable Health for All Forum 2023 co-organized by the One Sustainable Health for All Foundation and the French Development Agency (AFD). COVID-19 highlighted the challenges of interconnected systems for health, which integrate health, food, water, energy, and ecosystems.

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Así es como los sindicatos y los grupos ecologistas pueden salir ganando en la transición energética

Environmental Health News

A escala mundial, 5,5 millones de empleos en el sector de los combustibles fósiles –con 1,7 millones de ellos en Estados Unidos–, podrían verse desplazados por la transición energética de aquí a 2030. Este ensayo ha sido elaborado gracias a la beca Agents of Change in Environmental Justice.

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Extreme heat deaths and illness spark push in NC for federal heat protection standards

NC Health News

Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration extended the public comment period for weighing in on a proposed rule to better protect people from extreme heat in indoor and outdoor workplaces. Gonzlez Mendoza died as a result of a pre-existing condition, Payne said in a statement sent to NC Health News.