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    • Big Energy

    Wealthy elite travel to the WEF annual meetings via a “steady stream” of private planes and helicopters to discuss issues like global sustainability.
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    Emissions from the plastics sector equaled that of 116 coal-fired power plants last year.
    One in ten births in the U.S. is pre-term (one in seven for Black babies), at an estimated societal cost of $26.2 billion.
    E-waste can end up in massive digital dumps in the Global South, exposing children who pick out valuable metals from the trash to more than 1,000 toxic substances.
    'With the power of a pen, President Biden could stop these pipeline projects.'
    'We may never be able to fully measure the magnitude and scale of the harm done by Formosa around the world.'
    More than 330 U.S. research scientists sent a letter to President Biden Thursday urging him to use his executive authority to stop all new fossil fuel projects.
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    Air pollution and birth outcomes are both prevalent global health concerns.
    The environmental disaster that spilled at least 126,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off Orange County this weekend is highlighting the massive risks of offshore drilling.
    'This is the Panama Papers on steroids.'
    The world has wasted decades tinkering with carbon trading and 'green' financial labeling schemes.
    Infants have an average of 10 times the concentration of a type of microplastic in their poop than adults.
    'Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world.'
    Despite needing to 'play a critical role in catalyzing the rapid shift of financial flows away from oil, fossil gas and coal,' 12 major central banks 'have instead tinkered at the edges.'
    Like the record-breaking heat waves and the ceaseless mega-fires, the decline of the Colorado River has been faster than expected.
    Earth's atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and sea levels both hit record highs in 2020.
    ‘The climate crisis is a child rights crisis.’
    People the world over have suffered record-shattering temperatures and deadly extreme weather.
    Climate justice campaigners are demanding fossil fuel corporations be forced to pay for clean up.
    1.2 Trillion Dollars in the past 5 years.
    Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen has devoted his life to cleaning up waterways.
    DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying.
    Ecocide means to destroy the environment, but when considered etymologically, from the Greek and Latin, it signifies to kill one’s home.
    We need a global agreement to save the Amazon.'
    ExxonMobil used cash to buy Influence over Congress.
    Fossil fuel corporations have injected PFAS, or chemicals that can degrade into PFAS, into the ground while fracking for oil and gas.
    Water protectors in the area of Willow River where Enbridge is working to install a "climate-wrecking" tar sands pipeline.
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