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The Defense Department will soon begin testing every military firefighter’s blood for a class of chemicals tied to health problems, including cancer. But the testing leaves out veterans, and there’s no standard for how much PFAS in the blood is too much. Read More

Alabama utility regulators agreed today to let the state’s largest electric company raise a controversial rooftop solar surcharge, going against the wishes of environmental advocates who say the fee will hurt solar’s growth. Read More

India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilizes trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.N. chief said today. Read More

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance Joel Makower Mon, 08/24/2020 – 02:11 One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, “sustainability” is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory […]

Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers Jesse Klein Thu, 08/20/2020 – 02:00 Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods, is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century.  “Food manufacturing has really only scaled up in the last 60 years,” she said. “And that means we’re also working on very antiquated […]

Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency Catherine Nabukalu Wed, 08/19/2020 – 01:30 One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. Among several things, he discussed the vital benefit of energy efficiency in working toward environmental sustainability through emissions […]

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue started off this year asking farm policy groups how to make U.S. agriculture more innovative. His department enters the last few months with a flood of answers that challenge the Trump administration’s messaging. Read More

Pollution flowing out of Pennsylvania’s cash-strapped agricultural lands — made worse by increasing runoff tied to climate change — is threatening to upend efforts to revitalize the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new report. Read More