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Los Angeles Finally Bans Oil and Gas Exploration, Protecting Residents and the Environment

It’s hard to believe that it has taken this long, but the city of Los Angeles is finally banning oil and…

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EU aims to end green and social washing, obliging companies in Europe to disclose their impact on people & planet

📷 source: Twitter Dallen Cullen Breaking! While the world leaders were meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, the European Parliament…

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President Biden’s administration announces plans to plant one billion trees

US government to plant more than a billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle…

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Canada bans many single-use plastics by end of 2022

The Government of Canada has delivered on its commitment to ban the manufacture and import of a range of harmful single-use…

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Spain to Ban Plastic Wrapping for Fruit and Veg in 2023

New Spanish legislation is set to ban the sale of fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping in supermarkets and grocery stores…

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Maine just became the First US State to Make businesses Pay for Packaging Waste

Income generated from this “extended producer responsibility” scheme will be used to support local community recycling efforts that have previously relied…

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New Zealand proposes new “Smokefree Generation” laws

If enacted, the proposed Smokefree 2025 plan would include a law to essentially bar anyone born after 2004 from ever buying…

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Friends of the Irish Environment win historic ‘Climate Case Ireland’ in Supreme Court

Amidst the climate and biodiversity crisis, hope emerges as Ireland’s Supreme Court finds in favour of a case taken against the…

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San Francisco city bans the sale of plastic bottles

New regulations prohibit the sale of plastic bottles at events held on city-owned property in San Francisco, and government agencies may…

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Today the UK bans hugely harmful Plastic Microbeads

Tiny particles of plastic are seriously damaging the planet's water and the creatures who live in it. Fortunately the UK now…

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Los Angeles Finally Bans Oil and Gas Exploration, Protecting Residents and the Environment

EU aims to end green and social washing, obliging companies in Europe to disclose their impact on people & planet

President Biden’s administration announces plans to plant one billion trees

Canada bans many single-use plastics by end of 2022

Spain to Ban Plastic Wrapping for Fruit and Veg in 2023

Maine just became the First US State to Make businesses Pay for Packaging Waste

New Zealand proposes new “Smokefree Generation” laws

Friends of the Irish Environment win historic ‘Climate Case Ireland’ in Supreme Court

San Francisco city bans the sale of plastic bottles

Today the UK bans hugely harmful Plastic Microbeads

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Los Angeles Finally Bans Oil and Gas Exploration, Protecting Residents and the Environment

EU aims to end green and social washing, obliging companies in Europe to disclose their impact on people & planet

President Biden’s administration announces plans to plant one billion trees

Canada bans many single-use plastics by end of 2022

Spain to Ban Plastic Wrapping for Fruit and Veg in 2023

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Maine just became the First US State to Make businesses Pay for Packaging Waste

New Zealand proposes new “Smokefree Generation” laws

Friends of the Irish Environment win historic ‘Climate Case Ireland’ in Supreme Court

San Francisco city bans the sale of plastic bottles

Today the UK bans hugely harmful Plastic Microbeads