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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. Climate Change. Climate Change.

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

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illustrates broadening tension in the country, as resistance to living near a mine clashes with the potential of EVs to mitigate climate change. The years-long opposition to the project, which would become one of the few lithium-producing sites in the U.S, The company has applied for U.S.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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The issue of fossil-fuel subsidies drives right to the heart of climate change and sustainable development and must be addressed urgently. Better subsidy design can usually help reduce any negative effects and also ease the task of reform in the future. This will be easier said than done. David Runnalls, president of IISD.

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