Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Plastic pollution in the ocean may serve as a source for novel antibiotics, according to a new student-led study conducted in collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The research is be presented at the American Society for Microbiology’s conference in Washington, DC on June 9-13, 2022.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That finding “shook me up a lot, I was really distraught,” said Win Cowger, a researcher at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research and the study’s lead author. More than 1 in 10 of the pieces came from Coca-Cola, the top polluter by a significant margin.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For example, the Act establishes a legally binding duty to bring forward at least two new air quality targets in secondary legislation by 31 October 2022. But not all air pollutants have a greenhouse gas effect, and GHGs are not usually toxic. The proposed targets relate to PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. The Conservative Party has regularly accepted donations from polluting interests and climate science deniers , worth £3.5 million in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This legislation is coming into effect on 1 July 2022, as it is in Belgium with Germany and Switzerland following suit in January 2023 with similar MOT testing rules. ‘I believe air pollution is one of the greatest public health crises of our time and that good policy can help to reverse some of its distressing implications.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 High-Pollution Industries Aviation entrepreneur Christopher Harborne donated the largest total sum to the Conservatives in 2022, gifting £1.5 million to the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

million since December 2019 from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and individuals who have expressed or supported climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. The anti-net zero party Reform UK has received more than £2 million in polluting donations since December 2019, accounting for more than 90 percent of its funding.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. With combined revenues of $67 billion in 2022, the six firms dominate the communications industry, and have hundreds of subsidiary agencies around the world. Coleman Jr.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

How might the water industry be better regulated to reduce the sewage pollution that floods waterways in England and Wales? The report identified perceived failings on Ofwat’s part, in not holding water companies sufficiently to account for environmental pollution through penalties and prosecution.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Dirty windows can harbour potentially harmful pollutants under protective films of fatty acids from cooking emissions – and these can hang around over long periods of time. In addition, toxic pollutants can become trapped underneath this persistent crust and are then protected from breakdown in the atmosphere.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Origin Energy’s 2,880-megawatt Eraring power station, slated by the company to close in August 2025, reported mercury pollution jumped 130% in 2022-23 compared with the previous year, according to data from the national pollution inventory. The heavy metal permanently damages brains and kidneys, especially those of children.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Two days later, Urban Transitions 2022 gets underway in Sitges, At COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, world leaders will focus on the seemingly overwhelming task of fast-tracking the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions while lessoning our dependence on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

These targets need to be laid as draft Statutory Instruments by 31 October 2022, says the consultation document , and will come into force once approved by Parliament. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m This change in approach will help us in the pursuit of the targets we are setting under the Environment Act.’”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

A new report attempts to provide a diagnostic of the scale of the ocean pollution challenge facing humanity. The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical pollution in the ocean has been prodeuced by Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

The good news is that at all levels, this is now clearly recognised; commitments have been made and mechanisms put in place to enable innovation and collaboration in 2022. The Environment Agency’s latest environmental performance report also made clear its expectation for a “trend to zero serious pollutions”.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

The Biden administration pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade under that agreement. “A Trump replaced the Obama administration’s proposed power plant pollution rules with his own weaker measures, which a federal court blocked before they could be implemented.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sewage pollution is raising bacteria levels in Oxford’s popular swimming spots to unsafe levels after rainfall, new research appears to find. A decision from Westminster is expected in early 2022. Geese grazing in Port Meadown, Oxford (image credit: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. , CC BY-NC 2.0

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Four companies — including BP and Shell — who say Venture Global hasn’t delivered on its long-term contracts have filed for arbitration, and critics are asking if the firm is profiting from the polluting plant. to Europe in 2022 and 2023, according to the company. I worked with chemical companies. This is monkey business.”

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. At the end of its latest accounting period, December 2022, the Conservative Party Foundation boasted reserves of £6.7

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A formal proposal still needs to be issued, but it has already faced pushback on how much of those pollution cuts should come from risky tactics aimed at capturing rather than preventing pollution. It also carves out room for controversial technologies for capturing carbon dioxide pollution.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Buildings are a major source of pollution, accounting for more than a third of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions globally. Fossil-fueled heating equipment across the nine states that have joined the MOU create more than 138,000 tons of NOx and 6,000 tons of fine particulate matter pollution each year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

But Oxy’s plans for them appear to be less about sustainability and more about creating a “license to pollute,” according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Carbon Market Watch. These emissions, known as Scope 3 emissions, represented more than 90 percent of Oxy’s greenhouse gas footprint in 2022.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 30, 2022

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, March 29, 2022 Genesis announced the GV60 won a prestigious honor at this year’s Red Dot Award. The Product Design 2022 in the cars and motorcycles category. It’s the first model the brand powers by an EV platform. Moreover, Red Dot was established in 1955 and organized every year by Design Zentrum […].

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. million has been pledged to 44 UK universities by 32 oil, coal and gas companies since 2022 in the form of research agreements, tuition fees, scholarships, grants, and consulting fees. This would potentially remove £17.7

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

UK-based private jets emitted half a million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, the most in Europe, as new research slams the continent's most 'carbon intense' flights UK-based private jets clocked up their busiest year to date in 2022 with the total number of flights soaring by 75 per cent versus 2021, according to a new analysis commissioned by Greenpeace.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. — Claire Elise Thompson To understand the global plastics treaty, it’s helpful to go back to the 2022 U.N. “What we don’t want to see is something similar to the Paris Climate Agreement,” said Charron.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

measurement system being installed at the site in Qaanaaq, by Tomoki Kajikawa, co-author of the study (image credit: Tomoki Kajikawa) A case study on the effects of open waste burning on air quality in Northwestern Greenland used advanced particulate monitoring to better understand the air quality risks of this kind of pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2023

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar corporate polluter in court and won, has received a 2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism. Her remarkable achievement and ongoing commitment to fighting plastic pollution demonstrates the power of grassroots action to create concrete change.”

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Green Living Guy

MAY 2, 2022

April 22, 2022 – The Hyundai Tucson Plug-in Hybrid has been named the 2022 Best Plug-in Hybrid by U.S. FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., News & World Report. The Tucson Plug-in Hybrid has an all-electric range of 33 miles and an EPA-estimated 35 MPG combined. The annual Best Hybrid and Electric Cars awards combine the U.S. News […].

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2023

Environment Agency publishes latest review of environmental performance from England's water companies, warning that modest improvements fail to address the scale of the pollution challenge

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Grist

JUNE 10, 2022

Almost 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by tire wear than is pumped out of the exhausts of modern cars, tests have shown. Air pollution causes millions of early deaths a year globally. Tailpipes are now so clean for pollutants that, if you were starting out afresh, you wouldn’t even bother regulating them.”.

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Charged

MARCH 3, 2023

The market share of plug-in vehicles rose from 65 percent in 2021 to 80 percent in 2022. This doesn’t seem to be a problem in Norway—as reported by the Norwegian Road Federation , the 10 top-selling cars in 2022 were all BEVs: Tesla Model Y (17,356 units sold) Volkswagen ID.4 The trend of steady electrification continued last year.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 8, 2022

May 4, 2022 – GreenPower Motor Company Inc. The post GreenPower to Showcase it’s Line of EVs at the 2022 Advanced Transportation Expo appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada. Los Angeles, Calif.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

At the end of December 2022, when Americans were getting ready to spend hours indoors with family and friends — often in their kitchens, preparing holiday meals on the stovetop — a new study reignited a decades-old debate. ” The backlash was swift and fierce. This draft, recently discovered in the U.S.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 11, 2022

There is an increasing need to explore more eco-friendly materials in 2022. The post A Quick and Easy Guide to the Best Eco-Friendly Materials this 2022 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada.

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