Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The vision “We know that there are actual real-life impacts between communities that don’t have access to the health benefits of trees and those that do.” The difference was noticeable, even on the same block. But the benefits of trees are not felt equally.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the planet, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. Last year alone was marked by devastating floods that left one-third of Pakistan underwater and the ongoing megadrought in the American Southwest.

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

The Washington State Legislature wrapped up the 2023 legislative session in late April. Through listening sessions, work groups, our policy assembly and committee, and statewide membership summit, we put forward our 2023 Just Transition Agenda for Washington State.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The best climate news of 2023 hasn’t just just come out of closed-door diplomatic meetings. These feelings have been shared by the most informed people, climate scientists, for years. threshold, eight years after Paris pledges that were supposed to produce plummeting emissions, these reassurances ring hollow. .”

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

And now the International Energy Agency (IEA) has today predicted that carbon dioxide emissions are set to climb to record levels in 2023 and will continue rising over the following years if governments do not urgently rethink their recovery spending plans.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

That rule is expected to include Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants, which receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year in zero-emissions credits created by Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act. “We have taken robust actions to address these [issues]," Crane said.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead? Progress to Date All told, the IRA earmarks $369 billion to respond to climate change and increase the nation’s energy security.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

The soaring costs of fertiliser is set to have a huge impact on farming businesses this year, fuelling fears that an additional 100 million people globally could be put at risk of undernourishment. However, in late 2022 and early 2023 they have shown "little response" to falling gas prices.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2023 Agricultural Symposium, “The Changing Geography of Agricultural Production,” explored the factors driving changes in where and how agricultural commodities are produced, disruptions that are leading to further geographical differences, and the role of investments and farm policy in the years ahead.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

Europe's electricity giants are grappling with the demanding challenge of safeguarding staff, keeping the lights on and contributing to the relief effort — all while rolling ahead with their own energy transition plans. CEO Johannes Teyssen, as the company announced its full-year results. "We EDF to lower nuclear forecast.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. This story was co-published with Fast Company. That afternoon, Peters was told that an administrative aide for the U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The sheer scale of the destruction made 2022 an outlier year, but data from the past few decades signals that the historic monsoon was part of a larger trend: Climate change is making South Asia’s rainy season more intense and inconsistent. The same is likely true for other parts of the world that experience recurrent climate disasters. “In

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at COP28, which this year has a strong focus on tackling emissions from the food sector. This number is up from just 10 in 2022. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight. They are going the opposite way.”

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports global sales exceeded 10 million vehicles last year and is set to grow by another 35% this year. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports global sales exceeded 10 million vehicles last year and is set to grow by another 35% this year. Electric vehicles are the future.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Eugene City Council approved a process in which they would consider a ban on new gas hookups in the coming months, with the ban tentatively planned to take effect in January 2023. Here we are two years later and we still don’t have an agreement on anything. Negotiations have dragged on since 2019 with little to show for it.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the IPPC's latest report on climate change, released last this month, scientists warned that methane, a gas largely emitted by livestock agriculture, is playing a larger role than ever in global warming and as such cutting methane emissions is one of the biggest opportunities for limiting warming over the next 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two years in the making, there were high hopes this would be a comprehensive plan of action. The original National Food Strategy , led by restaurateur Henry Dimbleby and published in July 2021, recommended we reduce our consumption of meat by 30 percent over ten years, while producing and eating more fruit, vegetables and pulses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The move forms part of the energy management giant's Energize programme, which was first announced at COP26 in Glasgow last year and is designed to bring together some of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms to drive down the sector's energy-related emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Publication of UK REACH's priorities for upcoming year prompts concern of a widening gap between EU and UK on hazardous chemical regulation. Campaigners have this week raised the alarm over a growing gap between UK and European Union regulations to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

That is the headline finding of fresh analysis released today by consulting giant EY, shows 95 per cent of FTSE 100 firms have still yet to publish net zero transition plans, despite most of them having set their sites on achieving the goal before 2050, and a UK government consultation expected later this year on making such plans mandatory.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

From next week, 200 Co-op stores will stock 'Root Zero' certified carbon neutral potatoes that are grown using sustainable farming practices, ahead of a wider supermarket roll out to be announced in coming months. Co-op becomes the first retailer to stock new net zero emission potatoes, with Root Zero available in 200 stores from next week.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the county is arguing that the process would be illegal, and that local governments should have the power to reject drilling because of its harmful environmental and health effects. The COGCC has scheduled a hearing for January 25, 2023. It’s one that local officials don’t want, but can’t refuse.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Every few years since its founding in 1988, the group has published a major assessment on the latest climate science — including how climate change is impacting people and nature and what the world can do to mitigate it. It comes ahead of the annual U.N.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The global wind power industry looks set for yet another record year of growth in 2020, even taking into account dampened activity and supply chain disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

The vision “We’ve tried the quiet way before and there haven’t been any changes in 60 years. Montana is one of three states that has established a right to a “ clean and healthful ” environment in its state constitution.) Now it’s time to think bigger, speak louder.” A federal case, Juliana v.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Ahead of Chancellor's summer update, MPs and business leaders step up calls for government to deliver sweeping green stimulus plan. The past two months have seen a tidal wave of letters, reports, and coalitions setting out the case for the government to prioritise climate action through its imminent economic stimulus package.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

per cent contraction over the entire year. But any recovery plan that seeks only a return to business-as-usual fails to understand the much deeper challenges ahead. But any recovery plan that seeks only a return to business-as-usual fails to understand the much deeper challenges ahead. per cent, with an expected 8.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The previous year, the city had rejected a land use permit for a company called Zenith Energy, which receives crude oil shipped by rail from as far away as North Dakota. In the summer of 2022, it seemed that the days of an oil-by-rail facility in Portland, Oregon, were numbered.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Net Zero Strategy is "still the right pathway" - The Review stresses that the policies contained in the Net Zero Strategy "should still go ahead", but it also warns that "delay is a significant risk". BusinessGreen rounds up all the key recommendations and conclusions from Chris Skidmore's Net Zero Review. G overnance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Publishing its annual progress report, the statutory environmental watchdog concluded the government's flagship 25 Year Environment Plan "has so far failed to bring about the changes needed at the pace and scale required", adding that the strategy "lacked clarity and commitment".

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Green partnership initiative will encourage fans to walk to matches with a target of reaching 1.5bn steps collectively across the season. It is just the latest eco-initiative involving Forest Green Rovers, which has been described by FIFA as the "greenest club in the world" thanks to its focus on sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The moves are among a host of measures designed to assist British farmers ahead of the coming growing season, with Russia's war in Ukraine further exacerbating rising costs for energy, manufactured fertilisers, and other key agricultural commodities. The costs of war keep adding up.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All-you-need-to-know on the green policies, tax changes and regulatory plans outlined as part of the government's new Growth Plan. It is a decision, as liberal-conservative think tank Bright Blue put it, to "go for broke". Net zero backing reasserted. The government has asked the Rt Hon. "The The government has asked the Rt Hon.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. The findings come as campaigners warn bold proposals to slash pesticide use are in jeopardy. We need to look at the interests behind that.

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