GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

I worked as chief of staff for — now Lord, then Sir — Nick Stern on his landmark review on the economics of climate change. Even though it was published 14 years ago, much of the findings of that seminal report are relevant today, namely that the benefits of addressing climate change, sooner than later, far outweighs the costs.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The ULEZ was first introduced in central London in 2019 in a bid to improve air quality, before the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, further expanded the zone two years later to encompass all areas of inner London within the North and South Circular roads. Khan said evidence of the benefits of expanding the ULEZ was now "beyond dispute".

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Pollution Health Fossil fuels Transportation 98

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In early 2019, ASU became Planet’s first Campus-wide university partner , and since then, over 30 peer reviewed journal articles have been published by ASU using our data products. ASU has been at the forefront of innovative education and partnerships for the past 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We The Disinformation Report: Harvesting Denial, Distractions & Deception suggests that the industry is sidestepping accountability for its role in greenhouse emissions. In the U.S.

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Agriculture Education Climate change Policy 142

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. Envirotec reports. But without the power to impose financial penalties (as does the European Commission), there were concerns over its likely efficacy.

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2018, two years after announcing the financing deal, UKPF revealed it had become a supplier to KFC in Kazakhstan. as clients.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 88

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 5, 2019

By Gail Parson, Director of Membership & State Engagement The third year of the E2 1 Hotels Fellowship officially launched this week with applications for the 2019–2020 class being accepted now! In our first two years, these leaders have made a real difference in state and local levels throughout the nation.

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Soil Health Sustainability Startups 60

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. . FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Agriculture Biotechnology 98

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

billion each year. The UK Government’s current nature target would mean there is less nature in England in 20 years’ time. For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts.

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Law Biodiversity Climate change Soil 222

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Clutch of campaigning organisations seek judicial review of Defra's refusal to investigate reported links between pollution and Covid-19 health outcomes. Defra refused a request from the Good Law Project for a review of the strategy in June, citing a lack of "compelling reasons" for such a review at the time.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Years before Hurricane Katrina levee failures flooded New Orleans, a Louisiana hurricane expert warned federal officials of the potential for the levees to break. Scientist Ivor van Heerden stands next to the Bayou Bridge pipeline on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin in 2019. The opposite has proven to be true.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Pollution Sea level rise 93

DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2023

A First Nations advocacy group whose leader has accused pipeline protesters of being beholden to hidden financial interests has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from one of Canada’s top oil and gas producers, newly reviewed corporate documents reveal. CNRL disclosure docs reveal $100,000 payments to IRC in 2020 and 2021.

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Natural gas Government Law Health 97

Grist

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Scientists across the country expressed alarm this month over a leaked proposal that details a potential Environmental Protection Agency policy that could significantly limit what research it uses to create public health regulations. That would be a catastrophe.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Under the National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2018, the UK is legally required to meet binding emission reduction targets for a number of pollutants harmful to the environment and human health, with target dates for hitting both goals in both 2020 and 2030.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review. It follows Shells decision in 2019 to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Association due to "material misalignment" on climate policy. "We

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plant capacity from that year that won’t be competitive beyond the next few years has climbed from roughly five-eighths to three-fourths in just two years. Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. What trends does the report show? With adjustments, the 74.8%

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Innovation Pollution Wind power Health 123

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. Seven of the 13 refineries also reported similarly high levels in 2019, the report notes.

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Energy Monitor Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. The modeled CPP Scenario does not explicitly include the ~2.5

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Front And Centered

JUNE 7, 2023

( Print Version ) In a win for climate and health, WA’s utility commission requires Puget Sound Energy to do more to ensure clean energy implementation plan is equitable Clean energy and environmental justice advocates sought and won sweeping changes to the state’s largest utility’s four-year plan.

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Electricity Energy Energy Carbon-neutral 52

Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plant capacity from that year that won’t be competitive beyond the next few years has climbed from roughly five-eighths to three-fourths in just two years. Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. What trends does the report show? With adjustments, the 74.8%

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Innovation Pollution Wind power Health 108

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful.

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Government Law Policy Climate change 96

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

During a two-day judicial review hearing in the High Court on June 29 and 30, Transport Action Network (TAN) is arguing that ministers should have evaluated how the government’s whole £27.4 Campaigners are challenging the UK’s largest ever road building strategy on the grounds that its impact on the climate was not fully considered.

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Government Climate change Transportation Construction 83

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Envirotec reviews the latest data, tools and what experts believe we can learn. million hours, a slight decrease on 2020, a decline attributed to the drier weather during that year. The 31 March data from the EA shows that 40% of them are already recording 10 or less spills per year.

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Pollution Agriculture Government Law 264

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The government has been urged draw up a robust 'National Heat Risk Strategy' to tackle the growing threat hot weather is posing to the UK's buildings, infrastructure, and public health, following estimates that at least several hundred people have been killed by high temperatures this summer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embattled government confirms remit of new three-month review on the UK's net zero strategy, which is to by led by Chris Skidmore, MP. The UK government has today officially launched its independent review of how the country can meet its net zero emissions target by 2050 in a way that is "pro-business and pro-growth".

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

One stood out among the rest: A plot the Saskatchewan potato farmer had planted on a whim three years earlier with an experimental grain called Kernza, similar to the wheat used to make bread and beer. ” Kernza is a perennial, which means, like a lawn, it regrows and produces grain every year without having to be replanted. .”

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Soil Agriculture Organic Health 94

Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The five-mile stretch of Seattle’s only river was declared a Superfund site in 2001 after nearly 100 years of industrial activity, such as the manufacturing of airplane parts and the production of asphalt. Efforts to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway have been decades in the making.

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Health Pollution Seafood Demand 117

R-Squared Energy

APRIL 15, 2022

I lived in Hawaii for five years, where I worked for a company that managed forests (among other things). During the first 10 years or so of their lives, they generate biomass at the rate of 7-10 bone-dry tons per acre per year. One of the more controversial renewable energy resources is woody biomass, such as trees.

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Soil Natural gas Carbon Sustainability 78

DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Enormous sums of taxpayer money and money meant for public schools, along with the long-term health of our lands, are on the line.”. The industry has helped fill state coffers in recent years, with oil production booming to roughly 1 million barrels per day , more than double production levels from five years ago.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Education Health 98

Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Those are the headline trade recommendations in the first part of the hotly-anticipated National Food Strategy today, following the first independent review of the UK's food policy in almost 75 years led by Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon fast food chain and the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

A young girl, home alone, wakes up in the middle of the night and walks over to her neighbor’s house. She opens the front door and encounters a horrific scene: a zombified grandma committing an act of cannibalism. Instead of teeth in the woman’s mouth, it’s long tendrils of fungus. The premise is pure fiction. Our luck may be running out.”

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Agriculture Climate change Health North America 72

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Conservative MP insists his review of UK’s net zero agenda is fully independent and that now is 'not a time to recoil from our climate commitments'. Skidmore said the Review was "not a moment to recoil from our climate commitments". That's why I want to hear the views of as many people as possible over the next month.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A review conducted by Carter estimated that livestock is responsible for at least 37 percent of GHG emissions. The profiles in DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database provide a summary of the ways in which the meat industry measures its climate impact and promotes meat production as climate-friendly. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 90

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 89

Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

Vaccines are under development but need to be fully efficacious,” says Michael Bonsall , a mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford, who is not affiliated with Oxitec but has collaborated with the company in the past, and who worked with the World Health Organization to produce a GM mosquito-testing framework.

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Biotechnology Technology Health Biotech 92

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In September 2019, a group appeared on the Brussels political scene pledging to “bring back a balanced debate” about the benefits of meat and dairy. Also represented are farming union Copa Cogeca, animal feed companies and the veterinary medicines industry, including U.S.

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Medicine Policy Law Politics 79