Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

An explosion at a treatment site in Avonmouth, Bristol in early December has shocked the wastewater sector, and provided a stark reminder of the health and safety risks that have to be managed. There were four fatalities, all male, including a 16-year old apprentice. Another person was injured.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The researchers reached this conclusion by critically evaluating the UK’s current method of calculating methane emissions, suggesting alternative, peer-review based methods and generating revised emission estimates.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Mon, 05/03/2021 - 01:30. The San Francisco Bay Area company produces one commercial product, a bio-inspired film used in personal electronics, but it plans to unveil 10 products for use in consumer care, agriculture and electronics over the next few years. Warner joined Zymergen last year as distinguished research fellow. "I

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The World Biogas Summit 2021 will focus on how, in the build up to COP26, anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas can help reduce global methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The event takes place on 6 – 8 July. There are cost-effective solutions that can be implemented immediately, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In August 2022, a 30-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries after an explosion damaged a road in the village of Cropston, north of Leicester. In August 2022, a 30-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries after an explosion damaged a road in the village of Cropston, north of Leicester.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

New analysis suggests three million working days a year are lost to air pollution. The UK economy could enjoy a clean air dividend of £1.6bn if World Health Organisation (WHO) targets for air quality were met, a major new report has calculated. The Ultra Low Emission Zone has already cut toxic air by a third.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

Tue, 03/02/2021 - 02:00. With the explosive growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years, it appears that we may be at or approaching an inflection point. The elephant in the room. Entities issuing securities — stocks or bonds — in the U.S. failed nation-states. failed nation-states.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In the years since the discovery, New York has become an epicenter for C. In Europe, a survey last year found case numbers nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Sustainability Benefits of Telemedicine And Virtual Health. Virtual health comprises not only video or phone calls between patients and doctors but also includes remote monitoring using digital health tools such as wearables, implantable devices, and mobile apps. The carbon footprint savings range between 0.70-372

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Envirotec reviews the latest data, tools and what experts believe we can learn. The EA released the latest batch of Event Duration Monitorling (EDM) data on 31 March, offering a picture of untreated sewage discharges from monitored storm overflows and CSO s during 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Government’s Food Security Report 2021 is clear: ‘‘The biggest medium to long term risk to the UK’s domestic production comes from climate change and other environmental pressures like soil degradation, water quality and biodiversity”. billion each year. We face an urgent nature and climate crisis.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. . Danielle Purifoy. Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 30 years, counties along the Texas-Mexico border will experience temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a third of the year. The group’s peer-reviewed model projects that that figure will increase 13-fold to about 107 million in 30 years. By 2053, 26 percent of counties in the U.S.

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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. If you had told me the city is going to strike a deal with Zenith to allow at least five more years of their fossil fuel operations, I would just be like, ‘Why?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

We’re going to explore the upcoming IPCC report and some of the terms you’ll be hearing when it’s released on August 9, 2021. Every IPCC country can nominate scientists to participate in the report-writing process, and there is an intense and transparent review process. A lot can change in eight years. What is the IPCC?

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Certification Procedure: The program is comprised of four courses: Introduction to sustainability reporting and the GRI Standards 2021 update. Reporting with GRI Standards 2021 update. Reporting on Human Rights with GRI Standards 2021 update. Integrating the SDGs into sustainability reporting.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. The Draft Scoping Plan notes that within this ongoing “megadrought,” the past 22 years have represented the southwest United States’ driest period since at least 800 CE. billion.

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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. But neither the existing levees nor the proposed ring levee would prevent a major storm from flooding the site, which was inundated during Hurricane Ida in 2021, van Heerden said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Most product designers are unlettered in chemistry, and the practice of green chemistry remains in its early years. Most product designers are unlettered in chemistry, and the practice of green chemistry remains in its early years. Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory, although the EPA total for recent output is less than 9,000.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To date, EPA has only approved two such permits and projects two-year review periods for the dozens still under review. EPA’s transfer of primary enforcement authority to states for carbon capture and storage projects may decrease permitting delays but raise legal questions.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The funding package marks a 30 per cent increase on the original £257m allocated for active travel in the 2021-2022 financial year, which the government had set out in the Spending Review in November 2020. per cent, driven in large part by successive Covid-19 lockdowns and public health advice to avoid public transport.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

This week, Energy Innovation updated the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. Health Impacts. By Olivia Ashmoore. Version 3.3 Version 3.3 The EPS version 3.3

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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.”. link] via @ABC — NM State Land Office (@NMLandOffice) May 20, 2021. nmpol #nmleg — New Mexico Oil & Gas (@NMOilAndGas) May 12, 2021. million MCF of natural gas in 2020.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Judicial Council is currently on a remote work schedule through December 2021. Reviews and approves time sheets. Reviews and approves time sheets. Evaluate employee performance and conducts performance reviews; and. Maintain contracts for FLS firms, track project progress, review and approve invoices.

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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. Thus began, Peters told lawyers in a 2021 deposition, a “week in hell.” This story was co-published with Fast Company.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Levy was selected to sit on Louisiana’s Oilfield Site Restoration Commission in 2021 because of his knowledge of the oil and gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The thinktank could have engaged an active climate scientist such as climatologist Gavin Schmidt , Director of the NASA institute where Professor Bates worked 25 years ago as a senior scientist, if it desired “a progressive move into the 21st Century”, Anderson said. “As Climate ‘Contrarian’. Institutional Ties.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

The latest event in BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival 2021 , the Net Zero Nature Summit will kick off with a keynote interview with WWF UK CEO Tanya Steel and opening keynote presentation from Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. “I I never replied.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some of these facilities supply British and European seafood wholesalers, who in turn sell to supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and other retailers; caterers supplying pubs, hotels and restaurants, schools and universities; and the National Health Service, the four-year investigation found.

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