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. The decision to regulate PFAS represents a huge win for public health. That win will come at a cost.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

He specifically referred to the “ magnitude of the pollution problem ,” and the “urgency of increased attention to prevention and abatement of pollution of our soils, air and waters.” By the year 2000 there will be about 25 percent more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than at present.”

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Carbon 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 81

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

So the data we collect is about extremely precise characterizations of lots and lots of different data points about the soil and the rock throughout many, many feet—1,000 feet, 2000 feet deep. With geothermal for the last 70 years, people understand the building side, but the subsurface side is honestly still very unknown.

Building Energy Monitoring 69

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 69

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. Introduction Climate Change.

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Organic Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. One study determined that cases in California rose 800 percent between 2000 and 2018.

Health 145

Health Soil Climate change Medicine 145

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Furthermore, he added, the facility is subject to annual audits by the Railroad Commission, the Texas Department of State Health Services, clients, and other groups, and also “more frequent surprise audits.”

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. President Jimmy Carter to triple coal production by the G7 countries until the year 2000.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The last report, which the Trump administration tried to bury when it came out in 2018, was the most dire since the first assessment was published in 2000. Health care, already a longstanding challenge in the islands, is expected to get worse, as temperatures rise and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika proliferate.

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Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Sea level rise 145

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

The historic climate, health and tax package cleared by Congress last week could drive catalytic change in the US carbon dioxide removal industry, writes BeZero Carbon's Victoria Harvey. DAC, for example, requires 2000 kWh to remove one tonne of CO2. We are at a watershed moment for global climate policy.

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