Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Leaded petrol is no longer officially being sold or used anywhere in the world, in a move hailed by the UN as "a huge milestone for global health and out environment" and an exemplar of successful multilateral efforts to phase out harmful fossil fuels. Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell Norco.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Echoing a trend seen among fossil fuel incumbents the world over, Germany’s pipeline operators are casting themselves as gatekeepers to climate solutions. It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

Subsidies and policies that facilitate the transition to cleaner heavy-duty vehicles are especially beneficial to EJ communities, as the link between diesel emissions and higher asthma rates for Black and Latino children in communities overburdened by pollution is well-established (AAFA 2005; Weir 2002).

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It can contaminate the air, degrade soil quality and pollute water, among other effects. Since 2002, UNEP has helped governments phase out the substance. “Leaded fuel illustrates in a nutshell the kind of mistakes humanity has been making at every level of our societies,” Inger Andersen, UNEP executive director, said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. In the early 2000s, the challenges faced by the community came to the attention of an environmental justice lawyer named Luke Cole. Early Kivalina Lawsuit.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

Three researchers at Oxford University looked at the link between firms’ environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG) and GDP between 2002-2017. There is new evidence in support of green economic recovery policies. There are also several groups calling on the federal government to build back a green economy.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. How about producing energy without pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

The Earth Day Gratitude celebration is all about powering up on gratitude and powering down electricity and fossil fuels for one hour, between 7:30–8:30pm in your time zone. Since 2002, Natalie Pace has been touring the world and featuring the most sustainable businesses, farms, individuals, restaurants and homes in her blogs.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores. At least a million seabirds are killed annually by plastic pollution, while estimates suggest there are around 270,000 metric tonnes of plastic now clogging the world's ocean.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

The same trend has documented across much of Europe, as soaring sales for electric vehicles and low emission models are more than offset by increased demand for heavier and more polluting SUVs, which made up four in 10 of the UK's new car sales last year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new report from consumer watchdog group Public Citizen details how 111 known members of the Chamber — including major polluters and banks that back fossil fuels — have violated state and federal laws at least 15,896 times since 2000, totaling more than $156 billion in fines and penalties.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This pay inequality hasn’t budged much since 2002 (during whcih time women earned 80% as much as men). Hence, monitoring and recording your business’s GHG emissions, to target areas for emission reduction, can also serve to help your business save money by slashing fossil fuel energy demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Maynard Keynes It is the Australian autumn of 2002. All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. Liz Lawrence - None of my friends I'm scared of the Santa Clarita fires, I wish that it would rain. It just is. There is no alternative.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She is a graduate of Notre Dame law school and she worked in the private sector before becoming a law professor at Notre Dame in 2002. Adding Justices who want to revive the nondelegation doctrine will undermine EPA’s ability to protect communities—especially communities of color—from pollution and climate change."

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