GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Our dedication to the environment therefore expanded to forest management in 2003 with the establishment of Natural Water Sanctuaries, aimed to nurture quality groundwater around our production sites in Japan.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

An ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme for drinks containers could result in an extra 823 million plastic bottles being produced[i], inadvertently adding to plastic pollution – one of the key issues the scheme is trying to solve. billion cans to 250 million following the introduction of the German DRS in 2003. iv] Excluding milk bottles.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Sustainability Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Lockdown Reduces Air Pollution Up until the wildfires, there had been a welcome reduction in air pollution due to the COVID-19 lockdown. With more people staying home from school and work, pollution from cars and trucks was reduced, improving air quality for millions of people. What does this mean for residents’ health?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Having married a New Zealander in 2003, we decided to both have a career break in late 2011 and move to New Zealand. Our technology facilitates the onshoring and localisation of production, freeing the sector from geopolitical uncertainties, as well as its dependence on harmful mining practices and highly polluting oil industry feedstocks.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) all major polluters must submit an annual report declaring how much carbon dioxide they emitted that year. The system was designed to provide an economic incentive for polluters to use greener forms of energy, but it has faced accusations of fraud that have cost taxpayers billions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

For facilities managers, now is a critical time from the perspective of pollution control. PPM delivers a comprehensive, ongoing assessment of the pollution prevention measures in place across a site in its entirety. An example is BS EN 858-2:2003 which details the preferred maintenance schedule for oil separators.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Liberian peace activist responsible for leading the women’s nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It One of the keys to the company’s success has been the relationship that it has built with sensor supplier Alphasense.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Since hydrogen produces minimal pollutants when combusted, it is envisioned by many as a core component of a cleaner energy future. Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” in his 2003 State of the Union address. Hydrogen can be combusted directly, or it can be used in a fuel cell to produce electricity. President George W.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

AVTA says in addition to slashed carbon emissions and local air pollution, it's been able to save 769,231 gallons of diesel fuel, the equivalent of more than $1 million in fuel cost savings. . The city of Oakland in California has a long history of setting climate and sustainability goals, and in 2003 adopted a green fleet policy.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

Founders Stefan Clauss and Stefan Schulze Dieckhoff got the idea for the inflatable tents while on a trip to Portugal in 2003. The company first released a line of inflatable tents in 2011; now, with summer 2020 approaching, Heimplanet is reminding outdoor enthusiasts that there has never been a better time to go camping.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

Founders Stefan Clauss and Stefan Schulze Dieckhoff got the idea for the inflatable tents while on a trip to Portugal in 2003. The company first released a line of inflatable tents in 2011; now, with summer 2020 approaching, Heimplanet is reminding outdoor enthusiasts that there has never been a better time to go camping.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. For these highest emitters, climate pollution from driving is second only to flying (which, on average, generates twice as many emissions).

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Domestically produced scrap is generally of far lower quality than the “foreign garbage” that China imports, and is likely to be more polluting. In their view, China’s high recycling rates – up to 70 percent for scrap paper – avert deforestation, mineral extraction and fossil fuel use. Will source nations step up? percent to 0.5

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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? Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Our dedication to the environment therefore expanded to forest management in 2003 with the establishment of Natural Water Sanctuaries, aimed to nurture quality groundwater around our production sites in Japan.

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Health Soil Sustainability 28

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

But these methods often require high processing temperatures or high pressure, which can lead to pollution through hazardous fumes. In 2003, the first WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive was also introduced, providing regulations for recycling all electronic waste.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Potsdam in Germany found that Exxon’s estimates from 1977 to 2003 proved to be just as precise as those from independent academics and government scientists. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

About Rainbow Light: 25 years ago, Rainbow Light developed the first Ecoguard® FDA approved food grade, BPA-free 100% recycled plastic bottles, reducing their carbon footprint by 92% and keeping approximately 10 million plastic bottles from polluting waterways and natural habitats every year.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. Gray Davis losing a recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

11 International Mountain Day in 2003 and “encouraged the international community to organize events at all levels on that day to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development.” Pristine land is lost to development, and car fumes pollute the clean air as gases get stuck in valleys. Otherwise, enjoy the quiet.

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Grist

APRIL 9, 2020

is one of the world’s most dangerous invisible pollutants. This is a very strong indication that air pollution is associated with death from COVID-19,” said Zuofeng Zhang, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the Harvard study. It’s made up of tiny particles (smaller than 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

But Railroad Commission reports, such as one 2003 inspection , indicate that the waste is not always making it into the salt cavern, and rather Lotus “is only using the entire facility plant and decon facility for storage.”. One particularly damning Railroad Commission inspection occurred in May 2003.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

While such growth comes with serious problems — from traffic gridlock, to air and water pollution, to the destruction of nature — running out of water is not now on that list for most of the larger cities of the West. Beginning in the 1990s, the San Diego region embarked on one of the most aggressive water conservation plans in the country.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Pollution risk: Switchgears, which are devices that isolate faults, have traditionally been insulated with Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6).   Physical Incident Detection The Northeast Blackout of 2003 and other blackouts caused by outages can be traced back to poor vegetation management.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Concrete problems Our most recent research, looking at the US military’s use of concrete in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, illustrates some of the calculations involved.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

Air pollution impacts how the human body can fight infections and viruses - it is time for governments and businesses to recognise these risks. But one of the most important links could be the one right under (and up into) our noses: air pollution. SARS, outbreak of 2003. "[P]oor

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 31, 2020

OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the implications of President Trump’s weakening of shared vehicle emission regulations: “President Trump’s decision to dramatically weaken regulations for vehicle efficiency and pollution is reckless and misguided.

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Pollution Climate change Health Government 55

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses. million to the party since 2019, is the owner of JCB, which belongs to the high-pollution construction industry. And big companies are not faring any better.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. The Golden Pass project itself was initially launched in 2003 as a terminal that would import LNG into the U.S. —

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Each has accepted at least $500,000 from polluting companies over their careers, DeSmog found. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s senior senator, leads the group with over $2 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry between 2003-2023. million of these campaign contributions. ” Oily Money Republican Sen.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Her team also last year set context-based water targets that aim to restore 158 billion gallons of water and reduce about 5,500 tons of water pollutants in priority watersheds. The goal: to cultivate more water — and habitat in those watersheds — than it uses in its plants by 2050.

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