Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. The question remains whether we will be prepared.”. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In many ways, EtO is a poster child for the ways that industry and regulators have, for decades , failed to effectively protect people from chemical safety hazards and health threats like cancer. Muller ranks in the top 25 schools where students’ long-term health is most at risk from toxic air pollution in the U.S.,

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Front And Centered

JUNE 30, 2023

Twenty years ago, we saw the same sort of moral panic over gay marriage, which ended up being used as a wedge issue during the 2004 presidential elections. Hundreds of bills have been brought forward in state legislatures across the country to try and curtail trans rights and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights more broadly.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Sustainable Interior Design. INTERIOR PAINT. Additional Resources.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We As the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

It put the health of millions at risk and cost Indonesia $16.1bn—twice the cost of reconstruction following the 2004 tsunami. The September 2015 Indonesian forest fires, for example, destroyed 2.6 million hectares of forest and emitted greenhouse gases (GHG) equal to Germany's annual emission volumes. billion by 2050.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate. Employee health and safety: With 89% of employees feeling that AstraZeneca is a great place to work. Earlier this year, a CNBC story announced that…. Compliance governance: 49.1

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Now over 90% of homes are using LPG – almost the entire population of Indonesia since 2004. So, it’s a lower carbon fuel than the fuels that it’s replacing and it’s a healthier fuel – it definitely contributes to an improvement in people’s health.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

While that blast was contained, a vapor cloud explosion at an LNG terminal in Algeria in 2004 killed 27 people. The Yale School of Public Health, however, released a study last year that found that Pennsylvania children living near fracking wells have a two to three times elevated risk of a form of childhood leukemia.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 21, 2020

from the week of April 14, 2020 compared to the same week in 2019 — the lowest since 2004. Even simply opening the blinds or curtains provides natural light, which is essential for working and your mental health. Entire businesses have shut down, and most industrial activity has come to a grinding halt.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Established in 2004, GBI has since become a leader in advancing green building practices and developing a range of resources for those interested in sustainable building. The organization is committed to creating a future where buildings are designed and operated with resource efficiency and occupant health in mind.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

“In the mind of the public, health and climate change represent different and separate realms of knowledge and concern,” laments the latest annual report on health and climate change published by the leading medical journal The Lancet earlier this year. has no major money pot for developing a climate and health workforce.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Inspired by nature and the unique place of Sacramento, this experience is celebrated throughout the interior and exterior of the building through practices that promote community health and well-being. In 2004, Jeff co-founded the Center for Cities & Schools (CC+S) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 The engineer holds master’s degrees in mineral economics and petroleum economics.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Related: These adaptive reuse hotel suites in Amsterdam are built inside old bridge houses By 1900, Hot Springs was a major health destination. In 1832, the U.S. government proclaimed the area a federal reserve. On one hand, the buildings were historical, architectural and cultural treasures.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the products in question are going to have a positive impact on the health of the planet and sustainability of the food industry, and in the case of Memphis Meats, bring a new and desirable product into the multi-trillion dollar global meat market, then it will be worth the wait.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the products in question are going to have a positive impact on the health of the planet and sustainability of the food industry, and in the case of Memphis Meats, bring a new and desirable product into the multi-trillion dollar global meat market, then it will be worth the wait.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Further, VOC emissions can harm the environment and human health. Several other VOCs including ethane, propane, butane, pentane, and hexane react with NOx to form ground level ozone which has harmful effects on human health and on plants. Especially methane is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Morris was president, chief executive officer, and chairman of American Electric Power (AEP) from 2004 to November 2011 and continued as AEP’s chairman until 2013. This is particularly acute for property and casualty insurers right now, but in the long term will also impact life and health insurance companies Shrago said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village. In January 2020, Kivalina and the Louisiana Tribes brought their joint complaint to the UN, alleging that the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance. Evolving from SRI, in 2004, UN Secretary Kofi Annan asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporation.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. California does have a relatively new program, called the Healthy Soils Initiative, whereby state money goes to farmers who implement practices thought to benefit soil health. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. S includes labor relations, diversity, inclusion, philanthropy, and charity work, supplier support, and health and safety provision.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On that basis, the argument goes, reducing emissions is easier in low-productivity systems, where the cow’s digestion is the almost exclusive source of warming gases, if farmers are able to adopt the feed blends and cattle health regimens that have improved efficiency for industrial dairy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

James High School before being drawn into the fight against heavy industry — and its public health and environmental impacts — in her home town alongside the Mississippi River. Lavigne, who founded the community group RISE St. James in 2018, worked for nearly 40 years as a special education teacher at St.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

Other standards look toward different types of management systems, such as ISO 9001 for quality management, and ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety. ISO 14001:2004 or ISO 14001:2015? ISO 14001 standards are just one set in a library of others.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

per cent, marking its fastest growth since 2004; and renewables share of power generation increased from 9.3 This combined health and economic shock is bound to reshape the global economic, political and social environment in which we all live and work," he observed. "It Growth in primary energy consumption slowed to 1.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There is much more understanding now of how companies and their supply chains are dependent on the health of nature to be successful," Cartwright argues. That's why we support our growers all year-round to implement Biodiversity Action Plans on their farms and have done since 2004.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Vasant Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis; Basel, Switzerland LinkedIn | Company profile “Vas” Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. trillion in health and economic costs; that works out to a staggering $8 billion a day. The United Nations has estimated that in 2018 alone, air pollution from fossil fuels caused $2.9 The bill proposes fines up to $1.5

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

Since 2004, Burlingame, California-based Proterra has sold more than 1,000 electric buses in the U.S. While health safety still is a barrier to bus use, the battery-electric bus market is positioned to grow, driven by municipal emissions targets and tumbling battery prices. Courtesy of. Close Authorship. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. In the same year, more than 100 scientists signed a statement, circulated by the institute, disputing the climate change “consensus”.

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