The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2020

In 2004, Hurricane Frances caused massive waves in a pond on top of a phosphate plant in Riverview, Florida. This sent 150 million gallons of polluted water cascading into a stormwater ditch surrounding the plant. This polluted water turned the creek, which flows into the nearby Hillsborough Bay, acidic. billion in damage.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 20, 2022

In 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused severe damage in the Gulf of Mexico, including the collapse and sinking of an oil platform. These updates were shared within their Marine Pollution Surveillance Report. By having this frequent perspective, NOAA monitors a number of platforms, looking to identify oil spills early on.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Instead, it suggests that the home uses systems and products that perform better and require less energy, therefore lowering energy demand and air pollution. However, this does not mean that the home utilizes renewable energy, per se. Certification from either program is a good sign that the home you’re buying is considered green.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The last time online searches for hydrogen or fuel cells were this intense was back in 2004, according to Google Trends. ” “Combine all of that with a desire for cleaner cities, lower emissions, reduced air pollution [and] job creation, energy security and you can see why many governments are favorable for this.”

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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. 2004: Can sales dropped from 6.1 iv] Excluding milk bottles. [v] Nielsen/The Nielsen company, Frankfurt a.M.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

In some cases , hydrogen from fossil fuels is produced in conjunction with carbon capture and storage, meaning that the carbon pollution is captured during production and sequestered. Therefore, production by sector and region in 2004 likely still offers a useful indicator for more recent hydrogen production.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. And unlike wood and PVC, Tangent Materials structural lumber doesn’t need to be chemically treated, avoiding the release of harmful pollutants into the air, water and ground. Arqlite , a member of the U.S.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2019 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017), Valencia (2019) and Rome (2020).Urban

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to air pollution expert and University of California Davis Professor Emeritus Thomas Cahill, the dust from the collapsed towers was "wildly toxic". When the Twin Towers were were brought down they not only killed people and destroyed property, they created an environmental nightmare. This is just the tip of the iceberg," Worby said.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2020 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017) and Valencia (2019).The

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association , we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Take Indonesia, for instance.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

However, it struggled to gain enough support for a number of years, with New Zealand making a plea in 2004 for IMO members to support its application in an attempt to accelerate the process. As a non-UN member, the Cook Islands first applied to join the IMO in 1999, when the body’s executive body recommended its membership bid.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. The state establishes an upper limit on greenhouse gas pollution — the cap — and then gives polluters a certain number of allowances to emit the offending gases. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. Yet he smiled at me, telling me that he wanted to buy food with the money I would give. I bought the rose but, as I was walking out, I was filled with despair.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

The building is powered by 100% renewable energy through community solar agreements with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, reducing carbon emissions and air pollution as well as the energy demand from the utility grid. In 2004, Jeff co-founded the Center for Cities & Schools (CC+S) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

AeroFarms was founded in 2004, and its products are sold in 200 grocery stores across the Northeast including Whole Foods. There's the pollution side. It operates one vertical farm in New Jersey, with more on the way. There's the environmental picture. There's the energy side. There's the soil degradation side.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The study considers the production of geothermal brine from the existing geothermal power plant at Salton Sea since 2004, which is just over 120 million metric tons per year. million.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Grist / Jessie Blaeser.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

In 2004, Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, co-founder of the environmental watchdog Louisiana Bucket Brigade, was the first Black American to be awarded the Goldman Prize for her efforts to force Shell to pay to relocate residents living nearest the company’s heavily polluting Norco chemical plant. James Parish.

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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. E looks to reduce a company’s energy use , waste , and pollution while helping to protect natural resources through conservation. ESG Benefits.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S., What are their rights as a tenant?”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Importantly, this does not require its highly polluting supporters to cut greenhouse gas emissions – or even to have a plan for doing so. But instead of reducing its pollution, improving efficiency has only enabled it to produce more milk – and with it, more emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution. 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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Rather than invest capital directly in renewable-energy projects, he wants NRG to provide long-term contracts that improve their financeability.

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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. Green Building Initiative (GBI) Green Globes Certification.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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. Public interest about the environment is very driven by how horrified people are by the damage caused by things like plastic pollution," she says.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

ISO 14001 requires the organization to consider all environmental issues relevant to operations, including: Waste management, water conservation, pollution, climate change mitigation, and resource use and efficiency. ISO 14001:2004 or ISO 14001:2015?

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Moreover, any advances made by clean energy technologies has to be set against the continued dominance of polluting incumbents. per cent, marking its fastest growth since 2004; and renewables share of power generation increased from 9.3 Aspects of the energy system continued to give cause for concern," Looney observed. per cent to 10.4

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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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. Shockingly, Canada has the third highest global rate of new childhood asthma cases from traffic pollution, following Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Rather than invest capital directly in renewable-energy projects, he wants NRG to provide long-term contracts that improve their financeability.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

In May 2004, Railroad Commission Assistant District Director Mike Houston visited the Lotus facility and noted , “There are still some pollution concerns.” The letter stated that the conditions observed violated Texas Statewide Rule 8, which regards water pollution and oilfield waste pits.

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