The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 14, 2020

When these habitats are disturbed as a result of things like pollution or man-made developments, the creatures that live within them are threatened as well. Not only are these products a lifeline for our animals, but they are better for your own health too. You will make a difference to the environment and to your own health!

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

This week, Energy Innovation updated the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. Health Impacts. Version 3.3 of the EPS builds on the previously released version 3.2.1

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 1, 2021

EPA proposed new regulations to reduce methane and other harmful air pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and natural gas industry. Diverse oil and gas companies, trade associations, investors, public health organizations, and environmental groups support the rule. In November 2021, the U.S. per barrel annually.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, or WHO, published an update to its air quality guidelines — the international rubric that sets non-binding standards for safe levels of air pollution for the world’s countries. It sets higher standards for almost every pollutant the organization monitors. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

This is despite the government’s 2021 Decarbonising Transport Plan , which lauded the Labour mayor’s efforts on air pollution for its “significant impact on air quality” and on “reducing the number of older, more polluting vehicles that enter London’s central zone.” million times, at a cost to the party of up to £19,100.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Talking Trash critically analysed voluntary commitments from the ten biggest plastic polluters (Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mars Incorporated, Mondel?z Plastic is now pouring into the natural world at a rate of one garbage truck a minute, creating a crisis for wildlife, the climate and public health. Case study: Coca-Cola.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

Impacts on health and well-being Low-income households surveyed who had lost access to a car noted, too, that it impacted health care and caregiving responsibilities because they no longer had a car to access medical care or to bring children to school.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Not the private interests of the biggest polluters on the planet.”

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2021

They found that from 2005 to 2014, hospitalization and death rates in Pennsylvania were 1.4% The study mainly considered the density of fracking wells and adjusted for coal production and access to health insurance, which can affect medical care. higher than in New York. more likely to die by heart attack than those in New York.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution? View on DocumentCloud.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. And it’s certainly not the diamond darter alone that’s feeling the brunt of this mountaintop removal-linked water pollution. Potentially Lethal Levels’. The diamond darter. Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

ESG gained traction following the publication of the 2005 report Who Cares Wins. Each category within ESG overlaps with the 3 pillars of corporate sustainability, as we explain: Environment : This includes corporate climate policies, energy use, waste, pollution, natural resource conservation, and the treatment of animals.

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Grist

JANUARY 20, 2022

The climate crisis is damaging the health of fetuses, babies, and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Higher temperatures were also linked to premature birth, which can have lifelong health effects, and to increased hospital admissions of young children. This is a problem that affects everybody, everywhere.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No The plan is also expected to create four million new jobs and save Californians $200bn in health costs that result from pollution. This is the new way to address the climate crisis.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Energy Innovation has launched its largest-ever update to the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source and peer-reviewed computer model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. But energy production has additional environmental implications – in 2005, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the country grapples with the intertwined issues of air pollution, water scarcity and energy security, along with energy access and affordability, experts say they’re starting to see a future for India where coal will no longer be king. Challenges lie ahead, but there may be cause for optimism. Solar ticks every one of those boxes.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The plan includes climate adaptation measures across seven sectors - water, agriculture, land, forestry, human settlement, health, transport, and mining - as well as measures to scale up hydropower and solar energy, improve energy efficiency and rollout electric vehicles, the according to the news site.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S. It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a separate complaint, Dye also urged OPUC staff to follow up on alleged deficiencies in NW Natural’s gas meter testing practices the agency previously overlooked when it investigated the company’s meter testing program in 2005.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 17, 2022

On August 7, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Act), which would provide about $369 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below their 2005 levels by 2030 as well as reduce carbon emissions and invest in renewable energy. Allocated $32.5 Tax Credits. Allocated $1.10

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 5, 2024

Reaching net-zero means whatever amount of climate pollution is emitted into the atmosphere is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed from the atmosphere by carbon sinks or carbon removal technologies. to reduce emissions 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, reaching net-zero by 2050. direct air capture) after the fact.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. Or rather, the dogs do.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. E looks to reduce a company’s energy use , waste , and pollution while helping to protect natural resources through conservation. Social performance: Selected criteria are used to analyze a company’s business and personal relationships.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

From 2005 to 2015, dairy’s gaseous output increased by 18 percent. 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2021

We could create thousands of jobs, but instead we are paying industry to pollute and worsening the climate crisis.”. In April 2021, Canada announced a new climate target, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, a commitment widely seen as underwhelming. In fact, the U.N.

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 26, 2020

Our health care system and economy risk collapsing under the weight. In this vein, seemingly political questions like “Should everyone have some basic health care coverage?” If there isn’t a basic floor of access to energy, water, food, and health care for everyone , we’re all at risk. If we don’t all thrive, none of us will.

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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. Instead, the TCEQ has allowed K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in Channelview’s Jacintoport neighborhood, to expand its operations four times since the problem was discovered in 2005.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So the federal government, provincial, territorial, municipal, and the local orders of government need a seat at the table; so too do Indigenous leadership – First Nations, Métis, and Inuit – around the same table, finding common ground on urgent issues like health care, on the climate emergency, and working together in the public interest.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Gas stoves emit pollutants like nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide that can contribute to respiratory illnesses. Participation in a gas front group risks tarnishing the renewables-friendly image Xcel has cultivated.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Analysis firm Rhodium Group estimates that it will reduce CO2 emissions by 31–44% below 2005 levels in 2030, as compared to 24–35% under current policy. This funding includes direct investments in technology, infrastructure, and other needs of communities that have been striving for better health, resilience, and access.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. American Trucking Associations , the trucking industry argued that the EPA should consider implementation costs when setting pollution limits. In 2001’s Whitman v. Losing a hero is hard. Sponsored Article.

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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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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

Carbon-wise, it’s proven to be a big success: By 2017, RGGI had already surpassed its 2020 goal of reducing emissions 45 percent below 2005 levels. A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives on Wednesday shows the program has been a boon to public health, too.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Having employees working from home will lower your real estate and operational costs, increase worker productivity, and improve employee satisfaction while reducing pollution from commuting to work. Across the globe, working from home and remote locations has grown by 159% since 2005. Industries Change Fast, Businesses Must Adapt.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. American Trucking Associations , the trucking industry argued that the EPA should consider implementation costs when setting pollution limits. In 2001’s Whitman v. Losing a hero is hard.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 3, 2022

Longtime residents of Ontario may well remember the summer of 2005. The province shuttered its coal power plants, eliminating hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution. The province shuttered its coal power plants, eliminating hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution. The reason was simple: Ontario took action.

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