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

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. But that trend sets the world on a collision course with the climate targets laid out in the Paris Agreement. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Scientists have known this in a roundabout way for a long time: After all, the coal and oil deposits that have fueled civilization since the Industrial Revolution come from ancient marsh and marine ecosystems that, after accumulating huge quantities of carbon, were buried and fossilized over millions of years.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. She attributes her exploding case of asthma to air pollutants from the mill. “I communities and destroyed U.S. I use a nebulizer now.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 94

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

E looks to reduce a company’s energy use , waste , and pollution while helping to protect natural resources through conservation. For instance, a 2020 report by Carrots and Sticks gives three interesting insights: The total number of voluntary and mandatory provisions in different countries has increased significantly since 2006.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. xii] [xiii]. April 5, 2019.

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 44

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The birth of the B Corp movement and its evolution over the years B Lab was founded in the United States in 2006 by three friends – Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Cassoy – who shared a vision – to use business as a force for good. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), degrees C (2.7 degrees F).

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Fossil fuels Law Global warming Climate change 88

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 120

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 78

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. She is the National Finance Director for US Youth Climate Strike and hails from a Lebanese and Syrian immigrant family, having fled during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon by Israeli forces. Howey Ou is from Guilin, China.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari this week signed the country's first Climate Change Act into law , just days after the government announced a new target to deliver net zero emissions by 2060.

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Climate change Nuclear Power Africa Law 38

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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