AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Related: This “super plant” can actually absorb air pollution Past scandals Let’s time travel back to the “diesel dupe” of 2015. But post-exam, it cranked up and spewed up to 40 times above the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants allowed by U.S. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

A 2018 pledge by ministers to eliminate waste crime is in doubt as organised crime groups enjoy rising returns from tax avoidance, fly-tipping and other waste-related crimes, at the same time as waste prosecutions conducted by the Environment Agency have fallen from a peak of 800 in 2007/08 to just 50 per year in the period up to the pandemic.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

From a resource depletion perspective, orbital space can be thought of as an environment that is getting polluted by debris creation events. Source: European Space Agency The problem with this pollution is that not all debris is trackable. Lab-simulated hypervelocity impact. NASA’s Atlantis space shuttle on its 19th mission to the ISS.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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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. ” December 10 2007. xii] [xiii]. April 5, 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

They are aimed at the cheapest solution, the least-cost, shortest distance between two points the pollution source and the dump. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. The CO2 pipeline buildout is shaping up to be the biggest environmental justice insult ever.

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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. In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Running was a major contributor to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report , and shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore. court – the first was in 2007. Another new law, signed by Gov. History Being Made” in Montana According to Prof.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”. Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (middle) and B.C.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

“The [Colorado] river itself is bearing a huge burden for this, in terms of the environmental flows of the river,” said John Fleck, writer-in-residence at the Utton Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law. billion gallons in 2007 to 57 billion gallons in 2020 — a 30 percent decline.

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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. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today. ppb, a 40% increase.

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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. If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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Green Technology

JUNE 7, 2018

The Clean Air Act empowers the EPA to regulate air pollution from motor vehicles. To promote uniformity, the law generally bars states from regulating car emissions. But when the Clean Air Act was passed, California was already developing innovative laws and standards to address its unique air pollution problems.

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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. If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. In 1997, the federal government formed a hypoxia task force in an effort to stem the flow of fertilizer pollution.

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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Backtracking on bulb standards agreed in 2007 In a Grinch-like move just before the holidays, the Trump Administration announced that it will block the energy-saving lightbulb standards signed into law by President George Bush in 2007 from entering into effect as planned on January 1, 2020. Overall, you save 83% with the LED.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? China currently emits more CO 2 than any other country, but by most estimates the United States has been the largest contributor when measured historically between 1850 and 2007. are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting technology.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has spent $4 billion to fix this with a system of deep tunnels, stopping more than 145 billion gallons of pollution from spilling into Lake Michigan since the early 1990s. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

and Canadian emissions, which, if opponents have their way, would bring the total carbon pollution avoided due to Indigenous resistance to 1.6 That’s roughly equal to the pollution from 400 new coal-fired power plants or 345 million passenger vehicles. These projects represent another 12 percent of total U.S.

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