The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

It gave rise to an era of unprecedented groundwater pumping fueled by free and subsidized electricity. Now, the Government is encouraging farmers to cultivate rice by offering free power turned out to be a ticking bomb disguised as a boon, leading to drastic overexploitation of the aquifers despite the presence of five rivers.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s straws were still contributing to our waste problem using a linear economy rather than a circular one. A small reduction in plastic consumption and waste (although a step in the right-direction) should not be applauded as a sustainable move without addressing the wider challenges just mentioned. Energy Star.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

For decades, oil and gas companies disposed of millions of barrels of waste down that hole, ringed with cement and steel, dubbing the wastewater well Freshwater City SWD 01, according to state records. potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. Ranking Louisiana’s Orphan Wells.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Between 2008 and 2019, the average amount of meat eaten each day per person in the UK fell from just under 104g to a little more than 86g, according to the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Broad awareness of the issues at stake is not limited to a small minority, but neither has it yet reached an overwhelming majority.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

While 70% of total expenditures are directed toward “Clean Energy & Clean Air” investments, additional claims on those funds may diminish the amount made available for direct emission reduction activities. 3 Less coverage generally lowers price signal impacts, unless the changes for those sectors require a much higher price signal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. Makower: Great.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

That's why [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.". Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Sponsored Article. Source: Photoagriculture.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. This is called photosynthesis. Literally.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. And there are still no federal standards for ambient benzene exposure — the amount that people who live near industrial facilities can safely breathe as they go about their daily lives.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

That’s why [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.” And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. Source: Photoagriculture Shutterstock Photoagriculture Close Authorship.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

New Energy Policy Tracker reveals support for fossil fuel industries has outstripped support for clean energy across the G20, but is there time to change course? Even where clean energy funding has been awarded, the cleanest energy sources have been marginalised, with only $16bn earmarked for wind and solar projects.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Val Verde’s success served as a replicable model enabling the oil industry to pump more oil while claiming to be helping the climate.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Today, however, these are tightly-controlled tracts of land where the company harvests fast-growing, non-native tree varieties such as eucalyptus and acacia at an industrial scale to feed its huge pulp and paper factory. But such rapid industrial and economic growth has come at a price.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic brought the broader economy to a halt, but the energy storage industry didn't get the memo. Large-scale projects reached new heights, including LS Power's completion of the largest battery in the world, just in time to help California grapple with its summer power shortage.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

The NTSB has no enforcement capability, so its recommendations are often ignored by the rail industry. The rail industry has frequently argued that ECP brakes don’t work and are too costly. An industry spokesperson recently said the modern brakes, “have a ‘significant’ failure rate and lengthy repair time that makes them impractical.”

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