DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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GreenBiz

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years. in 73 countries. across 12,000 sites.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

In times of crisis, like the 2009 financial crisis or COVID-19, investors are compelled to take a closer look at corporate governance practices like disaster contingency plans, cybersecurity risk management and decisions about capital structure — [such as] share buybacks & M&A activity. . Houde: Is this a moment of reckoning for the S in ESG?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle, it is only fair that those responsible for carpet pollution should be forced to pay for the damage they cause.” Also, CRUK claims that this is recycling, while in reality, shredded carpet cannot be used again and ends up polluting the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in what they say will be Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” since 2009. It impacts our mental and physical health.”. There’s excessive noise pollution. Your House Vibrates’.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Their farm, once part of the Loring Air Force Base, is also a Superfund site — an area so polluted it’s marked high-priority for federal cleanup. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity. If a farm’s soil is polluted, odds are the water will be too.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. Legal protection.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers followed this reintroduced population and tracked their distribution and health. benefit the diversity of freshwater invertebrates, reduce nutrient levels in outflow, filter pollution and ?allow Now they’re back. In 2015, two beaver families were released on the River Otter in Devon. Reconciling ranchers and rewilders.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In Colorado, residential and commercial buildings are primary sources of climate and air pollution. And this industry was critical to job growth in the wake of the last economic crisis, with a few hundred thousand efficiency workers in 2009 expanding to nearly 2.4 both indoors and outdoors. million nationwide in just ten years2019.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

The state had just begun implementation of the cap & trade program, and I was enamored with this new post–AB 32 & SB 535 world that charged polluters and used a fund to bring resources back into communities most impacted by pollution. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . Healthy Communities Rooted in Place Photo by Hannah Letinich.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The data from CDP's 2022 corporate water security dataset saw a total of 3,909 companies provide water-related data to investors and customers, marking the highest number of companies disclosing on water security since the survey began in 2009 and an 85 per cent increase over the past five years.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. billion in support provided since 2009. We analyzed hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4 We’ll keep following the money in 2024. From the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. xii] [xiii].

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Exxon , Cole was unexpectedly killed on June 6, 2009, while on sabbatical in Uganda.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

It was founded in 2009 by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

In times of crisis, like the 2009 financial crisis or COVID-19, investors are compelled to take a closer look at corporate governance practices like disaster contingency plans, cybersecurity risk management and decisions about capital structure — [such as] share buybacks & M&A activity. Ingram: Yes, I believe so.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The report also highlights how in addition to the short term economic boost a green investment surge would deliver multiple health and well-being benefits, at a time when air pollution and unhealthy lifestyles have been identified as an exacerbating factor in the coronavirus pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This dynamic, according to a review of two decades of electric utility rate changes published by scholars in 2009 , creates “a bias toward the status quo or an ‘ossification’ of agency rulemaking as the expected benefits of a new policy may be outweighed by the costs of affecting the change.”. .”

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby. That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. The city of Richmond exists in the shadow of the nearby Chevron refinery, which has been connected to poor air quality and health issues in the nearby community.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Accelerating innovation and spurring demand for clean hydrogen will help decarbonize high-polluting, heavy-duty and industrial sectors, while delivering good-paying clean energy jobs. “As For more information, visit www.greentownlabs.com or Twitter , Facebook , and LinkedIn.

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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. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth. In the U.S.,

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. Now those areas have both polluted soil from military or industrial activities, [and] they also have rising groundwater,” Hill said. In 2009, high levels of fecal coliform, bacteria like E.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. These issues require systemic efforts, cooperation, and pricing of those “externalities” (like pollution and carbon emissions) that business has been able to push off to society.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. These issues require systemic efforts, cooperation, and pricing of those “externalities” (like pollution and carbon emissions) that business has been able to push off to society.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) is a member of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group (MCHC Group) and advances a mission of creating innovative solutions globally based on core values of sustainability, health, and comfort—striving for the well-being of people, society, and our planet Earth. 27, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. Urban Future Lab.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. billion years of evolution. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the climate crisis accelerates, so, too, do efforts by the fossil fuel industry to derail steep reductions in carbon pollution by mid-century, in part by promoting false solutions. We recently shone a light on the way the gas industry borrowed Big Tobacco’s tactics to promote doubt over the health effects of gas stoves.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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