DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

3: Sketchy Oil and Gas Waste. Also this year, DeSmog investigated a criminal complaint filed by a group of lawyers in Argentina against a fracking waste disposal company and government officials. 7: Investigating Radioactive Waste at a Texas Disposal Site. Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We

Building Energy Monitoring 532

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 532

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The natural world has a system for everything, including a natural waste cycle that turns dead plants and trees into food and soil for other living things. The program launched in mid-September with a focus on high producers of compostable waste such as restaurants , bars and other businesses.

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Soil Waste Waste Recycling 36

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. Indeed, part of the land that the Micmac obtained in 2009 was previously used as a firefighting testing area. Its roots are deep and profuse — the better to uptake pollutants from soil.

Soil 145

Soil Pollution Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 145

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.

Pollution 45

Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. ” Background on Earth Day.

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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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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. His most recent investigation dove into what went wrong at a facility that aimed to turn radioactive fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. From the U.S.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. How we create livelihoods, how we meet our needs, and ultimately how we manage our economy is critical to reducing pollution and achieving our vision of climate justice. A Regenerative Economy.

Building Energy Monitoring 71

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 71

Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Chemical: emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms. 2009; Steffen, W., There are nine planetary boundaries identified. I invite you to join me there and share your thoughts.

Biodiversity 53

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Resilience Real Estate 53

AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Specifically, Sainsbury’s cut the number of bags they gave away by 58% in the two years that followed the campaign, giving out 312m fewer bags in 2008 than 2009 and saving 13,200 tonnes of virgin plastic over two years.” According to a press release from the company, “The British Retail Consortium estimated that in 2006, the U.K.

Plastics 28

Plastics Recycling Recycling Carbon-neutral 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Specifically, Sainsbury’s cut the number of bags they gave away by 58% in the two years that followed the campaign, giving out 312m fewer bags in 2008 than 2009 and saving 13,200 tonnes of virgin plastic over two years.” According to a press release from the company, “The British Retail Consortium estimated that in 2006, the U.K.

Plastics 28

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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. Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal.

Pollution 95

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Methane Home Energy Monitoring 95

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

AVTA says in addition to slashed carbon emissions and local air pollution, it's been able to save 769,231 gallons of diesel fuel, the equivalent of more than $1 million in fuel cost savings. . Its goals are to reduce its fleet's energy consumption by 35 percent below 2009 levels by 2025 and 60 percent by 2040. . Schneider Electric.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

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. A police report sketch of the accident that killed Luke Cole in June 2009 in Uganda. A Tragic Accident.

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Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 99

Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”. There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey.

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Earth Day Home Energy Monitoring Ozone Energy Monitor 96

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. Pavement is degrading faster.

Energy Monitor 139

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 139

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. The problems in South Africa and elsewhere are blessings in disguise for Shell because every dollar in exploration is wasted.”.

Africa 69

Africa Fossil fuels Government Carbon-negative 69

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 513

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 513

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.

Pollution 28

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S.

Business Energy Monitoring 158

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 158

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Less waste than / Less toxic than. That means spelling out, for instance, that the bottle produces 20 percent less waste than the previous version of the product. Also avoid it if you're slapping this phrase on a product that normally wouldn't contain that absent substance in the first place. Less than what? Made with renewable energy.

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

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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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

48C was enacted in 2009 and fully allocated in 2013. Provides $10 billion of allocations, at least $4 billion of which must be allocated to energy communities. New or Modified Provision: Modified and extended.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. “We

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 36

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Second generation biofuels aspire to use industrial, agricultural, municipal or household waste, such as: used cooking oil, fat, corn husks, forest resources, or food waste. There is a very limited quantity of “sustainable waste” available globally for second generation biofuels. Biofuels would compete with other applications.

Aviation 69

Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 69

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The initiative seeks submissions from startups whose technologies are creating value from the capture or conversion of carbon waste, with net-zero or negative emissions. SUEZ, headquartered in France, is a global leader in essential environmental services with water, sanitation, waste collection, and recovery activities.

Business Energy Monitoring 57

Business Energy Monitoring Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Startups 57

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

There are many actions breweries can take to reduce their environmental footprint, prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and be a model of sustainability. These actions are needed as the brewing process is energy-intensive, uses large amounts of water, and generates high volumes of wastewater and organic waste.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Agriculture 148

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. Putting a price on pollution. How do you fix the gap?”

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor COP 246

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. Tapped, 2009 Plastic is a well-known environmental issue.

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Global warming Plastics Waste Waste 28

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, Franses also suggests that the plan is in line with a history of corporate climate leadership from CCEP, pointing out that the firm, which is part-owned by the Coca-Cola Company, was among the first 10 companies globally to set a science-based target back in 2009 and has reduced its emissions by more than 30 per cent over the past decade.

Plastics 74

Plastics Carbon-neutral Recycling Recycling 74

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The text is weakened by a lack of specificity on key targets, including species protection, business impacts, and plastic pollution, as well as the absence of a mandatory reporting framework with strict timelines that would hold governments to account. And the final piece is through philanthropic initiatives.

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 40

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. Multiple enquiries would clear the researchers of any wrongdoing.

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

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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. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

Energy Monitor 88

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 88

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The new rules will permit the reintroduction of showerheads that waste enormous amounts of water and energy, increasing utility bills and greenhouse gas emissions. asked readers in 2009. The latest multi-nozzle showerheads would not only needlessly waste water, exacerbating shortages caused by drought. Change your showerhead."

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