Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Government insists energy use remains a 'decision for individuals', as accused Liz Truss of having 'sewage on her hands' over water quality spending cuts. The government has again rejected calls for it to launch a campaign to encourage households and businesses to save energy, insisting that energy use remains a "decision for individuals".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New planning guidance announced by the Mayor of London will mean future developments have to include measures to mitigate impacts on air quality Developers in London will have to assess the impact new building projects could have on local pollution levels before proceeding with construction, under plans unveiled by Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

That is the headline conclusion of Labour's new analysis of Environment Agency (EA) data which shows that the country's rivers, lakes, seas, and beaches have faced "staggering" levels of sewage pollution over the past seven years. At the end of last year, the Party revealed sewage discharged more than doubled from 14.7

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We have globally seen a record breaking fire season in 2023, and from Canada to California, Planet data has been leveraged to monitor and prepare for these fires, helping protect civilians and conserve natural resources. Over the years, our data has also provided critical insights for managing and mitigating bushfires in Australia.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

The UK's advertising industry has been accused of pushing "persuasive and dishonest messaging" that encourages city and town dwellers to buy large, carbon-intensive cars they do not need, following fresh analysis revealing the overwhelming majority of SUV purchases are registered to urban addresses.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%)*. Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. percent per year since 2010, to 2.6

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April. The 2018 Three ?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April. The 2018 Three ?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It comes amidst a growing public campaign in protest at the practice of wastewater plants releasing sewage into waterways in the wake of heavy rains, which saw the government accused of failing to adequately tackle dangerous levels of pollution. If we find there has been, we will use all of our powers to hold companies to account.".

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The case for business sustainability. 90% of executives believe sustainability is important in business. Today, it’s incontestable that instituting a sustainability strategy is good business. That is, more and more studies indicate business sustainability delivers greater prosperity, and designs organizations to last.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. Two scoping hearings I attending this year held by the U.S. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? Corporate attendance has been typically limited to a handful of extractive industry and pharmaceutical firms, who attend in a largely defensive capacity.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Suddenly you realise that power, beauty and money are worthless, and won't get you the oxygen you're fighting for. A sika deer crossing the road in Japan… Himalayas seen for the first time in 30 years from 200 kilometers away in the northern Indian state of Punjab due to a sharp drop in air pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Over the last decade, we have seen a move away from the traditional design-bid-build process and alternative delivery methods such as progressive design-build, construction management at risk (CMAR), and others became more popular in supporting the delivery of large, complex, capital projects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

The same trend has documented across much of Europe, as soaring sales for electric vehicles and low emission models are more than offset by increased demand for heavier and more polluting SUVs, which made up four in 10 of the UK's new car sales last year. However, this trend has come at considerable environmental costs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

The creative industries have a pivotal role to play in the net zero transition, but can they really inspire sustained shifts in public opinion and behaviours? As in any industry, the first step to minimising environmental impacts is to identify where the main culprits are to be found.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Scientists have warned global greenhouse gas emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030 from 2010 levels to track a pathway towards net zero, in line with limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5C Company climate pledges for 2030 also fell "well short" of economy-wide emission reductions required to stay below the 1.5C

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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. Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. times higher than any other state allows.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. A spokesperson from his office told DeSmog: “Robert has no shares in this, or any other company in a related business.

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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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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Dymic Digital has been widely praised for his or her expeditious adoption of cutting-edge digital advertising options, which has made them extremely sought-after domestically and internationally by businesses of all sizes. ?A There have been several criticisms of bitcoin, including that the mining system is enormously power hungry.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Big businesses often find it cheaper to pay somebody like Garrett to trap more carbon than it is for them to change their ways. Nori, the carbon-market broker Garrett began working with last year, allows farmers to make money for carbon-sequestering practices, like avoiding the plow, they started anytime after 2010. Grainfill Creative.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

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Grist

JANUARY 4, 2022

Islands were overrun by omnivorous, aggressive gulls, fattened significantly by landfill garbage along the coasts and fishing industry waste. In retrospect, 21st century human threats were already building on a global scale. Amid his efforts, the world’s seabird populations were in the process of dropping 70 percent from 1950 to 2010.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

As the chief toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state environmental protection agency, Honeycutt had developed a reputation for holding fringe views on air pollution. In those cases, advocates agreed that the board put science before deference to industry and the president.

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