Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. That would be an environmental disaster of a magnitude with few historic parallels.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The California Supreme Court held that the EIR did not adequately discuss potential health consequences that could be caused by a significant increase in pollutants resulting from the development project. The EIR Failed to Connect Significant Project Emissions to Potential Human Health Impacts. Background for Appeal.

Health 40

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The California Supreme Court held that the EIR did not adequately discuss potential health consequences that could be caused by a significant increase in pollutants resulting from the development project. The EIR Failed to Connect Significant Project Emissions to Potential Human Health Impacts. Background for Appeal.

Health 40

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. But we were not required to by law. ” Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. It grew food.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

Energy Monitor 85

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 85

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

Plastics 96

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

Home Energy Monitoring 534

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Pollution 534

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” Geological Survey report noted.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 118

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Since 2011, the state has spent more than $3 billion on it, largely to upgrade sewage and drinking water plants. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

Agriculture 116

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 116

Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Today, philanthropy has been strategically accepted for the sole benefit of the ‘organization’, not for others. billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The Food , shelter, cloth, education, health and security are people’s rights not a charity work nor a matter of donation.

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Investment Government Policy Sustainability 40

AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

Home Energy Monitoring 28

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Business Energy Monitoring 28

AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S. Tiger abuse in the U.S.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Ethics Organic 28

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

Energy Monitor 88

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

Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

.” A local salon was also tagged with a message accusing Georgia Power of “telling a lie” to residents about the plant’s health risks. The acquired land could tell a story about the environmental and public health costs of inviting a coal plant to town. The Altamaha Riverkeeper has already plotted its next steps in Juliette.

Home Energy Monitoring 136

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 136

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. Greg Gianforte signed it into law on March 16. The move comes as a June trial date approaches for a youth-led climate lawsuit against the state. In the lawsuit, Held v. Republican Gov.

Policy 85

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. At the height of the crisis, more than 4.5 million customers across the state were without power.

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