DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Despite the numerous residential fertilizer ordinances passed since 2011, water quality, harmful algal blooms, and seagrass loss, which has resulted in mass deaths of the threatened Florida manatee, have continued to worsen.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 27, 2020

The Panelists include: Bruce Lourie, Ivey Foundation Bruce is president of the Ivey Foundation, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Finance, both at Queen’s University, and visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford Social Finance Programme.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

She has advised world leaders, governments, multilateral agencies and civil society organisations on climate change, environmental policy and development assistance. Tara’s book How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time is a guide to sustainable living told through everyday objects. “It’s not all work!

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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. Policy & Politics. The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The UK’s Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on measures to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, estimates that the combined policies will cost less than 1 percent of GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. It’s used as grounds for companies to escape fulfilling the climate policies coming out of COP28, and has real-life, tangible consequences. Credit: ABLF (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

If we don't take these measures, we are just starting the timer on the next global health crisis.". Land has reportedly tripled since 2011 to 8.4 The report suggests this increase is partly driven by policy shifts, including a move towards renewable energy. million hectares, equivalent to an area bigger than Scotland.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. as clients.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

Related: NYC Metronome clock now displays deadline for irreversible global warming Using that definition, the researchers found that from 1952 to 2011, the number of summer days in the Northern Hemisphere increased from 78 to 95. Numerous studies have already shown that the changing seasons cause significant environmental and health risks.”

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Priti Patel's latest attack on green policies makes little sense and offers no alternative vision for the future - it deserves to be rejected, line-by-line The attacks on the UK's climate policies are now coming thick and fast. There have been citizens assemblies, myriad policy consultations, and thousands of MPs' surgeries.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When the government recently announced its intention to increase National Insurance to pay for a £12bn investment in health and social care, I can't have been alone in thinking about other ways in which they could raise the funds. Chris Sherrington is head of environmental policy and economics at Eunomia Research & Consulting.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. Oreskes and Conway even spotted overlap in the operatives carrying out this strategy, as figures like tobacco lobbyist Steven Milloy made a seamless transition from denying the health impacts of secondhand smoke to smearing climate scientists.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So we can build these policies that will become a postcard from the future for the rest of the country,” said David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission, speaking last week at a UCLA summit on state and local progress toward 100 percent clean energy. 100% targets come in different forms. Washington D.C.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

A change in the policy landscape seems imminent, as Envirotec found out. Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. We don’t know enough to inform policy. What do we know? Again, this has been observed at laboratory scale.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Researchers in the Netherlands surveyed 30 studies to see if emphasizing climate change as a pressing, localized problem would motivate people to support environmental policies, donate to environmental organizations, or switch to lower-carbon practices like cutting down on driving.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Less widely recognized threats, like dissolved metals and other molecular health hazards, lurk in runoff from industrial sources, home waste, and building materials. But the $300 billion global bottled water industry is propelled not just by actual threats to human health from municipal and shared drinking water sources. Benjamin M.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The joint-largest donation to the Conservatives during this period was made by Graham Edwards, a board member at the influential Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). The UK’s net zero policies have already faced criticism for failing to keep pace with the required speed of change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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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. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2011, Ophelia launched The Noble Foundation whose familiar tagline is “Recognizing and centering the innate power of community.” In 2018 The Noble Foundation’s focus shifted to Social and Environmental Justice.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Now we need large-scale actions that are good for human health and good for the planet.". But while emissions fell in 64 countries, they have increased in 150 countries, and overall global emissions grew by 0.21 per cent annually, and Russia's by 0.2

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 8, 2021

Build monitoring, supervision, and resiliency mechanisms to observe, react to, and maintain platform health, performance, and security. Experience supporting Information Security policies, controls, and initiatives. Sila was founded in 2011 and is based in Alameda, CA. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When we started Better Ventures in 2011, we had a lot of explaining to do. There weren’t many VCs focused on mission-driven tech startups in 2011, but it’s great to see interest grow dramatically in the last 12 years as more investors have recognized the opportunity, especially in climate tech.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Employing an all-too familiar rhetoric, Penrose urges the government to "[cut] the size and weight of these regulatory millstones around the neck of our economy", suggesting the reinstatement of various policy tools to aid this process. Deregulation - out-of-step with Britons? Red-tape-cutting - lessons from history.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 9, 2021

Likely the most widely-cited and influential analysis of California’s pollution-equity trends in the first several years of its Cap-and-Invest program is a 2018 paper led by Lara Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch titled Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The paper reports that 52% of facilities considered reported emission increases between 2011-12 and 2013-15.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The paper reports that 52% of facilities considered reported emission increases between 2011-12 and 2013-15.

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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. But the tides underfoot shape the health, economy, environment, and very essence of her town. It’s likely to be a hot spot where these things will happen early,” Hill said.

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