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Trump's COVID Denial Mirrors Romney’s Climate Denial in 2012, Hurting Election Bid

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Back in 2012, climate science denial created an “October Surprise” moment for the presidential election and a turning point against the presidential prospects of Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Read time: 7 mins Originally published by The Real News Network.

Premature Nuclear Reactor Retirements Could Effect Nuclear Waste Disposal

Jim Conca

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2012, 12 commercial reactors have shut down in the U.S., with 27 more planned by 2026, a loss of at least 37,000 MW of capacity and about 5 trillion kWhs from their expected life. The effects may be profound, from a loss of $8 billion in NWFund revenues to the orphaning of their nuclear waste.

Waste

Waste Waste Energy Energy

Seed preservation is vital for a sustainable food system

GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2020

With a background in social work, Hare-RedCorn was brought on to the Pawnee Seed Preservation Project in 2012 as a seed-keeper, to carry the conversation forward with youth and families. But they’re also… spirituality," says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a Yankton descendant.

Sustainability

Sustainability Agriculture

Draught-proofing for chimneys picks up Queen’s Award

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

After developing and patenting the Chimney Sheep, Phillips took the product to market in 2012 not knowing what demand would be like for her innovation. In 2012, 1700 were sold. Wool is a natural insulator, but also breathable, which is important for chimneys in older properties.”. Sales have grown year on year.

Energy

Energy Energy Patents Innovation

Study: $36bn invested in carbon credit projects between 2012 and 2022

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Investment in carbon credit projects has soared in recent years, according to industry-backed research

Carbon

Carbon Investment

Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Fossil fuel issuance fell by 85 per cent from $70bn to just $10bn between 2012 and 2020, the Carbon Tracker report said, while renewables raised a record $11bn from public equity offerings in 2020 alone.

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Carbon Energy Energy

Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

In 2012, Starbucks reported its average price for green beans was $2.56 If Starbucks returned to its 2012 broker and farmer prices, it nearly would double family income on most small farms. According to the United Nations, the ratio between what the farmer was paid and what the companies sold their coffee for was 1:3 during the 1970s.

Sustainability

Sustainability Climate change Ethics Soil

Report details role of digital tracking in construction waste management

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Announced as a notion by the Environment Act 2012 to replace the existing paper-based system, the new tracking system will mark a new era for land and waste recovery, says the group. The introduction of a mandatory digital waste tracking system in the UK is imminent.

Waste

Waste Waste Construction Recycling

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents encouraged to recycle their metal packaging

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

Since its launch in 2012, more than 119 local authorities have adopted MetalMatters, with recycling rates improving in result.

Recycling

Recycling Recycling Packaging Waste

Who are net-zero leaders and laggards in food?

GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

Post Holdings sources less than 2% of its energy from renewables, has not responded to any CDP surveys sent since 2012 and has not announced an emissions target. Post Holdings sources less than 2% of its energy from renewables, has not responded to any CDP surveys sent since 2012 and has not announced an emissions target. Pull Quote.

Agriculture

Agriculture Sustainability Global warming Carbon

Right to repair is on the way

GreenBiz

APRIL 5, 2021

In November, Massachusetts passed a resolution to bolster its 2012 automotive right to repair law — the first and only right to repair law on the books in the U.S. Despite its limited scope, the 2012 law led to a national standard for automakers and the recent resolution is expected to have similar effects.

Waste

Waste Waste Carbon Law

Accelerate at Circularity 20: Fast-Pitch Competition

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute At Circularity 20, GreenBiz’s online circular economy event, five startups presented their potentially world-altering ideas during the Accelerate competition. minute pitch of their technology to the audience.

Incubators

Incubators Incubators Startups Investment

International Renewable Energy Agency - Renewables Jobs Nearly Doubled in Past Decade, Soared to 13.7 Million in 2022 Employment expands despite crises and challenges and growing use of industrial policies can create more localised supply chains, a new report finds.

Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

million in 2012, according to a new report by the International. Worldwide employment in renewable energy reached 13.7 million in 2022, an increase of one million since 2021 and up from a total of 7.3

Energy

Energy Energy Policy Climate change

Monarch Private Capital Backs 300+ MW of Solar Energy Installations

Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” Monarch entered the renewable energy space in 2012, engaging tax equity financing to create a sustainable future as part of its mission to positively impact communities. creating nearly 12,000 jobs.

Energy

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Solar Power

Microsoft's Elizabeth Willmott on the company's carbon neutrality commitment

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Microsoft has been committed to reaching carbon neutrality in its operations since 2012. It has since set a goal to reduce its scope 3 emissions by 30 percent.

Carbon-neutral

Carbon-neutral Carbon Energy Energy

Firm receives InnovateUK funding to enhance vessel performance monitoring technology

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Reygar was founded in 2012 by Chris Huxley-Reynard and Felix Francis, both of whom have extensive, hands-on experience in offshore renewables, maritime operations and the application of new technologies for efficient fleet operations.

Technology

Technology Health Construction Innovation

Public urged to keep watch for tree pest oak processionary moth

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

A Government programme to manage OPM has been in place since 2012. “The caterpillars and their nests can also cause irritation when touched by members of the public. As such, I would advise that those living in London and the surrounding areas avoid the pest.”

Health

Health Government Policy Investment

Solar Service Provider EnergyAid Initiates U.S. Expansion

Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company was founded in 2012, but two years ago EnergyAid began offering solar maintenance and repair services. EnergyAid , a California-based provider of service, maintenance, tune-ups and system evaluations for residential customers, is expanding throughout the United States.

Solar Energy Monitor

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring

First Solar Settles Shareholder Suit for $350M

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

First Solar will pay out $350 million in claims for a class action lawsuit filed in 2012, according to a Monday announcement from the Arizona-based solar panel manufacturer. The 2012 suit alleged that First Solar failed to provide a clear picture of its warranty-related costs “or recklessly disregarded them” in financial filings.

Logging

Logging Construction Investment

Ascent Solar Product Trials Reach 15.2 Percent Cell Production Efficiency

Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

standard efficiency measured for production material in 2012. Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic solutions, has achieved cell production efficiency of 15.2% in its CIGS solar technology, a significant increase from the 10.8%

Solar Power

Solar Power Waste Waste Technology

Government’s renewables targets at risk as auction sees no bids for offshore wind??????

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The low Administrative Strike Price (ASP) 1 of £44 per MWh (in 2012 prices) offered under AR5 was deemed by many to be insufficient to meet the development costs. High inflation, rising capital costs, and increased interest rates left developers fearing they may not get a return on their investments.

Hydropower

Hydropower Government Energy Energy

Vermont contractor brings needed savings to dairy farmers with community solar

Solar Power World

JULY 26, 2023

From 2012 to 2022, the number of small Vermont dairy farms… The post Vermont contractor brings needed savings to dairy farmers with community solar appeared first on Solar Power World. Vermont is the most rural-populated state in the nation, illustrated by its rolling green mountains dotted with rustic old barns and grazing cows.

Solar Power

Samsung SDI begins work on second battery factory in Malaysia

Charged

AUGUST 24, 2022

The company started off with producing braun tubes in its early years before shifting to batteries in 2012.”. SDIEM is “the first overseas business entity of Samsung SDI,” according to Samsung SDI. Source: Samsung SDI.

Batteries

Batteries Construction Energy Energy

Monocultures or mixed species? Surprising new research shows how different forests cope with drought

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Using a long-term experimental forest in Ardross, near Inverness in Scotland, they measured the impact of a spring drought in 2012 on monocultures of two species – Sitka spruce and Scots pine – compared to mixtures of the same two species growing together in different proportions.

Resilience

Resilience Climate change Soil Carbon

Largest agrivoltaic research project in U.S. advances renewable energy while empowering local farmers

Solar Power World

JUNE 10, 2021

The global installed capacity of agrivoltaics, or the co-development of the same area of land for both solar power and agriculture, has grown rapidly from about 5 MW in 2012 to approximately 2,900 MW in 2020. advances renewable energy while empowering local farmers appeared first on Solar Power World.

Solar Power

Solar Power Energy Energy Agriculture

Comment: Water in the US – a decade of turbulence

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

What were the key issues when Isle Americas was founded in 2012? Managing capital costs and operational costs with declining revenues were ongoing stressors across the last decade, and conversations about the value of water and how adequately priced services were topics of discussion even as far back as 2012. Drinking water 2012 -2022.

Building Energy Monitoring

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring

Wind Energy Technologies Office - Bends, Twists, and Flat Edges Change the Game for Wind Energy

Global Renewable News

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2012, two wind turbine blade innovations made wind power a higher performing, more cost-effective, and reliable source of electricity: a blade that can twist while it bends and blade airfoils (the.

Wind power

Wind power Energy Energy Electricity

Dehaat secures $115 million Series D funding for continued expansion in India

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Gurgaon-based online marketplace Dehaat, launched in 2012, connects 650,000 Indian smallholder. ImpactAlpha, October 28 — More than half of India’s population are farmers. The post Dehaat secures $115 million Series D funding for continued expansion in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Orange is the New Green, for Greenhouses

Energy Central

MARCH 31, 2022

In Colorado, where I live, from 2012 to 2017, the total number of greenhouse farms increased by 47%. As climate change dries out the American West and much of the rest of the world, farmers are responding by growing more crops in greenhouses.

Climate change

Climate change Agriculture

Israel’s StoreDot secures $60 million for ‘extreme fast charging’ EV batteries

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2022

ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Tel Aviv-based StoreDot, launched in 2012, set out to prove its Li-ion battery technology can charge a vehicle in. The post Israel’s StoreDot secures $60 million for ‘extreme fast charging’ EV batteries appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Batteries

Batteries Technology Investment Energy

Op-ed: Let’s close the loop on tariffs to create a sustainable clean energy economy that benefits all

Solar Power World

JUNE 22, 2022

In 2012, the Obama administration first imposed tariffs on certain imported cells and modules in an attempt to rescue the declining solar manufacturing industry. In 2018,… The post Op-ed: Let’s close the loop on tariffs to create a sustainable clean energy economy that benefits all appeared first on Solar Power World.

Sustainability

Sustainability Solar Power Energy Energy

Panasonic Energy and Mazda to discuss EV battery partnership

Charged

JULY 11, 2023

Previously, Mazda had installed Panasonic batteries in its Demio EV , which the company had leased in Japan since 2012.

Batteries

Batteries Energy Energy North America

Recent Deals – 14 December

CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From hydraulic-based chemicals for plant-breeding, to lithium-ion vs. Zinc battery solutions and intelligent mobility Agriculture & Food Sound Agriculture (2012), a provider of.

Agriculture

Agriculture Lithium Batteries Logistics

Republican Resistance in the Face of Polls that Show Americans Support Climate Action

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The US is More Accepting of Climate Change (2012) Extreme Weather is Causing More Americans to Accept Climate Change and Call for Government Action (2012) The Stark Partisan Divide on Global Warming (2012) Earth Day Poll Shows the Environment is Important (2012) US Citizens Want Government Action on the Environment (2012) US Environmental Attitudes (..)

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Earth Day

Progress made but too many still falling short, says EA on environmental performance of water and sewerage firms

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. Whilst there were improvements in 2020, no single company achieved all the expectations for the period 2015 to 2020.

Pollution

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Investment

More US wind power capacity was installed in 2020 than in any other year

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

GW added in 2012. production tax credit (PTC) at the end of 2020 primarily drove investments in wind turbine capacity that year, just as previous tax credit reductions led to significant wind capacity additions in 2012 and 2019. gigawatts (GW) and surpassing the previous record of 13.2 Source: U.S.

Wind power

Wind power Electricity Energy Energy

Maps enhance flood risk modelling

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK.

Climate change

Climate change Global warming

Hub Ventures Announces Dates for Spring 2012 Cohort

Better Ventures

JANUARY 17, 2012

Entrepreneurs with World-Changing Ideas Encouraged to Apply SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 17, 2012 – Hub Ventures (www.hub-ventures.com), a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world, announced that it is taking applications for its upcoming Spring 2012 cohort.

Startups

Startups Sustainability Technology Innovation

India’s LEAD School secures $30 million to scale edtech platform

Impact Alpha

APRIL 27, 2021

ImpactAlpha, April 27 — Mumbai-based LEAD School launched in 2012 to provide management services to schools serving low-income students. Its mobile app, which. The post India’s LEAD School secures $30 million to scale edtech platform appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Education

Joe Biden’s new monument near the Grand Canyon stops some — but not all — uranium mining

The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2023

There’s been a ban on uranium mining in the area since 2012 , but that was set to expire in 2032. Despite the new protections, the designation of a national monument won’t infringe on existing mining claims that predated the 2012 ban. With a national monument in place, that temporary ban becomes permanent.

Medicine

Medicine Energy Energy Pollution

SOCAP 2012: Entrepreneurship Gone Global

Better Ventures

OCTOBER 5, 2012

What was also strikingly evident at SOCAP 2012 is exactly how global social entrepreneurship has become! This year at SOCAP was especially exciting since it gave a special voice to all the intrepid entrepreneurs out there, busy changing the world one idea at a time.

Incubators

Incubators Incubators Startups Innovation

Firm secures three-year stack emissions contract extension with SEPA

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This work is covered by regulations including the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Pollution and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012, and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 2011.

Pollution

Pollution Waste Waste Sustainability

Trump's COVID Denial Mirrors Romney’s Climate Denial in 2012, Hurting Election Bid

Premature Nuclear Reactor Retirements Could Effect Nuclear Waste Disposal

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Seed preservation is vital for a sustainable food system

Draught-proofing for chimneys picks up Queen’s Award

Study: $36bn invested in carbon credit projects between 2012 and 2022

Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012

Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

Report details role of digital tracking in construction waste management

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents encouraged to recycle their metal packaging

Who are net-zero leaders and laggards in food?

Right to repair is on the way

Accelerate at Circularity 20: Fast-Pitch Competition

International Renewable Energy Agency - Renewables Jobs Nearly Doubled in Past Decade, Soared to 13.7 Million in 2022 Employment expands despite crises and challenges and growing use of industrial policies can create more localised supply chains, a new report finds.

Monarch Private Capital Backs 300+ MW of Solar Energy Installations

Microsoft's Elizabeth Willmott on the company's carbon neutrality commitment

Firm receives InnovateUK funding to enhance vessel performance monitoring technology

Public urged to keep watch for tree pest oak processionary moth

Solar Service Provider EnergyAid Initiates U.S. Expansion

First Solar Settles Shareholder Suit for $350M

Ascent Solar Product Trials Reach 15.2 Percent Cell Production Efficiency

Government’s renewables targets at risk as auction sees no bids for offshore wind??????

Vermont contractor brings needed savings to dairy farmers with community solar

Samsung SDI begins work on second battery factory in Malaysia

Monocultures or mixed species? Surprising new research shows how different forests cope with drought

Largest agrivoltaic research project in U.S. advances renewable energy while empowering local farmers

Comment: Water in the US – a decade of turbulence

Wind Energy Technologies Office - Bends, Twists, and Flat Edges Change the Game for Wind Energy

Dehaat secures $115 million Series D funding for continued expansion in India

Orange is the New Green, for Greenhouses

Israel’s StoreDot secures $60 million for ‘extreme fast charging’ EV batteries

Op-ed: Let’s close the loop on tariffs to create a sustainable clean energy economy that benefits all

Panasonic Energy and Mazda to discuss EV battery partnership

Recent Deals – 14 December

Republican Resistance in the Face of Polls that Show Americans Support Climate Action

Progress made but too many still falling short, says EA on environmental performance of water and sewerage firms

More US wind power capacity was installed in 2020 than in any other year

Maps enhance flood risk modelling

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Hub Ventures Announces Dates for Spring 2012 Cohort

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Joe Biden’s new monument near the Grand Canyon stops some — but not all — uranium mining

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