DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

As taxpayer-funded entities, IFC and EBRD should require that the recipients of its low-cost financing are avoiding negative environmental and social impacts — not worsening them,” Kelly McNamara, a Friends of the Earth US policy analyst, said. “In In West and Southern Africa, the rate was substantially higher. “As

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. In our ESG infographic you can see that environmental criteria address a business’s impact on our natural world. Obtain third-party certification for ESG compliance.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. Environmental Pollution The number of industrial wood pellet mills has risen rapidly in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. xiv] Fine-particulate air pollution costs Canada overall about $53.5

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

After death, we don’t want our corporeal form to leave a damaging legacy – but, many current practices surrounding both burial and cremation mean people often do leave a negative legacy of environmental pollution behind them for future generations. Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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Ecotech

AUGUST 5, 2019

of all packaging waste produced from 1994 to 2012 ended up in landfills. Another bonus is that you will reduce your company’s carbon footprint , since the amount of carbon emitted during the production of the package is fewer than traditional means. Another study determined that 48.5% It Consists Of Biodegradable Materials.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft hit headlines at the start of year with a hugely ambitious plan to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 , backed by a pledge to - by mid-century - retroactively remove all carbon dioxide the company has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975, in an announcement that sent shockwaves across the corporate world.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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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). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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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%.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

Other factors included Tesla's lack of published details about its low-carbon strategy or business conduct codes. Thus, highly rated companies in some polluting or extractive sectors might rightfully be considered the best of the worst. So, how to balance such negatives with a company's positives?

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. Val Hoyle, 2012. She’s running on a climate platform with three overarching themes: rapid decarbonization, nature-based solutions that sequester carbon and restore forest and coastal ecosystems, and accountability for big polluters who have lied and misled the public about the climate crisis for decades.

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