Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Plug-In Van and Truck Grants have supported the purchase of more than 26,000 electric vehicles (EVs) since the programme launched in 2012, offering up to £5,000 off the cost of a large electric van and £16,000 off the initial cost of a small truck. tonnes to 4.25 tonnes, with vans weighing up to 4.25

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. In fact, in a 2015 survey completed by 365 economists, 81% said that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to cut pollution. Cutting diesel consumption by 3.3% by 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, we suggest a new ratio for more accurately calculating fracked gas’s full impacts so that the fossil fuel industry can’t use RSG standards as a thin green veil for continuing its polluting practices. million gallons of water in 2012 to 21 million gallons in 2021. What Is RSG? Credit: WCN 24/7 , CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

Their research reveals that by 2035, we could be generating over 100 times the amount of electricity that we need to meet global demand, purely from wind and solar. Clean renewables will fight catastrophic climate change and free the planet from deadly pollution.”. Looking forwards, looking bac k.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since its 2012 founding as CalCom Solar, the Fresno, Calif.-based megawatts of solar PV through CalCom, has also added two 520-kilowatt batteries at its central cooling facility, to reduce demand charges, shift energy to different TOU periods, and provide backup power to critical loads. of California, which has installed about 5.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I LNG projects since 2012, the report found. LNG exporter, is planning “significant expansion” of the facility to meet rising demand. German banks lent 2.17 billion euros to U.S. billion euros it has loaned to U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10. Carbon Emissions and Energy Demand. of the world’s electricity demand which is currently mostly sourced from harmful fossil fuels. Report on progress routinely.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Simultaneously, there are unprecedented restrictions on civil society access to the talks, which only exacerbate the gross imbalance of power between people and polluters, and threaten to undermine the legitimacy of COP26 outcomes.”. Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10. Carbon Emissions and Energy Demand. of the world’s electricity demand which is currently mostly sourced from harmful fossil fuels. Report on progress routinely.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Climate change 78

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In 2012, there were only 24 EfW plants in England. Pollutants and plastic. In EfW plants, the main pollutants relevant to hydrated lime are the acidic pollutants: hydrogen chloride (HCl), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and hydrogen fluoride (HFl). Incineration growth. Today, we have almost double that number.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Efforts to manage emissions demand that we see major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. Demand for steel is declining or stagnating in key markets, including the United States and Japan.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. .” David Levy, Louisiana Oilfield Site Restoration Commissioner. A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. After Yum entered Ukraine in 2012, MHP began supplying the nation’s KFCs through a chicken processing plant near Kyiv. The resolution process is ongoing. MHP has denied wrongdoing.)

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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. Meeting the demands of ESG criteria means disclosing the impact your business has on the environment. Obtain third-party certification for ESG compliance.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Further, the United Nations former secretary-general Ban Ki-moon endorsed the concept of planetary boundaries on 16 March 2012.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is a testament and recognition of the decades-long commitment of Greenpeace activists to demand climate protection and stay below the 1.5C The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. Some segments of the media adopted a more frenzied tone, blurring facts in an effort to get clicks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The greenest shoots of the economic transition demanded by the climate emergency are found in the transformatory and locally-led initiatives we see up and down the UK," said Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The newly built Pu’er Tea and Coffee Industrial Development Centre (to the right) opposite the Pu’er Tea Quality Control Centre (Image: Karoline Kan/China Dialogue) However, a booming demand for low-cost coffee is putting pressure on coffee-growing areas already suffering serious deforestation from agricultural activities.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand. This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. The average U.S. Environmental Impact.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In 2012 China received nearly half of all the plastic waste that Americans sent abroad for recycling and about one-third of the European Union’s plastic waste exports. China demands quality control. Geyer et al., Science Advances, July 19, 2017, CC BY-NC. The world’s recycler. Will source nations step up? percent to 0.5

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AutoGrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

From demand response (DR) programs to distributed energy resource management systems (DERMs), microgrids to virtual power plants (VPPs), electric vehicle (EV) charging to large-scale assets, we saw a huge amount of progress, both within AutoGrid and across energy markets worldwide.

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Fossil fuels Demand Electric vehicle Electricity 92

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

He doesn’t think the agency should play a role in making a decision about it; he blames the Army Corps for what he describes as the mess at the mouth of the Mississippi River where there is rapid land loss and a growing deadzone where the river’s polluted river water enters the Gulf. she continued. . Cooper said.

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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. Indicator Maps. Drax paid out $3.2

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

“These integrated solar and storage plants will allow SRP to meet its summer peak demand, reduce carbon emissions, and provide clean energy to our customers while optimizing energy output using state-of-the-art battery technology,” Hummel said in a statement. The Mesquite plant purchase was made in 2012.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. Also, the demands for medium- and heavy-duty battery packs are much more complex. As the new hire, I got to ask them a question—this was 2012.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2022

AQMesh pods incorporate measurement of a broad range of air pollutant gases in a single device. To highlight the group’s experience, ongoing forward-thinking and its commitment to pushing the capabilities of small sensor systems, here the firm lists the top 10 things AQMesh developed first and refined since it commercially launched in 2012.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. “We

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand. This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. The average U.S. Environmental Impact.

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Fashion Waste Waste Retail 78

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Those least able to mitigate climate pollutants and adapt to the changing climate are those who will suffesSaasr the most. Indeed, since at least Superstorm Sandy in 2012 we’ve seen extreme weather events destroy local infrastructure and strain local first responders. Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. xiv] Fine-particulate air pollution costs Canada overall about $53.5 KEY FACTS. [xi]

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