Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment. Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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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. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. billion years of evolution.

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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 authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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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 authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs. “We

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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. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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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. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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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. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Grist

JULY 29, 2020

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives on Wednesday shows the program has been a boon to public health, too. While RGGI is designed to reduce CO2 emissions, it inevitably leads to reductions in other pollutants from power plants, like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. billion years of evolution.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” An unnamed White House official told Bloomberg Law that the approach in the CEQ report remains open to modifications. “It

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. Grainfill Creative.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses. It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And going further back than that, he was among the Tory rebels who pushed for the government to stop backing onshore wind in 2012. An undercover investigation by Greenpeace in 2012 caught him boasting that he was working to write opposition to wind energy “into the DNA of the Tory Party” and campaign against the UK’s climate goals.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law. On the other side are activists for environmental justice, the movement to reverse the historical trend of dumping pollution on poor people and Black and Hispanic communities.

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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. Still, Serna held out hope that the news that night might be positive — that maybe, just maybe, the pollution wasn’t as bad as the odors let on.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. One farm in the south-central region of the state grows oysters and mussels alongside kelp.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With bipartisan energy compromise now law, advocates and some Democrats look to the budget to help protect the state’s poorest ratepayers. Many of the same communities live near power plants, compressor stations, and other fossil fuel infrastructure, exposing them to health-threatening pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers issues permits for oil and gas pipelines nationwide violates some of the country’s cornerstone environmental laws. Five environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in a Montana federal court alleging that the way that the U.S. From Obama-era Keystone XL to Trump Era. That version went into effect in March. “We

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A series of bills professing to protect rural residents from industrial wind claim to bring transparency, limit abuse and enact safety measures to protect against the supposed health hazards of turbines. They cited anecdotes and disputed research showing no evidence of significant health harms from wind turbines.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

ACEA's first priority is to protect the health and jobs of the almost 14 million Europeans who work directly or indirectly in the auto industry, which has "essentially come to a halt", the spokesperson added. This will help keep jobs in Europe, curb pollution and boost the competitiveness of our car industry.".

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2020

Asked to clarify his claim that a Joe Biden presidency would usher in an invasion of the suburbs by dark-skinned people, Trump noted that roughly a third of suburban residents are already “minorities” who want to “destroy suburbia” by changing zoning laws to build low-income housing. Obama’s use of “minorities” was noteworthy for its irony.

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