DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. Legatum has sunk tens of millions into GB News since its launch in June 2021, having invested at least £50 million in two funding rounds.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

After all, climate action is more than just cutting pollution, it’s about building a strong economic future for Canadians. The analysis found that “targeted government action” can improve Canada’s chances of success by mobilizing private investment and smoothing workforce transition. RESOURCES.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

In 2012, we were insulating more homes a year than ever before. But from insulating our homes to building massive windfarms to retraining high-carbon workers in the industries of the future, getting off fossil fuels is going to take serious investment. It was our addiction to fossil fuels that got us into this position.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It helps China in its efforts to combat air pollution and curb its carbon footprint, aligning with global climate goals. The reduction in the use of fossil fuels also decreases the need for coal-fired power plants, which have been a major source of pollution and carbon emissions in China.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Start-ups like Koloma, infused with a $91 million investment from entities like Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures , are betting big on this nascent energy promise. Natural hydrogen or gold hydrogen, can be renewable, non-polluting and often offers lower costs than its industrial counterpart.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

The city of Liverpool has cut its carbon emissions by 18 per cent since 2012, and is on course to hit a 35 per cent reduction by the end of this year. It has also won funding to plant 750 trees in the city over the next two years, and is considering the introduction of a clean air zone, where the most polluting vehicles will be charged.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined. The think tank has significant access to ministers, having held more than a hundred meetings with the government since 2012.

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GreenBiz

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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, introduced in early 2009, increased GDP 2% to 3% above what it would have been and supported over 6 million job-years (a full-time job for one year) from 2009 to 2012. Investment in and viability of key clean technologies. and, in 2019, employed 350,000 Americans. up from 9% in 2005.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The study findings show that, over the course of 10 climate-sensitive events from the year 2012, Americans endured more than $10 billion in healthcare costs. Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.”

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. Carbon Management 3 , 393–410 (2012). WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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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. In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry.

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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. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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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). The strategy draws attention to Heat Networks Investment Project from.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. 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.

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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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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. These instances each reflect the urgency of investing in renewable energy technologies. Investing in renewable energy technologies. SDG 7 Targets.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012). According to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), since the Paris Agreement, global banks have invested 1.9 According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. trillion U.S.

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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%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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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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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. These instances each reflect the urgency of investing in renewable energy technologies. Investing in renewable energy technologies. SDG 7 Targets.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 17, 2020

trillion dollars of clean energy investment per year through 2035 to limit warming to 1.5 As Kim, our Director of Water Innovation, says in our Impact Report, “We prioritize technologies that take a decentralized approach, help municipalities and utilities reduce pollution, and advance solutions to provide clean water for all.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years. ESG investment growth is expected to continue into 2022 and beyond. As such, socially responsible investing has piqued the interest of these stakeholder groups, and this trend continues to grow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition, the ECO energy efficiency programme should be replaced with a revised version of the Warm Zones scheme, the APPG argued, proposing that whole-area - rather than individual household - approaches to energy conservation should be adopted so as to reduce costs and maximise return on investment for taxpayers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

. “These racketeering cases should be viewed as a new legal front against the oil and gas industry,” Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which advocates for climate accountability from polluters, said by email. Credit: U.S. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0 More than two dozen communities across the U.S.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

I began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California. The state had just begun implementation of the cap & trade program, and I was enamored with this new post–AB 32 & SB 535 world that charged polluters and used a fund to bring resources back into communities most impacted by pollution.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 18, 2020

Perhaps most importantly clean energy does not contribute to pollution and death ( millions die each year because of polluted air ). All the way back in 2012 fossil fuels were the most hated industry in the U.S. Every dollar invested in climate resilience offers a tenfold return.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

Air pollution has grave consequences — the World Health Organization estimates it kills 7 million people a year. Indeed, recent research suggests closer to 9 million people died from exposure to air pollution caused by burning fossil fuel each year from 2012 to 2018. Mon, 04/19/2021 - 01:15.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 3, 2024

Urban land is typically heavily polluted from vehicle outputs, road runoff, artificial light, and human-made noise. Man tends an organopónico – a government-subsidized system of urban and peri-urban farming – in a suburb of Havana, Cuba, 2012. How can we invest in urban and peri-urban agriculture?

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

To help the recovery, an economic stimulus which embeds green criteria will be central to this solution, to simultaneously get the country back on track and direct investment towards the low carbon industries we will need in future. It is estimated that, in 2012, poor air quality had a total productivity cost of up to £2.7bn.

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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. You may see us moving to that,” Courreges said about the state possibly investing in methane detectors. “I A Trip to Freshwater City.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

As a result, all air emissions, including traditional pollutants and CO2, are eliminated and pipeline-quality CO2 is produced so that it can be captured and stored offshore, the companies said. The project could be up and running as early as 2025.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Today at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government committed to double the funding target of the Clean Oceans Initiative to €4bn by 2025. Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

We have heard from you, I have heard from you, that there are opportunities to look at environmental regulation around supply chains and channel finance to invest in nature. In the UK the proportion of energy generated from coal has fallen from 40 per cent in 2012 to five per cent in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

James Murray, Editor at Business Green told DeSmog: “Policymakers and grid operators are well aware of how the grid will have to evolve and the investments that will be required to ensure energy security – and they are making those changes.”

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