Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

In January 1995, Schladming became a fixed date in the World Cup calendar, and in 2013, with the increased popularity of the venue and a peak in the number of visitors, the new wastewater treatment plant was built.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s a general truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, an idea clear to Lord Kelvin over 100 years ago¹ and enacted by health & safety professionals when they carry out risk assessments (or check the effectiveness of controls). However, the Code has a special legal status. References.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In 2013, American Forests called Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and New York; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; Seattle and Washington, D.C., That’s one reason investing in urban forestry isn’t as simple; nor does it have the same sustainability impacts. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. They can, if done right, tremendously advance environmental justice — they provide human health benefits, biodiversity, bird and pollinator habitat, slope stability and the list goes on.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 6, 2022

ImpactAlpha, January 6 — Accra-based mPharma, launched in 2013, has partnered with more than 155 hospitals, 850 pharmacies to deliver telehealth services and. The post Ghanaian pharmacy venture mPharma raises $35 million to expand drug access in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The experience of space and place refers to spatial features and characteristics of the natural environment that have advanced human health and wellbeing. Studies have proven that biophilic design can improve mental and physical health, environmental conditions and may be economical. Biophilic Design and Biophilic Urbanism.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. If we commit to doing so, the solutions will come, she said. Business community role. Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. The report calculates that the annualised health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol is up to £170 million every year. billion for PM2.5

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Their diagnostic platform can assess real-time health data, battery analytics and issues, and enable a secondary market for used batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The company values incorporate: • To put health and safety first at all times. • As well as its commitment to the environment, LCM champions improvements in health and safety standards. To have paramount regard for the environment. • To be innovative and to encourage staff to innovate safely. •

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6 million hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year. The TRIR, measuring the number of injuries per million hours worked, fell from 3.28 in 2021 to 2.82 in 2022 (down from 5.52 in 2021 to 1.03 in 2016).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Published on August 17 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , the study looked at almost 2,500 children in Pennsylvania, including 405 who have been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of blood cancer. They found that children living within two kilometers (roughly 1.2 Drilling rig in Lawrence County, PA.

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The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2021

More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. Now, she said, most cases are acquired locally, generally spreading among patients in health care settings. auris infections. auris was first spreading in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2006 and 2007, for example, millions of laptops and mobile phones were recalled due to safety fears relating to their Li-ion batteries, and in 2013, a Boeing 787 was grounded following electrical issues with the Li-ion battery in the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit. Famously, in 2016, around 2.5

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

Caribou walk in the foreground of a glacier on July 12, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. It happened again in the winters of 2013-2014 and in 2020-2021, when tens of thousands of reindeer died on Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. million caribou, which have been in rapid decline pretty much everywhere over the past three generations.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. Read his 2013 interview , when he "retired" from Applied Materials, in which he recounts his professional journey to that point.).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The three most commonly used decibel weightings are ‘A’, ‘C’ and ‘Z’ as defined in the sound level meter standards IEC 61672:2013 (BS EN 61672-1:2013). You may have noticed that some sound meters allow you to choose the frequency weighting you want to measure noise at. But which one do you choose?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2013, the bank loaned Country Bird Holdings $25 million to expand existing operations in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. The choices we make in regard to supplies, energy usage, and product movement are all measured against the impact to the environment and the long-term health of our planet.” – Tim McCann, Best Cleaners. 500 | 5000 America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. After the government promised to halt shale gas projects in the UK last year, however, support for fracking continues to dwindle, with 41 per cent stating their opposition, rising from 21 per cent in 2013.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to the most recent data (from 2013), the United States ranks third among the most consumed products. But persistent carnivores are already subject to several health problems (such as bad cholesterol or heart diseases) to risk eating contaminated meat. Eating meat is practically a national sport in America.

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EDF + Business

MAY 30, 2023

In 2014, FDA concluded BPA use in food was safe based on studies from 2009-2013, and until recently, FDA maintained this position [2] despite newer scientific studies. Based on 2014 data (the most recent exposure data available from FDA), U.S. BPA restrictions seem inevitable. Companies should address BPA in their products now.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These increases continue the overall trend since 2013 when 578,096 tonnes was collected, an overall increase of 24.8%. Hazardous waste comprised 0.2% (2,000 tonnes) of waste incinerated in 2021 and was solely composed of hazardous health care and biological wastes. Less than half as much waste sent to landfill as in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. The IPCC’s Fifth Climate Assessment, in 2013, focused on representative concentration pathways, or RCPs. Why is this report such a big deal? They ranged from RCP 2.6,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When it was launched in 2013, loft and cavity wall insulation rates collapsed by 92 per cent and 74 per cent respectively compared with 2012. The ECO delivered on average just 228,000 insulation measures a year between 2013 and 2021 - a drop of 83 per cent against the 1.3 million homes a year - a rate it managed pre-2013.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says. The biggest contributor to the issue in the U.S.? Dumping salt on the road for safer driving during winter weather. That salt helps make roads less icy, but it eventually runs off and contaminates streams and drinking water.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The guide compiles insights from National Lottery-funded community projects that have successfully reduced waste and cut carbon emissions, while improving community health and wellbeing and boosting local skills, training, and jobs.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges. Indeed, Eugene F.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

MPs have today urged the government to set tougher air pollution targets to help tackle widespread health inequalities and address the risk of a surge in car usage as Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased. Public Health England has classified air pollution as the largest environmental risk to UK public health.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2021

The temperatures were unbelievable,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle. Heat wasn’t top of mind for public health experts until relatively recently. A cooling station in Portland during a record-setting heat wave on June 28, 2021. Kathryn Elsesser / AFP via Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Last year a coroner ruled that air pollution exposure contributed to the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013 – the first time that air pollution was identified as a cause of death in the UK. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. Enviva got support from Northampton County Commissioners before opening the plant in 2013.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. The decision to regulate PFAS represents a huge win for public health. That win will come at a cost.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C by the 2100.

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