Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. But to my mind, this is not an argument for not increasing taxes on polluting activity. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

China China has 124 gW this year and has grown by 10 gW since 2014 and by 44 gW since 2013. Continuous growth is helping, in part, to alleviate its pollution problems, although it will need to invest more money in this type of source to be able to truly reduce them.

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Climate-KIC

DECEMBER 10, 2017

With its innovation, Graviky Labs turns air pollution into ink—facilitating artistic expression while making an important statement about the environment. Anirudh Sharma was raised in Mumbai, India—a city with high levels of air pollution, where many suffer from lung disease and cancer.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Defeat devices consist of hardware and/or software that bypass pollution sensors, allowing vehicles to pass emissions inspections while still emitting high levels of smog-causing pollutants such as nitrogen oxide.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 7, 2021

One welcome side effect has been reduced light pollution. star count organized by a charity called CPRE found that light pollution continues to drop, with a 10% reduction since last year. If a person could only see 10 or fewer stars , that was considered severe light pollution. skies are the darkest they’ve been since 2013.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. 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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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. Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2020

Here’s the problem: we don’t have the extensive air quality information we need to reduce pollution. Built by two atmospheric chemists, QuantAQ’s air quality sensors are smaller than a microwave, cost a fraction of traditional pollution measurements, offer continuous rather than hourly data, and are simple to install and operate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

It might help avoid interiors becoming too dry, reducing indoor air pollution, attractive in countries like India. In 2013, the Ithaka Institute in Switzerland produced the first structure using this material, which is currently undergoing testing. Biochar is a porous material made from the pyrolysis of wood and other plant material.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2020

Here’s the problem: we don’t have the extensive air quality information we need to reduce pollution. Built by two atmospheric chemists, QuantAQ’s air quality sensors are smaller than a microwave, cost a fraction of traditional pollution measurements, offer continuous rather than hourly data, and are simple to install and operate.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. Then EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks to the National Press Club on climate change and power plants in September 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

billion) — counts major polluters among its clients, and has defended two companies sued over allegedly polluting local communities. . He added that “it is unfortunate that a firm with a reputation for helping polluters will be given access to the heart of negotiations to advise COP26”. History of Polluting Clients.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Recent research published in Global Environmental Change has revealed that only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. According to the study, regular “super emitters” are polluting the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly. In 2018, airlines produced a billion tons of CO2.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study. It can corrode drinking water pipes , exacerbating lead pollution in water supplies, as it did in Flint, Michigan. Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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The City Fix

JULY 13, 2023

Since 2013, WRI India’s annual flagship event, Connect Karo, has served as a platform for facilitating dialogue between policymakers, experts. Join us July 17-18 for Connect Karo 2023 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Register now and review the agenda.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2024

However, many of these plants have also repeatedly exceeded legal limits on the air pollution they release into surrounding communities, disproportionately affecting people of color. billion in public subsidies since 2013 and has been fined $2,500 in Clean Air Act penalties between 2020 and 2023. since 2012, including Indorama.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. A 2013 study found that adding a row of trees between a roadway and nearby houses reduced pollution levels in the houses by 50 percent.)

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Londoners are calling for their next Mayor to tackle air pollution as a priority, a new pan-European survey has revealed. Over two thirds (71 percent) of respondents across the 15 cities said they wanted their mayors to do more to protect them from air pollution.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

per cent between 2013 and 2018, while their distribution contracted by 9.3 The report also highlights a lack of progress on reducing waste levels, highlighting that the number of fly-tipping incidents in England has risen by 36 per cent between 2013 and 2018, with levels of residual waste on the rise as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The letter argued that the contract was entered into under the Energy Act 2013 for the project to be treated as generating a form of low carbon energy. The science behind biomass is there for everyone to see – it worsens climate change and has an expensive and polluting supply chain.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We According to a 2018 Dogwood Alliance report, since 1953, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris.

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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., But as is the case with renewable energy credits, there are worries that carbon credits could give businesses the same license-to-pollute mentality.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Power plants, toxic waste dumps, and other air and water polluting industries are more often located in poor neighborhoods where there is a higher concentration of people of color. Sadly, the location of these types of polluting industries has not changed over the years. Of those who did leave, many could not afford to return.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Still, until this week’s study, there have been precious few alternative means of determining the average global ocean temperature before widespread industrialization and rampant carbon pollution. Ocean temperatures gleaned from the sclerosponges used for the new study could be more reliable than documentary records for a number of reasons.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

The waste from maintenance and servicing activities contributes to the majority of pollutants found in effluents at rail depots, including diesel fuel oil, engine lubricant oil, hydrostatic and gearbox oils and detergent-based cleaners. Are there any legal implications surrounding the management of effluent?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fleet operators can now opt for designs with fuel efficiency features such as elongated cab designs and rear flaps that should help cut carbon emissions and air pollution.

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