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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?

Envirotec Magazine

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial.

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Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Between 2014 and 2018, transportation emissions rose by 3%, the report said. Activists met the news with incredulity. metric tons. rise in emissions from natural gas.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

“Even if these projects were having the carbon benefits that they claim to, which is questionable, they’re still having negative impacts on the local community,” said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist at Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

DeSmogBlog

Each voluntary program sets its own standards, decides how opaque or transparent its data will be, and how it will treat companies that perform worse than their peers or wells where environmental regulators discover spills, violations, or other law-breaking. ESG’s influence isn’t just limited to investors or Wall Street. Credit: 350.org

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

DeSmogBlog

Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” This is our homeland, and we want to live here for generations going forward,” says Jackson. “So

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.