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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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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. Make the state carbon neutral by 2045 , per House Bill 2182 , signed into law in June, 2018. California’s recycling rate is down from a high of 50% in 2014 to 44% in 2016. California goals.

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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.

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Luminalt’s Jeanine Cotter: How Solar Loses Without a Diverse Workforce

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

She believes that solar customers need a diverse array of solar installers — both large and small — to choose from in order to keep the industry healthy, which might help explain why Luminalt has continued to see a rise in revenues. Luminalt has 23 employees. Cotter doesn’t let the sheer size of companies like SolarCity shake her.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Bitcoin has had the same old array of tailwinds in its sails throughout its latest bull run. authorities on 1 July 2014. And the U.S.