DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought. But it also reflects a deeper evolution in the politics of climate change and in the attitude of activists, social scientists, media professionals, and lawyers. In the past six years alone, more than 1,000 cases have hit courts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Iceland's position as one of the world's leading clean tech hubs has been driven by a combination of political choices, supportive policies, and the geological accident that has blessed it with some of the world's most accessible geothermal resources.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.” and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It stresses the government's climate leadership is undermined by its poor export finance record, highlighting that between 2013/2014 and 2019/2020 UKEF has provided £6bn in finance to oil and gas projects, compared to just £500m for the clean energy sector.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 27, 2021

According to a survey last year , 80% of Asian Americans consider the environment to be a very or extremely important political issue; 77% support stronger federal legislation to address the climate crisis. average of 41%. So why is it that we don’t see AAPIs represented in the environmental movement? In the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. This follows her remark in the January 2017 post that: “it’s curious that the focus has been on CO2 and not on particulate pollution which has far more immediate negative effects on health and the environment”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2010, Blanchard graduated to political battles with BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a spill that sent 4.9 Fertilizer is a major pollutant. The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is a massive, oxygen-deprived swath of water concentrated off the coast of Louisiana and Texas, fed by polluted freshwater from states along the Mississippi River.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

It is also active in political lobbying, spending a total of $17.5 Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Earlier this year, Tice claimed “there is no climate crisis”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Yves Chouinard, the company's charismatic founder, crusaded for years for the removal of derelict dams to help protect river ecosystems in the US, even producing an award-winning documentary on the topic in 2014. But it takes partnership, it takes creating a vision and it takes consistency of just showing up and doing the work."

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico. million to the party since 2014.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

One group will continue to push for a dilution of climate policies and a revival of fracking, as they seek to erroneously blame the net zero strategy for the cost-of-living crisis. BusinessGreen takes a look at the candidates track records, policy plans, and teams to try and ascertain who might be best for the UK's environmental efforts.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 21, 2021

Whether it’s heat waves , air pollution from wildfires, or an expanding territory for disease carriers, the consequences of climate change are dire. The Minneapolis Green Cost Share program helped dry cleaners eliminate “perc” (Perchloroethylene), a cancer-causing pollutant, from their operations.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

Exxon lobbyists have been caught out laying bare how they work to delay climate action, but why do so many advocates of bolder climate policies refuse to take a tougher line against their opponents? Watch and share. pic.twitter.com/yICeai1Sop. — Unearthed (@UE) June 30, 2021.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. London (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2014.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

It is also a source of 20% of industrial water pollution from textile dyeing and treatment. . Developing countries serve as an excellent host for toxic, fast fashion factories due to cheap labor, tax breaks, and lenient pollution, operation, and labor regulations. . Societal Impact. What is Sustainable Fashion?

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Grist

MAY 31, 2020

Over the past decade, the Nunatsiavut government has redirected outside researchers’ efforts toward Inuit priorities, including mental health, marine pollution in wild foods, housing shortages, and, of course, sea ice. Not helping matters is a history of often brutal Canadian colonial policies. SmartICE isn’t alone.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Keir Starmer has slammed the government's "decade of broken promises on green jobs and climate action", as he last night announced a clutch of new climate policy commitments in an attempt to reboot Labour's 'Green New Deal' agenda and seize the political narrative in the final weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first carbon-focused MAC curves date to the early 1990s, while similar curves for energy savings and other air pollutants appeared in the early 1980s ( Kesicki and Ekins ). If viewed as a useful springboard for more rigorous consideration of the various mitigation measures, MAC curves are an important policy tool.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

MAG “ fiercely opposes ” next month’s expansion of London’s flagship anti-pollution measure, the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ), and claims to have played a “key” role in April’s anti-ULEZ demonstrations held in central London. Parliamentary Influence MAG appears to have growing political influence.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Chengdu’s Tianfu New Area was approved in 2014 to serve as a model for sustainable urban development and a hub for strategic new industries. “The climate threat doesn’t respect borders and it doesn’t pause for politics,” Brown said at the launch of the partnership on September 23. Despite the ongoing U.S.-China

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. We’re paying to clean up their pollution.”. Article continues below. More in this series. And that’s what’s happened.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

The announcement of Pritchard’s new consultancy roles follows the revelation that the Conservatives received £600,000 in the final quarter of 2022 from individuals and firms linked to high-pollution industries. There do not appear to be any MPs from other political parties who are currently working for fossil fuel-linked firms.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

Craig Mackinlay runs an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) with Howard Cox , a regular Sun columnist and vocal critic of green transport policies, whose haulage industry-funded FairFuelUK campaign boasts of having kept fuel duty frozen for the past 12 years. Political Ties. Baker is a GWPF trustee and Lord Lilley is a former trustee.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The joint-largest donation to the Conservatives during this period was made by Graham Edwards, a board member at the influential Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. In 1997, the federal government formed a hypoxia task force in an effort to stem the flow of fertilizer pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Back in 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”. There are question marks over whether he stands to gain financially from any of these policies. Jacob Rees-Mogg – Business and Energy Secretary.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the same year that Last Generation was blocking roads in Germany, farmers used the exact same tactic , blocking roads with their tractors to protest a renewable energy policy that they don’t feel provides enough incentives for biogas. Not a single farmer was punched in the face or dragged off the road by their hair.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Over the following two and a half decades, scientists continued to collect data on climate change at the same time that governments worldwide argued over the economic and political implications of taking action to counter its effects.

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