Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators.

Energy Monitor 73

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 73

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. Seven of the 13 refineries also reported similarly high levels in 2019, the report notes.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There are good reasons why the two-for-one cinema ticket deal became synonymous with the mobile network, ran for over a decade, and its demise in 2015 generated lamenting headlines. That innovation comes in the form of technology and data, but also extends to marketing and customer services.

Building Energy Monitoring 46

Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 46

Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

Pollution 87

Pollution Health Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 87

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Metal recycling has created vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials since metal usage began. While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Recycling Recycling 130

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 97

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations. For most industries, a better option is to reduce the carbon intensity of operations with carbon reduction technologies and strategies.

Carbon 234

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Plastics Recycling 234

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

NOx gases are mostly produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in vehicles and engines, as well as industrial processes such as power generation and cement manufacture. NO2 is generated by industrial processes including cement manufacture. NOx measurement in product development.

Ozone 130

Ozone Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Health 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New research from campaign group Mums for Lungs appears to reveal a failure to tackle wood smoke pollution in the UK. Despite 18,693 complaints from members of the public (2015-2021), only seven councils have issued fines in the last six years, on average just over three every year. air pollution. [2]. air pollution.

Pollution 264

Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Health Logging 264

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Even the finest particles of pollution influence the process of cloud formation and the rainfall regime, it seems. These nanoparticles of pollution [smaller than 10 nanometers] used to be overlooked in atmospheric calculations and models. We therefore compared the pollution line with nearby areas that lie outside the plume.

Pollution 204

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 204

Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Energy transition. Energy transition.

Building Energy Monitoring 40

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 40

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining. Image Credit: SkyTruth. Potentially Lethal Levels’.

Energy Monitor 96

Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

Building Energy Monitoring 88

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 88

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The WSPA’s description of its dinner says that “nothing is off the table” — adding that “we want to hear from you and answer any questions you may have about the oil and gas industry’s role in the energy transition.” To get there, industries need to lead the way with innovative technologies and solutions.”

Waste 93

Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 93

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2015

All eyes are on Paris for the 2015 U.N. But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people , more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined , and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S. The energy sector, worth trillions of dollars, is the second-largest economic sector in the world, behind the military.

Climate change 40

Climate change Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 40

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Combining synthetic biology with materials innovation, a bioelectronic sensor demonstrates the possibilities of using specially engineered bacteria to provide real-time sensing of chemical pollutants. It’s literally a miniature electrical switch,” said Caroline Ajo-Franklin, also lead author. The pucklike bioelectronics sensor.

Energy Monitor 271

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Electricity 271

Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. But the LCREE survey provides a somewhat patchy snapshot of green jobs in the UK.

Energy Monitor 44

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 44

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s. The fossil fuel industry was first warned about climate change back in 1959 by famed physicist Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It comes amidst a growing public campaign in protest at the practice of wastewater plants releasing sewage into waterways in the wake of heavy rains, which saw the government accused of failing to adequately tackle dangerous levels of pollution. If we find there has been, we will use all of our powers to hold companies to account.".

Energy Monitor 40

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Law Government 40

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

Sustainability 520

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste. Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel.

Climate change 50

Climate change Government Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 50

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we explain how GBB certification serves as a stepping stone, to prepare a company for ISO 14001 until the entity builds the resources to make this step. ISO 14001 was revised in 2015 to give new standards focused on leadership and applicability.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Organic Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Castillo clarified that the “barbecue” was a ground flare at the $10 billion manufacturing complex — a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) known as Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV). The industry claims ground flares can be cleaner than tower flares. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

Plastics 98

Plastics Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution 98

Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Marazziti and colleagues recently published a review paper on the simultaneous negative psychological impacts of climate change, air pollution, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Climate change 59

Climate change Health Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 59

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a green realtor® passionate about the planet’s future and our own, you can play an important role in delivering the message of sustainability to homeowners and support a greener, healthier real estate industry. Energy efficiency. Green, non-toxic building materials. Home renewable energy systems. Resource conservation.

Home Energy Monitoring 167

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 167

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

Pollution 98

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Methane Home Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Biomass power generation would have seemed impossible to the engineers who began building Drax Power Station in 1967. But the unique nature of Drax presents a more powerful opportunity for its future: negative emissions. The energy sector, however was beginning to change.

Building Energy Monitoring 82

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 82

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

"After the driest May on record, older people and other vulnerable populations may be at risk from the often deadly heat waves we increasingly see each summer, often exacerbated by climate change," said Dr Nick Watts, executive director of the Lancet Countdown, which monitors the links between climate change and public health.

Home Energy Monitoring 67

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Health Climate change 67

Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Science-Based Targets Initiative, launched in 2015 to help companies set credible emissions reduction targets in line with climate science, has now accredited more than 1,000 companies around the world as having targets in line with a 1.5C warming scenario, the stretch goal of the Paris Agreement. per cent a year, she said.

Carbon-neutral 62

Carbon-neutral Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 62

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. They think that building a levee is going to protect them from rising seawater. They can also enter directly through cracks in building foundations.

Energy Monitor 134

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 134

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Whilst there were improvements in 2020, no single company achieved all the expectations for the period 2015 to 2020. These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. million for separate pollution incidents.

Pollution 264

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Investment 264

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Why push for zero-emission vessels, if the marine industry is only a small part of the total problem? That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. The marine industry contributes significantly to these numbers.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The consequences of penalties and fines outweigh the costs of hiring a sustainability communications firm or simply building in other safeguards to prevent greenwashing, Shelton added. Made with renewable energy. If your factory runs on 40 per cent wind power, say so specifically, the agency advises. What does that even mean?

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

Building Energy Monitoring 121

Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 121