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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

In March 2020, for example, China’s State Council announced four national requirements for VOC content in adhesives, coatings, inks and cleaning agents widely used in the electronics and electrical industry; the stringency and implementation of these mandates may have a significant impact on production and business risk moving forward.

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5 States Blazing the Trail for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources

GreenTechMedia

Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.

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Is carbon offsetting enough?

Envirotec Magazine

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. A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials.

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How New Building Rules Can Revitalize Residential Solar in England

GreenTechMedia

New homes will be expected to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week , which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.” “The whole smart energy, electric vehicle, electric mobility, all of that, or have moved on another, another five years.”

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

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. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Image Credit: SkyTruth.

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Flat-lining: Policy review highlights England's mixed progress on waste reduction

Business Green

Furthermore, it says, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made "significant improvements" when it comes to measuring and monitoring waste, in particular within the commercial and industrial sector. WRAP now works with companies on an individual project basis to try and tackle the electrical waste mountain.

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Revealed: UK supermarkets linked to beef suppliers driving illegal Amazon deforestation

Business Green

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), with growing demand for beef in particular swallowing up land - sometimes illegally - for grazing and cultivating soy for cattle feed, and often at the expense of tropical forest. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5