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. Pollution Persists Near Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

One of the scheme’s participants, Runcorn-based Arvia Technology has drawn on the input of a Master’s research project in its development of an award-winning system for removing chemical pollutants from water.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

This leads to globally significant environmental pollution, as oil contains hazardous compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that can have toxic or mutagenic effects on organisms. Oil leaks into the oceans are estimated at approximately 1500 million litres annually worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

The purpose of the funding was to support the organization with projects as jointly agreed to with the Province, such as community engagement with First Nations,” a B.C. The First Nations LNG Alliance was incorporated in December 2015, and public records show that the group received a “government transfer” of $270,000 the following year.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO2 and producing oxygen.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. Major Cost to Society Environmental Defence’s report further notes the oil and gas sectors’ cost to society — in terms of air pollution, climate change-related natural disasters, and/or extreme weather — is estimated at $52 billion for 2023 alone.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways, such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO 2 and producing oxygen.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris. But, given that there is no universal standard about how much offsetting is the "right" amount, it’s an open field for organizations to claim pretty much whatever they want. But that could change.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

The standards given in the ISO 14001 framework apply to any organization, large or small, across all industries – service and commercial sectors. ISO 14001 was revised in 2015 to give new standards focused on leadership and applicability. These new standards were titled: ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015. Pushing for Prevention.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

On Wednesday, June 28, the climate conference convened in London as part of London Climate Action Week , hosted by the UK-based global event organizer Climate Action in partnership with the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. None of these companies want government policy and carbon regulations.” “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2024

However, many of these plants have also repeatedly exceeded legal limits on the air pollution they release into surrounding communities, disproportionately affecting people of color. James Hiatt, a Lake Charles resident and founder of community-based organization For a Better Bayou, could see the bright light from his house.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.” However, the company works with many polluting industries, including the oil and gas industry, dealing with the waste produced by this sector and “optimizing asset performance.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Coal of course is the most polluting fossil fuel, one reason why it’s hard to ignore in a climate agreement.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The official Earth Day organization has been assigning yearly themes since at least 1980, and Planet vs. Plastics is hitting in the year when U.N. members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. But it struck me that Earth Day 2024 has a particularly timely theme: Planet vs. Plastics.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

Levy has been trying to figure out why the Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) spent more than $900,000 plugging and cleaning up an orphaned wastewater well site on ExxonMobil’s property in Vermilion Parish, about 40 miles southwest of Lafayette, before more polluting and dangerous orphaned well sites.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. It reveals that 82 percent of board members at these six banks currently hold or have held positions with climate-conflicted organizations. Fossil Fuel Links The boards of the six biggest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. In the U.S., In the U.S., The Juliana v.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, the University of Victoria professor spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C., organized by the Heartland Institute , a group that’s received over $1 million in contributions from Exxon, Koch Industries and the coal company Murray Energy. “Unfortunately, I am totally bogged down with teaching,” he wrote in an email.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The human rights organization characterized the company’s filings as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or SLAPP, to “intimidate and silence activists from speaking out about the possible environmental damage caused by the company’s exploitation of Kosovo’s natural resources.”. Latin America is a hotspot. Speaking Out.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The prominent sponsorship has sparked reactions from green campaigners, who say Edelman’s work with oil and gas majors is emblematic of how the public relations and advertising industries long helped big polluters sow public doubt and confusion about climate science. Who knows the promises and deals that will be made in these closed rooms?”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Fossil fuel companies know that “they still need sponsorships to keep that social legitimacy in the public’s mind,” writes artist, activist, and author Mel Evans in her 2015 book ArtWash: Big Oil and the Arts. Civil society and activist groups around the world are targeting fossil fuel sponsorships and the organizations that accept them.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A recent analysis from the World Benchmarking Alliance, a nonprofit organization that assesses how well corporations are working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, found a “dangerous lack of progress” from the oil and gas sector towards preventing global warming from exceeding 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Despite warnings from climate scientists, this buildout reflects movement away from the 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting greenhouse emissions to keep warming to below 2°C. He pointed out that fencing doesn’t stop the pollution. Sky lit up by the ground flare at the Exxon-SABIC GCGV plant on December 6, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. And even in more recent years, PR firms have helped create front groups and astroturf organizations on behalf of Big Oil. By comparison, it spent $500 million on advertising between 2009 and 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The open letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Clean Creatives campaign, comes just days before the annual UN climate talks (COP27) open in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Egypt, as this year’s host country for the summit, has hired Hill+Knowlton Strategies to help organize the event and lead on global communications.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ella Kissi-Debrah was born, raised, and died a tragically early death in south London, a hot spot for motor vehicle pollution. 1] Per the coroner’s report, “Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution.” [2] 2] Vehicle pollution contributing to an untimely death is all too common of a story.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Role of Ofwat, the Environment Agency, and Environment Secretary in tackling water pollution is to be investigated by the Office for Environmental Protection. Just last week, in front of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee, I questioned the effectiveness of the regulators policing pollution in our rivers," he said. "As

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Grist

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Most of the air we breathe comes from algae and other aquatic organisms that have been photosynthesizing sunlight into oxygen for a billion years. These poisonous organisms have been cropping up a lot lately. Atmospheric pollution from fossil fuel plants and cars can seed algal blooms, too. But not all algae are life-giving.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Article continues below. More in this series.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Image Credit: SkyTruth. Potentially Lethal Levels’.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In Jordan, the EBRD’s technical support and a 2015 loan worth up to $21 million helped poultry company Al Jazeera Agricultural Company upgrade its facilities and expand its retail presence. Country Bird supplies KFC in all three countries, as well as Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The resolution process is ongoing. MHP has denied wrongdoing.)

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 25, 2021

But they are also the biggest, most cost-effective climate mitigation solution available – making up 58% of urban mitigation potential, the organization added in a press release. Buildings account for nearly 40% of energy-related CO2 emissions, according to WRI. Learn more about the Zero Carbon Building Accelerator here.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

degrees F) — the target enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement and a touchstone for climate action around the world — even as some scientists say it is no longer attainable. The IPCC authors say it’s still possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 Achieving 1.5

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