Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. A recent analysis found the emissions saved from electric cars have been more than cancelled out by the increase in gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs).

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

Agriculture’s formula is pretty similar no matter which part of the world you’re in: settle down, work the land, reap what you sow, and build a surplus. Most of the nearly 8 billion people on Earth eat food that’s evolved to be larger, industrially produced, and mechanically harvested. Of course you have.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

While 70% of total expenditures are directed toward “Clean Energy & Clean Air” investments, additional claims on those funds may diminish the amount made available for direct emission reduction activities. the fee) and targeted investments. In total, nearly 30 percent of fossil fuel emissions from in-state activities are exempt.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There are over 2,600 people living within three miles of Oxbow Corporation’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, a community that’s almost entirely people of color. From 2016 to 2019, the plant pumped an average of over 22 million pounds of sulfur dioxide, which can cause lung disease, coughing, and eye irritation, into the air each year.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. E.g. a recent study by Plymouth University estimated that a staggering 700 marine species are threatened with extinction due to the build-up of plastic trash.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. That is the narrative.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. In deals this week, $125M for biomaterials made from CO2, $33M for grid power storage optimization, and $26M for carbon-sequestering cement. Happy Monday! Meanwhile, the ice in Antarctica is way behind its typical seasonal growth this year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Today, however, these are tightly-controlled tracts of land where the company harvests fast-growing, non-native tree varieties such as eucalyptus and acacia at an industrial scale to feed its huge pulp and paper factory. But such rapid industrial and economic growth has come at a price. The result?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The video and anecdote raised a smile at a time when the world is facing its biggest collective health and economic crisis since at least the end of the Second World War. But five years on the monitoring framework for SDG16 targets remains inadequate, particularly on governance and corruption, which makes it difficult to measure progress.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

The community group was borne out of the fear of breathing toxic air after learning in 2016 that the EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment identified their community as having the highest risk of cancer from airborne chemicals in the country. If I had more powers, trust me, I would use them,” he told her.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Cindy recently took to the political arena after years of cooking and cleaning with just bottled water. Boyle, the town supervisor, said the DNR was doing everything in their limited power to help, but the company responsible is “uncooperative.” It eventually merged with the publicly traded Johnson Controls International in 2016.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In those cases, advocates agreed that the board put science before deference to industry and the president. Those expectations, however, were exceeded.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 28, 2020

His attacks on the Clean Air Act, the Clean Power Plan and cleaner cars increase climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions and are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. The same report indicated that these health costs amount to $886 billion a year. percent between 2016 and 2018.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

Without Tony Bowdoin’s grandfather, Georgia Power might never have come to the quiet town of Juliette. By the late 1960s, Georgia Power had started planning to build the Robert W. Scherer Power Plant. The acquired land could tell a story about the environmental and public health costs of inviting a coal plant to town.

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