GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. RWE is set to receive €2.6

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The most polluting energy source has become an irrelevance. The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. But the encouraging outlook for gas power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is arguably more surprising.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

But the British firm stands apart from most of its peers because it is one of the few operators in the world that creates its aggregates using captured CO2 and waste materials and is already today selling the resulting carbon removal credits to blue chip clients, including tech giant Microsoft.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating and toxic pollution. ” Background on Earth Day. The first Earth Day took place in 1970.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry. Three years later, in 2016, Country Bird also became KFC’s sole franchisee in Zambia. From 2000 to 2016, the global obesity rate increased by 4.4

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025. Fossil fuels are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet, according to the IPCC.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The airline and cruise ship industries undeniably have a large carbon footprint. Quark Expeditions, the operator of the tour I was on, also touted its plans to cut carbon emissions. In late 2016, the U.S. We as tourists or whatever we are doing here are participating in destroying the things that we care about,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

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. The firm’s spokesperson said that Veolia helps polluting companies to improve their environmental performance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The data on air pollution impact is limited, especially for recently-implemented schemes. These concerns ranged from increased air pollution for brown and Black communities near LTNs that saw increased motor traffic, to economic impacts on businesses contending with blocked streets, as well as access issues for disabled people.

Pollution 98

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. Meat Industry Playbook.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. According to the Aluminum Association , four six-packs can hold up a two-ton vehicle thanks to the packaging’s aversion to rust, corrosion and ability to withhold carbonation pressure. This allows more municipal recycling programs to stay in service.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The Holocene.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

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

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? A small kingdom in Asia seems to be offering an alternative At a time when citizens are desperately asking their governments to take action, there is one country that is already carbon negative; it is the land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan. He has reason to believe so.

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Climate change Government Education Investment 52

AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 28

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. xiv] Fine-particulate air pollution costs Canada overall about $53.5

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 44

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

She wrote: “The claimants point to clear evidence of negative taxation flows in particular years; specifically negative tax flows overall in 2015-16 and 2016-17 of £2 million and £359 million respectively.”. The government disputes this, and “billions” does not appear in today’s judgment.

Fossil fuels 80

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Below we’ve listed the core standards in the ISO 14000 family: ISO 14004:2016 – Guidance Standard : Offers additional insight and specialized standards for implementing an EMS. The business emits 5kg of air pollution, 1kg of water pollution, and 10kg of waste. Other standards under ISO 14000 build on ISO 14001:2015.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic Energy Monitor 78

GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 the process of exiting the European Union has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride. Carbon pricing and energy. Electric vehicles. Both have also explicitly reaffirmed their 2030 renewable energy targets in the deal.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

Energy Monitor 97

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. Public land-based solutions As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Natural gas Carbon 28

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. tar sand oil pipelines on October 11, 2016.

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Climate change Sustainability Fossil fuels Law 147

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 528

Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS In 2014, the United States Department of Defense, the world’s biggest polluter and one of the largest sources of carbon emissions on Earth, called climate change “ a threat multiplier.” In fact, just a few days ago on May 3rd, the carbon dioxide measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 418.12

Climate change 55

Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Agriculture 55

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. O boy, was I triggered. We can make exactly the same things and do the same stuff with biomass, it does not have to be made from a fossil source. (6)

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 78

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Hoyle lost that 2016 primary, but in 2018 ran for Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. Canning also signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge and says that candidates accepting money from polluting industries are part of the reason there has been so little action on climate at the federal level. November, 2019.

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