DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These documents show how companies worked to erode public acceptance of climate science over the years — including Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s, revealed by DeSmog in 2016, which stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. View on DocumentCloud.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This dataset mapped the density of green roof and wall infrastructure across New York City in 2016. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What’s been less chronicled is the arduous journey companies go through to clean up their mica supply chain, including the often-grueling work it takes to trace the mineral from its source all the way to products, then make the necessary changes to ensure it meets a company’s ethical and performance standards. None of them attend school.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. They added that the “group represents the views of the chemical industry as a whole rather than the views of other sectors, such as fertilizers.”.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

But the firm has ballooned in size over the last six years after acquiring Australian skin care brand Aesop in 2016, UK retailer Body Shop in 2018, and fellow direct-selling cosmetics business Avon in early 2020.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

In a new podcast interview released last night, the South Korean politician and diplomat - who led the UN from 2007 to 2016 - spoke about the challenge of ensuring international cooperation on climate action, while simultaneously navigating various other geopolitical tensions.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Candy Ofime and Jean-Mobert Senga, Amnesty International researchers and co-authors of the report, said: “We found repeated breaches of legal safeguards prescribed in international human rights law and standards, and national legislation, as well as blatant disregard for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The Trump administration has nominated James Danly, who has worked as a corporate energy lawyer since graduating from law school in 2013 and as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's General Counsel since 2017, as the new nominee to fill the FERC commission seat left by Republican Kevin McIntyre, who died early this year.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

McConnell was not taken up by the Obama administration, despite the fact that “[t]here was not a Republican on the commission from September of 2016 to August of 2017.". "I

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