Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Dr Darren Moorcroft, chief executive at the charity, said a lack of access to nature was having a detrimental impact on both environmental and mental health. Young people are experiencing an epidemic of climate anxiety and are increasingly worried about the health of the planet," said Moorcroft. per cent in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In a 2016 study, Seattle determined 28 percent of the city is covered in trees, close to its 2037 goal of 30 percent. As Microsoft builds data centers in Iowa, it is also investing in urban forestry projects to bring an environmental and health benefit to the neighborhood as well. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 9, 2021

The University of Washington will soon welcome the brand-new Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, a modern and stunning facility that will serve as a major hub for the campus. In 2016, the University of Washington announced its Population Health Initiative. ” + Miller Hull Photography © Kevin Scott.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6 million hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year. The TRIR, measuring the number of injuries per million hours worked, fell from 3.28 in 2021 to 2.82 in 2022 (down from 5.52 in 2021 to 1.03

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Jillian Lennartz (2016). Founder and CEO, Hera Health Solutions; Memphis. Without further ado, here’s what’s up with members of past GreenBiz 30 Under 30 cohorts.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

PFAS are harmful to health and the environment. PFAS have been associated with a wide range of serious health harms, including cancer, learning and behavioral problems in children, infertility and pregnancy complications, increased cholesterol, and immune system problems. “It 2016-00644). More information.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

During the session, Cecily Joseph, adviser for the Presidio Graduate School Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, highlighted the three major components of sustainability in business today — racial equity, climate change, and health and wellness. during COVID-19 and nearly one-third of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

” The group is a well established health and safety and environmental management training provider, with over 90 years experience of delivering high quality training worldwide. With environmental issues at the forefront of media attention, and economic uncertainty looming, businesses must adopt sustainable approaches.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

Any potential human health implications, for example through contact via bathing or recreation, remain unknown. Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, said: “A harmful chemical cocktail is being stirred up in UK rivers, putting wildlife and public health at risk. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The study details how increasing incidences of heat stress are leading to worsening working conditions, increasing the risk of short and long-term health complications for workers, and undermining productivity in many markets around the world. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. Dasgupta said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

Established in 2016, the firm says it has created a solution to producing a sustainable source of Omega-3 for animal and human consumption – something which is currently produced by extracting the oil from billions of wild caught fish. Edinburgh-based biotechnology start-up MiAlgae has secured further investment of £2.3m

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Charged

AUGUST 20, 2021

Lion has delivered over 390 heavy-duty EVs in North America, and they have driven over 11 million kilometers since 2016. The province plans to eventually electrify its entire fleet of 332 school buses, as well as all its transit buses. Source: Lion Electric.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Famously, in 2016, around 2.5 Batteries 2016 , 2 , 5. In 2006 and 2007, for example, millions of laptops and mobile phones were recalled due to safety fears relating to their Li-ion batteries, and in 2013, a Boeing 787 was grounded following electrical issues with the Li-ion battery in the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Government acknowledged the serious and growing impacts of poisonous particle pollution from brake, tyre and road surface wear on the environment and human health – but diverted attention away from the immediate and urgent need to stop it entering directly into rivers and streams, water quality specialists have warned.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2022

between 2016 and 2020 represent a number 300 percent higher than in the previous five-year period. Tick researchers have differing opinions on how serious of a public health threat Powassan is at the moment. There’s potential for it to become a major public health hazard.” The 134 cases documented in the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Since 2016, we have collaborated with ASU on significant programs including the Planet Incubator Program within ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science , the development of the Allen Coral Atlas , as well as being two of the founding partners in the creation of the Carbon Mapper mission.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. Now, she said, most cases are acquired locally, generally spreading among patients in health care settings. As researchers, academics, and public health groups investigate theories that explain the emergence of C.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johnny Alexander Gunneng is chief executive officer of water analytics platform provider InfoTiles, which he co-founded in 2016. Digital water technologies have an important role in ensuring universal access to safe drinking water by 2030, that is according to a new report from the World Health Organisation. Value for money.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has broachedumpteen pervasive challenges on multiple fronts- health, environment and economy. Although the economy is restoring to an extent but an exponential escalation in the biomedical waste generation has posed severe persisting health hazards and environmental threats. Smart Waste Management: PWC& AWCS.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. EPA USA, 2016.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. between 2016 and 2020. The question remains whether we will be prepared.”. this year.

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Charged

MARCH 12, 2021

To date, Lion has delivered over 300 electric school buses in North America with over 6 million miles driven since 2016. Lion will also provide support and training to LAUSD from its recently opened Experience Center in Alhambra, California. Source: Lion Electric.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

It showed that only 16% of England’s waters – and only 14% of rivers – currently meet the criteria for “good ecological status”, the same percentage as in 2016. However, shying away from necessary action on England’s water quality is certainly a false economy. The post Is England losing the battle for better water quality?

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Grist

MAY 17, 2023

The last year the world saw a powerful El Niño, 2016, was the hottest on record. In bad news for public health, El Niño’s arrival could fuel the spread of diseases carried by mosquitoes, bacteria, and toxic algae. billion trees.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Tesco dairy farmers to receive 80 per cent seed subsidy for plants and herbs it claims can boost animal health, water and soil quality while also cutting emissions. We will also be working together on more innovative initiatives like our herbal leys project, which should bring huge benefits in terms of soil health and biodiversity.".

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The lining materials applied have a design life of up to 50 years, are approved under Regulation 31 of the Water Supply (Water quality) Regulations 2016, which ensures the standards of chemicals and construction products used on the drinking water network in the water industry.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. 1 killer in the country.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

For years, companies have focused voluntary social reporting on metrics that are, let’s say, comfortable: government-mandated data, such as occupational health and safety or certain hiring metrics, that has been measured and managed for years. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here.

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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. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. as clients.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. She was present for 12 indicative votes and voted positively in four.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

It comes as residents prepare to head to the polls tomorrow to vote for London’s next Mayor, in the first mayoral election to take place since 2016 after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

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