GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." We are focused on safety for human health. The company has banned more than 1,800 ingredients from its formulations due to health and safety concerns. None of them attend school.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. tobacco companies faced along the way to a federal court judgment in 2006 for more than half a century of deceiving the public about the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

MPs have today urged the government to set tougher air pollution targets to help tackle widespread health inequalities and address the risk of a surge in car usage as Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased. Public Health England has classified air pollution as the largest environmental risk to UK public health.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Now we need large-scale actions that are good for human health and good for the planet.". per cent, according to the study. But while emissions fell in 64 countries, they have increased in 150 countries, and overall global emissions grew by 0.21

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

“The climate change deniers’ club has gained a new member from the ranks of the right-wing ecosystem that so often feels indifferent to the destruction of natural ecosystems,” said Jolyon Maugham, Executive Director of the Good Law Project, which has challenged the GWPF’s charitable status.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It was also modified to include a focus on projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, consistent with the state’s evolving climate mandates, and in 2016, the program was revised to allocate 75 percent of the budget to energy storage projects.

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Natural gas Batteries Electricity Resilience 100

Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels.

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Cool roof Fossil fuels Cooling Resilience 69

Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for: economic growth, improved livelihoods, job creation, and ocean ecosystem health. Without clean water, health is compromised, and lives are endangered. increase from 2016. Trillion to the global economy annually. Thailand earned US57.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

In a press release, American Energy Partners describes Austin Master as “a full-service, comprehensive environmental services firm specializing in radiological waste management solutions” that provides “professional safety, industrial hygiene and health physics services.” The company has not replied to questions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In January 2022, the EU introduced world-leading laws to curb on-farm use of antibiotics, an integral component of intensive livestock farming where they are used in large volumes to prevent or treat outbreaks of disease among animals kept in crowded conditions. A review of public website domain names data reveals that meatthefacts.eu

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Medicine Policy Law Politics 76

AGreenLiving

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. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

AGreenLiving

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. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

The facility is located just down the street from a high school football stadium and less than 1,000 feet from a set of city drinking water wells, raising public health concerns from a nuclear forensics scientist about the extent of possible radioactive contamination. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests. “We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. Sometimes it’s so bad that she has to spend whole afternoons in bed with her windows closed. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Climate change Global warming Law Government 91

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She is founder of close the gap CA , a campaign to recruit progressive women to run for open seats in 2014 and 2016 in the California state legislature. In 1999, she sponsored a law that set up the first network of marine reserves in the country and served as the model for presidents Clinton and Bush to expand federal reserves.

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Politics Law Policy Pollution 40

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Given its de facto status as a sustainable industry, shareholders are more likely to demand transparency and accountability beyond that mandated by laws such as the U.K. In theory, the renewable energy industry is in a strong position to address such concerns. Modern Slavery Act. Solar energy’s risk hot spots.

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Hydropower Energy Energy Demand 100

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. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing are riddled with environmental and public health hazards. EPA “has consistently reaffirmed that Ohio operates an effective regulatory program that meets federal standards and protects public health, safety, and the environment. Credit: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2016.

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Waste Waste Health Government 95

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The same day the inspector general released its report, the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, working on behalf of Taylor’s group, filed a petition calling on the EPA to force the Denka plant to immediately reduce toxic air emissions and require fenceline air monitoring for chloroprene and ethylene oxide. On December 13, 2016 at a St.

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Pollution Health Government Law 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Kill Zone” The first time Mayfield and many other Chester residents heard of Penn America Energy’s plans was in June 2022, when the regional public media organization WHYY revealed that the company had been shopping around plans to build an LNG terminal on Chester’s Delaware River waterfront since as early as 2016.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Energy Energy 97

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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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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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

The quick-fire departures of former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have left a gaping hole at the heart of his government – which the PM has been quick to plaster over with some rapid Cabinet appointments. Steve Barclay (Health Secretary, Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster).

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Education Health Government Climate change 61

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. It follows a 2016 law passed in France requiring all supermarkets to donate unsold food to organisations redistributing it to people in need, rather than throwing it away. EU Parliament urged to adopt 'sustainability charge' on meat.

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Law Fashion Plastics Waste 36

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Piles of plastic waste, not a single English river clean enough to swim in, insects facing population collapse, land mismanagement leading to fires and floods , air pollution harming children's health - barely a week goes by without more dire ecological news. Here are six ways it can be improved: 1. We should do the same. Set an objective.

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Law Government Pollution Health 76

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Carbon Pollution 72

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children “dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up.” “We are focused on safety for human health. The company has banned more than 1,800 ingredients from its formulations due to health and safety concerns.

Ethics 28

Ethics Africa Health Government 28

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Over five years between 2016 and 2021, major banks including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Barclays, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and ING Group collectively invested almost €22bn in the two petrochemicals giants, despite fears that an already saturated plastics market could soon face curbed demand and stricter regulations, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

As part of its “pigs are more climate-friendly than you think” campaign, Danish Crown quoted a study from Aarhus University, claiming that one kilo of Danish pork produced only 2.8kg of carbon dioxide-equivalent in 2016, down from 3.8kg eight years before. Vion, NAMI and ELV did not respond to DeSmog’s requests to comment on this story.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The campaigners have today accused the government of upholding structural inequalities by failing to take bolder action to prevent plastic waste that is shipped overseas from harming human health and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. This summer, the Port Arthur Community Action Network (PECAN), represented by attorneys at Lone Star Legal Aid and the Environmental Integrity Project, asked the U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Carbon Pollution Nuclear Power Hydropower 52

Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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