AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

is contributing up to five times more plastic pollution to the oceans than previously thought, according to a follow-up study published in Science Advances. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. Read more:Â .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California’s right-to-repair law. At a recent White House event, Apple even pledged to honor California’s new law nationwide. That said, these laws have some key limitations. Illustration by Nico H.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Scores of the world's biggest banks are exposing themselves to massive stranded asset risks by continuing to invest tens of billions of Euros in petrochemicals companies such as INEOS and Borealis, which produce plastics from fossil fuels, fresh research has warned.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. The legislation will also phase out the use of single-use plastics, targeting a 50 per cent reduction in the use of single-use plastic bottles by 2030 and a ban on restaurants and takeaways using plastic containers by 2023.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The new goals are a significant step up for the domestic appliance maker, which just last summer pledged to halve emissions from its plants and operations by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Whirlpool has also pledged to enhance its environmental footprint by curbing plastic pollution and extending the life of its products.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The study, Who finances the plastic flood? The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The whole supply chain is a plastic producer's problem.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law. BNP Paribas, according to the organizations bringing the lawsuit, is “France’s most polluting bank” and Europe’s largest funder of fossil fuel expansion.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING has doled out nearly $3 billion in financing to LNG since 2016, according to a 2023 report from Rainforest Action Network and partners.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. Every year, an additional 8 million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the ocean. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Innovators have been coming up with substitutes for plastic products.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. A Plastic Ocean. kg/person in 2013.

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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. Tom West is law and policy advisor at ClientEarth. We should do the same.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. A Plastic Ocean. kg/person in 2013.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

The dispute concerns Honeycutt’s role in scaling back the state’s assessment of the health risks of a carcinogenic chemical called ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize equipment and to produce antifreeze and certain plastics. Now that fight is before a state court judge. The Sierra Club is now an intervenor in the case.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We look forward to proceeding with our case and having our day in court to show how Exxon is breaking the law and to put an end to the deception once and for all,” Attorney General Healey responded in a statement. Huge Win in Court Against Formosa Plastics’ Giant Petrochemical Complex. percent over 2016 levels. coal plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

According to her website, however, she is committed to climate action, and mentions her support for green energy and electric cars, as well as her campaigning against plastic waste. In October 2016, he found in favour of an appeal by shale gas company Cuadrilla Resources against Lancashire County Council.

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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." It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It And somewhere down that list: cosmetics. None of them attend school.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

It comes as the government faced fierce criticism on Friday after fresh Environment Agency figures showed that raw sewage have been pumped into UK rivers, lakes and seas by water firms for more than 11 million hours since 2016, leaving at least 90 beaches contaminated.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One by one, the residents filtered into the small community center and found seats in the rows of plastic chairs. Between 2016 and 2021, the Texas legislature slashed the TCEQ’s funding by 20 percent, even as it increased the state budget by 16 percent. This story shows what has happened in the six months since. Mark Felix.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to a statement published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, China is in the process of revising its Solid Waste Law. Of all waste that was generated, 58% was recycled across Australia in 2016-2017. off their next journey for every plastic bottle they recycle.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi. She works with her sister to reduce plastic use on their home island.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

The blast sent Robby Payne into a plastic tank of liquid cattle feed, knocking him unconscious. Had the explosion occurred earlier in the day, while classes were in session, 665 students and 86 staff members would have been at risk of injury or death, according to a 2016 report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Trevelyan was heavily involved in the pro-Brexit campaign, sitting on the board of Vote Leave in the run-up to the 2016 referendum, as well as being a founding member of the Conservatives for Britain pressure group. But he has reportedly converted from “shy green” to “full-throated environmentalist”, according to close allies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

EPA’s commitments to improve environmental justice include better regulatory enforcement, such as ramping up inspections at facilities in fenceline communities, and ensuring 40 percent of “overall benefits” from federal investments in clean energy and climate go toward historically disadvantaged communities, according to the National Law Review.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

For example, US law prohibits interstate commerce of cannabis and derivative products, meaning that whatever is sold in a given state must be grown and produced there. Between 2016 and 2020, he said, the number of growers cultivating primarily indoors fell from 80 per cent to 60 per cent. And not every state has the same energy mix.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

Then she broke the seal on a sterile plastic bottle, unscrewed the cap, and delicately filled the bottle one cap full at a time. A recent report by the Southern Environmental Law Center, or SELC, found that Scherer’s coal ash was at least 75 feet deep, fewer than 5 feet above the water table.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Daan Tech says that in addition to slashing water use, Bob "adresses the circular economy challenge" because it is made from recycled plastics and has been designed to last at least a decade, without any kind of programmed obsolescence.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Tucked away at a technical college, citizens of the rural town of Peshtigo, population 4,006, try to get comfortable in plastic chairs, ready to hear from state officials, once again, about ways they may one day safely drink their home’s well water. It eventually merged with the publicly traded Johnson Controls International in 2016.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. How will they be enforced and governed?

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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.” It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It And somewhere down that list: cosmetics.

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