GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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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. Global sustainability director Ron Volgewede said the firm recognised its climate impacts extended beyond its plants and facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. Sentencing was deferred until 16 November. Details of the case.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. In addition to plastic waste, 30 to 40% of carbon emissions from cars, buses, airplanes, and manufacturing plants are absorbed by the ocean, causing chemical imbalance in sea water i.e. Ocean Acidification. Waste Reduction The reduction of non-biodegradable waste is another plausible solution to ocean conservation.

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The study was a sequel to 2015 research, which had given a rough estimate of the waste contribution by the U.S. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. The data included American waste exports that were not accounted for in their previous studies. The new study has now revealed that Americans contributed between 1.1

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

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. Producers are already working with refiners and waste managers to source circular and low-carbon feedstocks.".

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Green Tech Challenge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Discarding this amount of shipping containers, that are primarily made out of corten steel, is an enormous waste of resources. Changing the law The idea that houses can be moved is new and unfortunately the present Danish zoning laws and planning practices doesn’t give room to temporary residencies.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

Waste Management: Why we should not only focus on zero waste, but also on how to handle the waste we do produce. By Susanne van Gendt While going zero waste is becoming more and more popular, the trash-avoiding movement leaves behind a majority of the population that is less preoccupied with their waste.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency’s AgStar program trains farmers to turn animal waste into biofuel using anaerobic digesters, but it is optional — 8,000 farms could implement it, but only about 250 have done so. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

And over the last decade serious demands have been made of us to deal with the problem of plastic waste. At the current rate, there will be four times as much plastic in the ocean by 2040 as in 2016. However, there is a critical gap between what can be recycled and what is actually recycled within waste management systems.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2021

On April 22, DeSmog published a year-long investigation by reporter Justin Nobel into the practices of the environmental services company Lotus LLC, which operates a major West Texas disposal facility for radioactive oilfield waste. Justin Hamel’s cameras on the seat of the plane he flew in to photograph Lotus’s waste site.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

Moving beyond our disposable industrial model will require companies who find market solutions to design out pollution and waste, create value from greenhouse gas emissions and other waste products, keep products in use, reuse materials, and regenerate natural systems. Reduce waste by 70% by 2030 , in line with the Aloha+ Challenge.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If you had told me just over three years ago, when I was the Energy and Climate Change Minister who signed the UK's net zero commitment into law, that a thousand days on I would be attending gatherings like this, devoted to that one policy framework, I'm not sure I would have believed you. Yet we have no time to waste.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. And companies have benefited from shifting public sentiment on plastics when they've issued corporate debt with proceeds tied to plastic waste reduction.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The new rules will cover everything from electrical items to cosmetics, in a bid to cut the amount of waste being purposefully destroyed by companies in a bid to protect brand value. Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. EU Parliament urged to adopt 'sustainability charge' on meat.

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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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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Greenpeace has warned that more than half the plastic waste the government counts as recycled is being dumped overseas, as it published the results of a major investigation into how plastic from British supermarkets is being discarded or burned illegally across parts of southwestern Turkey.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

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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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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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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the launch of the US branch of the Plastics Pact the case for corporates to step up their plastic waste reduction efforts are becoming clearer than ever. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms. The change is required by law. Fossil fuel subsidies are currently estimated to be 6.5%

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In practice, it means a rotating cast of environmental experts will act as a proxy for Nature on the company board, where they will be legally bound to speak on behalf of the natural world, in a manner similar to how a guardian acts on behalf of a child in a court of law. From there, the notion of what was possible became clear," says Rose.

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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. Several months back, Apple refurbisher John Bumstead received a batch of about 20 MacBooks from an e-waste recycler. At a recent White House event, Apple even pledged to honor California’s new law nationwide.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Other cannabis companies, he said, make sustainability claims that are, well, half-baked, such as installing "a few token solar panels on a rooftop to make a false impression, emphasising recyclable packaging while vastly greater amounts of nonrecyclable waste from the cultivation process are landfilled, or utilising illegitimate carbon offsets.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This cutting-edge research in some of the most extreme environments imaginable, the company says, serves as an essential growth indicator of sustainable food production methods that do not exacerbate land, food or water waste. This was double the capital invested in 2015, 2016, and 2017 combined. A Star Trek to social licence.

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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. Heather Clancy.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

19 February 2016. Additionally, the authors note RECs are not (and should not be) in a position to address the substantial injustices inherent in the production of renewable energy infrastructure, including resource mining, shipping, and waste disposal. Source: Simuove, Wikimedia Commons. Policy implications and solutions.

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