DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

He was troubled by the fact that state and federal agencies failed to alert the public in a timely fashion, despite their being informed about the spill the day the pipeline ruptured and coordinating for weeks with the operator on pollution containment and cleanup. “The pipeline has been repaired, pressure tested, and covered with soil.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Water companies must invest a collective £56bn towards tackling sewage spills and improving environmental practices over the next 25 years in addition to facing the "toughest ever" pollution targets, as part of a major crackdown on water pollution announced by the government late last week.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Higher temperatures also fuel droughts causing snow pack melt, more moisture to evaporate from lakes, reservoirs, and soil, and drier shrubs and trees. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

are heading down a pathway that could exacerbate emissions by rolling back environmental and pollution regulations. Extensive research has been done on the co-benefits of climate policy, including: Improved human health (with reduced air pollution and meat consumption lessening disease burdens and increasing physical activity).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene. The Great Acceleration – Beyond Natural Variation.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

These events can also have a positive impact, such as enriching the soil with newer nutrients, but in most cases, they cause more devastation than good. Floods Cause Erosion And Sedimentation A fertile layer of soil is the bedrock for fostering any kind of biodiversity, whether terrestrial or aquatic.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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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. The idea of ‘green fertilizers’ to market the company’s products as less polluting, however, is seen by some as corporate greenwashing.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. We see particularly strong opportunities in increasing the affordability and availability of new mobility options for residents in low- to moderate-income communities, who often have the longest commutes and suffer the most from pollution.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to Kurnik, hydroponics and aeroponic farming use less water and don't degrade soil like traditional farming, but for vertical farming to become environmentally sustainable on a carbon emissions level, these systems need to source electricity from renewables such as solar, wind or hydro. There's the pollution side.

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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. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. A clue may be found in Poppe’s approach to a crisis.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ The implications extend nationwide. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Meanwhile, progress has stalled in several other key areas, the report states. Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The overestimation has been put down to methodology changes last year designed to "better represent emissions from drained and rewetted inland organic soils". Our progress will run out of steam unless the government starts taking serious action on other high polluting sectors," he added. per cent in 2019.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The majority of these bags had been ripped open, allowing small pieces of plastic to escape, and in some cases plastic waste been covered in soil with more plastic dumped on top, it added. UK waste exports to Turkey have surged from 12,000 tonnes to 210,000 tonnes a year between 2016 and 2020, according to government figures.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. Some days you may feel like you’re the only one concerned with what is happening to the planet.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

According to an anonymous industry insider, a type of oilfield waste known as “pipe scale” appears to be stored in these tanks at the Lotus facility around 2015-2016. Lotus executive James Dillingham told DeSmog that these photos taken around 2015-2016 “are not representative of how Lotus, LLC manages waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Ambitious targets covering everything from waste and water quality to soil and air pollution are set to have huge influence, potentially providing a raft of environmental issues with a long term goal and focus akin to that provided for the net zero transition by the Climate Change Act and the CCC.

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AGreenLiving

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. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. A clue may be found in Poppe’s approach to a crisis.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

But just as food production and consumption are key drivers of climate change, creating a regenerative food system can help us sequester carbon in soil and create healthier waterways and ecosystems. We are particularly interested in innovations around: Soil health and carbon sequestration technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia. This will NOT bode well for our watersheds.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. In 2016 alone, Salas received over $45,000 in donations from oil and gas interests.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn’t lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I From there, he launched a career in environmental consulting, where he worked with factories, military bases and lumber mills to address remediation, compliance and air, soil and water health. Zack Angelini, 29.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses. But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. Not for her own benefit.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

James—says that Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group’s 2,400-acre Sunshine Project , which is slated to be built in a vulnerable floodplain amid intensifying climate-driven hurricanes and tropical storms,”presents an unnecessary burden for our already-polluted community.” Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.) and Donald McEachin (Va.)

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

On May 4, 2016 he visited Flint to see first-hand the devastation to the lives of Flint's citizens as a result of their lead-poisoned water supply. That visit resulted in the declaration of a federal state of emergency in January 2016 and contributed to a nationwide awareness of the city's critical situation. So here I am."

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. “But what really got me interested in sustainability was back in investments,” Collins recalls.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

After deforestation rates in Indonesia soared to record levels in 2016, they have since fallen significantly. It is against this backdrop, APRIL has also been trying to turn around its reputation for environmental destruction, pollution, and land disputes. The result?

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Grist

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Officials told residents that plans to provide new groundwater wells are coming from the company responsible for the pollution, but not everyone gets a well. The pollution stems from Tyco’s operations at a fire testing center that operated from the 1960s to 2017. This community has not been treated fairly,” Boyle told Grist.

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