Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Law firm claims individual drivers could receive as much as £10,000 in damages, but German parent company Daimler has promised to "vigorously defend" itself against any group action. Daimler instituted a voluntary recall of three million of its diesel vehicles manufactured to Euro 5 and Euro 6 emissions standards in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Elsewhere, a 2017 paper in the South African Journal on Human Rights identified SLAPPs as an emerging obstacle to public interest environmental litigation in the country. Europe is another problem area. When [people and organizations] are forced to spend money and time in courts, this discourages them from activism,” she says.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Restore, Restory, Restord, On a dreary wet Brussels day in 2017, I walked from the city hotel over to the COST offices for the inaugural meeting of our COST RESTORE ‘action’. We are currently embarking on a series of RESTORE READY events across Europe – Paris, Madrid, Belgrade, Malmo and Sabden are still open for registration.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Related: This “super plant” can actually absorb air pollution Past scandals Let’s time travel back to the “diesel dupe” of 2015. But post-exam, it cranked up and spewed up to 40 times above the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants allowed by U.S. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Dr Steve Mahon, CEO of Mura Technology, said: “We are at the tipping point of an environmental catastrophe – it’s time to seize the initiative and put an end to plastic pollution across the world. ii) Plastics Europe – Plastics: The Facts 2018. Illustration of the planned Renew ELP Advancing Recycling site in Teeside. Geyer, J.R.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“It All Happened Without Any Public Input” Zenith Energy is a Houston-based oil company that operates storage facilities, pipelines, and rail terminals around North America and Europe. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Company profile.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Chapter 15 of the in 2017 published book Sustainable Asia , Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste in Southeast Asia by C. 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.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 97

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment. The EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork Strategy – a package of commitments designed to make farming in Europe more sustainable – aims to cut farm antibiotic use by 50 percent from 2018 levels by 2030.

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 106

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed landmark the deal on Christmas Eve as a major victory for the UK, claiming it was worth around £668bn of trade in 2019 terms, while allowing Westminster to "take back control" of the UK's laws, borders, money, and fishing waters. At the very last moment, a compromise of sorts was reached.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

However, the article fails to address the fact that steelmakers in Europe are moving to “green steel”, which uses renewable energy to avoid the need for coking coal. The decision for the mine ultimately rests with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”. Community activists rally a “flotilla” in opposition to Woodfibre LNG, August 2017. Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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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. Accordingly, we will seek restitution under the law for personal and financial injury caused by any misrepresentation caused by this.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Clearwater began operating in November 2017, according to one drilling industry news site. Pollution Concerns From the outset, many local residents were wary. Permits that allow pollution of the air we breath [sic] with hazardous carcinogenic poisons,” resident Eric Bernhardt wrote.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She/Her/Hers) Sustainability Strategist, Futerra London, UK, Europe J. She believes brands can be profitable and sustainable, a conviction she has carefully nurtured through studies at McGill in Montreal and Columbia University in New York, and through her experience consulting on sustainability projects in Europe and the US.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It simultaneously acted as a potential solution to the worsening greenhouse gas crisis, while still remaining the biggest source of that pollution. In near continuous operation since the mid-90s, and the largest CCS project yet conceived in the North Sea and Europe, Sleipner has a capacity to sequester almost a million tonnes of CO2 annually.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Going further back, a North Sea oil boss gave him a donation in 2017 to help with his general election campaign. Heaton-Harris, while Europe minister earlier this year, said in an official video that the world needed to “go further and faster if we are to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Sadly, this agreement was later revoked under Trump’s presidency starting in 2017, giving Earth Day and its mission yet another political hit. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Sadly, this agreement was later revoked under Trump’s presidency starting in 2017, giving Earth Day and its mission yet another political hit. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A carbon neutrality pledge from the world's largest polluter would be a major milestone for the climate movement and would send a signal to other nation states to boost the ambition of their own climate targets. Europe's train network gears up for growth. New Zealand makes climate reporting compulsory in world first.

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