DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

Macy Pressley, a spokesperson with EPA Region 5, which covers Ohio, says EPA will work with local property owners to obtain access to collect samples, and that the Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) have been notified.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“By charging them, we can both seek to hold them criminally accountable and send a clear message to others about how seriously we take protecting the environment and public health.”. In one instance, a subcontractor named Laney Directional Drilling was drilling underneath Raystown Lake in central Pennsylvania in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This case is “truly historic,” said Sébastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law. In 2017, damaging wildfires in Portugal, made worse by climate change, killed more than 100 people and sparked the youths to file the lawsuit, which began in 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

“We are prepositioning about 360 megawatts of temporary generation to meet critical community needs” at substations, health care facilities and other locations, Smith said. billion in 2017 wildfire claim costs and retire about $6 billion in temporary debt.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

biodiversity (protecting health of local wildlife and water bodies), lower strain on aging utility infrastructure (reducing the risk of damage and repair), local revenue (sourcing materials from local businesses), and new green jobs ( there’s a growing need for developers, builders, policymakers and agents knowledgeable about sustainability).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The study, which is under peer review in the scientific journal Lancet Planetary Health, is based on surveys of 10,000 children and people aged 16-25 in 10 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia and was carried out by academics from institutions in Europe and North America.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. The report also found that at least a third of wood pellet facilities violated their air permit limits in 2017.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Clifford Rechtschaffen was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Jerry Brown in January 2017. *. De-energization can have significant health, safety and economic impacts for communities affected, particularly for customers who depend on electricity to provide them with life-sustaining medical support.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

As part of the strategy, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a consultation on the Government Buying Standards – a set of minimum health, animal welfare and sustainability requirements for food served in some public institutions. The government has direct and influential tools to shape the food system.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. Those include health and environmental impacts from sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate pollution , as well as the plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that add to human-caused climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. Those include health and environmental impacts from sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate pollution , as well as the plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that add to human-caused climate change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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. The group has been working since its founding in 2017 to help companies across a range of industries clean up their mica supply chains.

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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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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Washington’s solar workforce grew by eighteen percent from 2018-2017. Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. The report took stock of the workforce pipeline and hiring practices of Oregon and Washington’s solar industry. .

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Those blackouts did, however, prevent a repeat of the catastrophic grid-sparked fires of 2017 and 2018 that killed scores of people and caused the tens of billions of dollars of damages that pushed PG&E into bankruptcy last year.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In summary, the Court of Appeal determined: If two statutes of limitation of equal authority apply to a claim brought pursuant to CEQA — one contained in a general state planning and zoning law and the other contained in a statute specific to CEQA — and the two cannot be reconciled, the more specific limitations period pursuant to CEQA prevails.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In summary, the Court of Appeal determined: If two statutes of limitation of equal authority apply to a claim brought pursuant to CEQA — one contained in a general state planning and zoning law and the other contained in a statute specific to CEQA — and the two cannot be reconciled, the more specific limitations period pursuant to CEQA prevails.

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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. billion in tourism at the close of 2017. Trillion to the global economy annually. Thailand earned US57.5

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If The funds can also be used to mitigate health and safety barriers, like mold and asbestos, that impede efficiency work from being done. Activists met the news with incredulity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The food industry depends on the health of the natural environment and we must work collectively to drive the transformational changes needed to meet the UK's climate commitments… We already use 100 per cent renewable electricity across our own operations, from green certificates, Power Purchase Agreements and on-site generation.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2020

Facts about CBD In 2018, Congress passed a law legalizing hemp in all 50 states and removing CBD from the controlled substance list. As Health reports, “CBD might be worth trying to manage symptoms of anxiety.” Hemp Roundtable, said in an interview with Health. Third-party testing confirms that the label is accurate.

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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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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’. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

The scheme has brought a 56 percent reduction in nitrogen dioxide levels in central London, 47 percent in inner London, and 37 percent in outer London, compared to levels in 2017. Experts in election data laws have previously criticised the Tories for using petitions and polls to harvest data from signatories without consent.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are a number of bills that were passed by the Colorado legislature in 2021 and signed into law by the Governor that will turn money and initiative towards the development of the industry’s workforce. According to the Just Transition Fund , coal employment dropped 13 percent in 2017 with 162 industrial coal jobs lost.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Yale School of Public Health, however, released a study last year that found that Pennsylvania children living near fracking wells have a two to three times elevated risk of a form of childhood leukemia. The union has provided White with more than $87,000 in donations since 2017, according to campaign finance data from Transparency USA.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

“The purpose of Airlite was to create something that makes a difference to human health and well-being in the built environment,” said Chris Leighton, VP of sales and marketing at AM Technology, the company responsible for Airlite paint. The engine ran below its normal level during the test. When caught, VW leaders were contrite.

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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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