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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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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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Kill Zone” The first time Mayfield and many other Chester residents heard of Penn America Energy’s plans was in June 2022, when the regional public media organization WHYY revealed that the company had been shopping around plans to build an LNG terminal on Chester’s Delaware River waterfront since as early as 2016.

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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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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

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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Pollution Technology Organic Europe 28

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 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.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012.

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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

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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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Foster organic farming. Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. According to the Ministry of Health, Costa Rica’s recycling rate has increased by 469% between 2015 to 2017. Government policies were framed under the following axes: Establish national parks.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with sustained winds of 155 mph.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. In 2018 Burberry promised an end to the burning of unsold stock , after it was revealed the firm destroyed almost £30m worth of goods in 2017. But many analysts believe the practice remains relatively common in parts of the industry.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. . ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. For years, city officials claimed they had little power over the facility.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. I use a nebulizer now.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Resilience 52

Resilience Law Government Organic 52

AGreenLiving

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.

Ethics 28

Ethics Africa Health Government 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Charles and David notoriously poured fortunes into funding organizations and projects designed to prevent fossil fuel regulation, often by obscuring the role that fossil fuels play in causing climate change. The reality is they haven’t earned it yet.”. John Beard, Jr. ” The ‘Other’ Koch Brother.

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Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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Fossil fuels Law Government Climate change 107

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. It is also about the costs If you are not interested in creating zero-emission vessels for the environment or your health, you could be concerned over your wallet as a shipowner.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That prediction is finally coming true: A group of Puerto Rican communities, which were ravaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, are suing Shell and other fossil fuel producers in a first-of-its-kind, class action climate liability lawsuit. . The groundbreaking case — filed November 22 in the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Law Climate change Organic 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

Energy Monitor 92

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 92

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. The charges were brought under the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Practices (RICO) Act, a law originally designed to prosecute the mafia. Advocacy organizations are also tackling the issue. By Emily Sanders.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. pounds of volatile organic compounds may be released by the facility hourly. The reported events, he emphasized, were in addition to emissions allowed under a permit issued to GCGV by the TCEQ.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Roy Cooper to lead North Carolina’s DEQ in 2017, Regan worked at EPA during the Clinton and George W. Biden’s pledge to advance his environmental agenda, through executive action if required, will also likely draw on that wide-reaching law. Before being selected by Gov. governments on energy issues.

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Pollution Law Policy Fossil fuels 130

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.”

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