DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The data on air pollution impact is limited, especially for recently-implemented schemes. Dozens of local grassroots groups formed to oppose them, voicing concerns over poor implementation, lack of consultation, and feared exacerbation of existing economic and health inequalities. But these schemes also attracted fierce opposition.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The group is calling for tobacco-style advertising bans and health warnings to counter fossil fuel companies’ “deceptive” marketing. But while the ad shows Exxon scientists hard at work developing “ algae farms ” and technology designed to suck carbon dioxide from the air, its business activities tell a different story.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 18, 2018

energy efficiency measures have eliminated the need for the construction of 313 large power plants since 1990, reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions by 490 million tons in 2015. This also means significant avoided emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides, lung-blackening particulate matter, and other harmful pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. assets under management that engaged in ESG investment strategies grew by 42% compared to the beginning of 2018, reaching $17.1 For instance, at the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. This could happen to my son any day of the week," she said. "I

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025. Porter declined to comment. The BBC and the Today programme did not respond when contacted for comment.

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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]

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. The National Geographic Society found that 91% of the world’s plastic was not recycled in 2018. In 2018, the recycling rate for plastic bottles was just over 29%. In 2018 the recycling rate for aluminum cans was 49.8%.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ) Digital Innovation Manager, BASF; Sao Paulo, Brazil COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. .”

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? million people living under the poverty line (World Poverty Clock, 2018). In 2018, the policy think tank of the Indian government, NITI Aayog, announced a massive ‘holistic development’ plan for the islands. What does this boy care about climate change?

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Such materials can contain caustic or toxic chemicals which harm human and environmental health. Cut out big carbon polluters and replace them with sustainable suppliers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. In 2018, the U.S. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. “This could happen to my son any day of the week,” she said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

It is possible that the joint commitment to co-operation on climate matters could provide the foundations for co-ordinated action to one day impose carbon tariffs on those countries that fail to honour the goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon pricing and energy. Electric vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not. Lower carbon future.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft hit headlines at the start of year with a hugely ambitious plan to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 , backed by a pledge to - by mid-century - retroactively remove all carbon dioxide the company has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975, in an announcement that sent shockwaves across the corporate world.

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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). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“The need for an advertising ban is clear and urgent: every year fossil-fuel pollution is directly linked to 34,000 premature deaths in Canada and over 8 million globally,” said Sabrina Bowman, interim executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). The bill proposes fines up to $1.5

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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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 The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Broadly, members wanted the UK to quickly stop selling the most polluting vehicles on the roads - e.g SUVs - and a two to five per cent reduction in car use each decade.

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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. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS In 2014, the United States Department of Defense, the world’s biggest polluter and one of the largest sources of carbon emissions on Earth, called climate change “ a threat multiplier.” In fact, just a few days ago on May 3rd, the carbon dioxide measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 418.12

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. A 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed warming beyond 1.5 O boy, was I triggered. The problem is absolutely immense.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

work toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in all areas of the nation’s economy by midcentury, reaching net negative emissions beyond that. An analysis of the plan’s impacts from think tank Energy Innovation quantified its health and climate benefits at nearly $8 trillion by 2050 in 2018 dollars.

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