DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Four companies — including BP and Shell — who say Venture Global hasn’t delivered on its long-term contracts have filed for arbitration, and critics are asking if the firm is profiting from the polluting plant. Venture Global asked state regulators for a hearing to fight potential fines for air pollution violations.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Urging clean energy and justice for tribal nations. Today it’s relatively expensive and highly polluting. The shift to cleaner, less expensive renewable energy is rapidly underway, and it’s happening faster than anyone expected. Both operations closed in 2019, resulting in an economic crisis for these Indigenous nations.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

The many faces of energy resilience. This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. Large corporate energy buyers and utilities, in particular, hold the opportunity to build better and make things right. Michelle Moore.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency. One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. In various international climate plans, energy efficiency is increasingly prominent. Catherine Nabukalu. Wed, 08/19/2020 - 01:30.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. million in donations from fossil fuel interests, major polluters and climate science deniers in 2022. His shares in each of these companies exceed £50,000.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. over 2010-2019. Between NO2 and PM2.5, Where PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Opposition leader Keir Starmer has yet to articulate his party’s position on burning wood for electricity – or to clarify whether Labour accepts donations from polluting companies. DeSmog revealed earlier this week that Drax is applying intense pressure across government departments to influence energy policy in its favour.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2023

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar corporate polluter in court and won, has received a 2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism. Her remarkable achievement and ongoing commitment to fighting plastic pollution demonstrates the power of grassroots action to create concrete change.”

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Smog Armor is an exciting, new environmentally friendly paint brand that has created a solution to tackle and eliminate indoor air pollution by adding a mineral that actively purifies the air wherever the paint is used. The post Smog Armor – The Power to Reduce Indoor Air Pollution appeared first on Green Business Bureau.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For Edna Ibarra, it was the realization that with every breath her 11-year-old son was breathing in a little more of an industrial carcinogen that drove her to get involved in the fight against air pollution in Laredo, Texas. If these three pollutants were eliminated,” the Intercept reported, “only one census tract in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most environmentally oriented eyes on the Biden administration are focused — appropriately — on mitigating climate change, creating jobs and transitioning to a clean energy future. The most ambitious bill that could come across Biden’s desk is the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act , introduced earlier this year by Sen.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

The study was completed in 2019. Table 1 (below) shows the biggest waste polluters worldwide, and per capita quantities for total waste generated, recycled, incinerated, landfilled, and disposed of illegally (click to enlarge). In fact, as recently as 2019, no waste at all was recycled in Turkey. No other country recycles less.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has published its Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) data for 2020 following a cyber-attack in December 2020. SPRI provides a valuable picture of the amount of pollutants released in Scotland from SEPA-regulated industrial sites. Impact of COVID-19.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Air pollution in China has climbed back to pre-pandemic levels, and scientists say the same will probably happen in Europe soon. Data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) shows that concentrations of fine particles (PM2.5) European cities also saw major drops in air pollution during the lockdowns.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in the United States in 2014, according to new research on the sources and destinations of fine particulate matter produced by electricity generation. Others, like West Virginia and Illinois, are “net exporters” of air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We have long advocated for a new system that relies on more distributed energy resources spread across communities, but state commissions have lacked modeling tools that show the pathway for local energy resources, like solar, batteries and geothermal for instance, to benefit our electricity grid. The results are striking.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Final official greenhouse gas data for 2019 revises down previous estimates slightly, with road transport still the UK's biggest emitter. per cent in 2019, finalised statistics confirm today, with domestic transport remaining the single most carbon-intensive sector of the economy. per cent in 2019. per cent, the statistics show.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, deputy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government’s 2020 budget : “Taking action to cut carbon pollution and seize opportunities in climate change solutions requires a sustained effort, day after day and year after year. drivers money and cut pollution.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Higher prices would have cut CO2 in 2019 by 2-18 million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2), some 0.5-5.0% of overall UK carbon emissions.".

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores. At least a million seabirds are killed annually by plastic pollution, while estimates suggest there are around 270,000 metric tonnes of plastic now clogging the world's ocean.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 12, 2020

Planet imagery shows the usually-busy Venice canals in October of 2019 (left) and the nearly empty waterways on March 18, 2020 (right), following Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s call for a countrywide lockdown. Compared to July 5, 2019, traffic on the surrounding streets was greatly reduced. Pollution Pervades.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Lucy Victoria Desai, a writer for Northern Powergrid who specialises in sustainability, business, and innovation, appraises the potential and practicalities of wind energy. Now that the world has placed a greater focus on the effects we have on the environment, finding more environmentally friendly ways to source our energy is vital.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog. This could have dire health impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Department of Energy has announced that a subsidiary of U.S.-based billion federal program to scale up DAC, which the Energy Department has called the “world’s largest investment in engineered carbon removal in history.” In theory, it could help remove “legacy emissions,” or the carbon pollution that has already been emitted.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental activists hailed a decision by a court in The Hague on 26 May, which ruled that Shell must reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% within 10 years (compared to 2019 levels). This case is unique because it is the first time a judge has ordered a large polluting company to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. Seven of the 13 refineries also reported similarly high levels in 2019, the report notes.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The combination of the hot weather and the increased energy running along wires go beyond what they were built to endure. America’s energy infrastructure scored a C-minus on the U.S. Air source heat pumps collect more energy from the air than they use. Heatwaves are a double whammy for the electrical grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The NRG was formed in the wake of the 2019 general election, when a wave of Tory MPs took over traditionally Labour-held ‘red wall’ seats across northern England. We were promised a Northern Powerhouse, with genuine green jobs and clean energy, and instead we seem to be receiving backdoor deals with corporations.”

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Woodside’s spending on looking for new oil and gas reserves was $160m in 2019 and dipped to $96m in 2021 – a year affected by the Covid-19 pandemic – before rising to $418m in 2022, according to a report by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The 7th Global Summit and Expo on Pollution Control will take place in Paris, France on December 03-04, 2019. This summit is subtitled: Advanced Technologies and Brilliance of New Era in Pollution Control. Thia event offers well organized scientific program including keynote presentations, workshops and networking opportunities.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Raft of new studies underscore the myriad adverse impacts of the UK's chronic air pollution, but also make clear that the solutions - including shifting away from fossil fuel cars - are quickly ramping up. and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on the development of working memory.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Companies providing off-grid energy access raised over $2.1 billion in corporate financing between 2010 and the end of 2019, including nearly $470 million last year, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. The C&I energy access opportunity. Globally, nearly 3.5 Integrated electrification planning is key.

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Front And Centered

MAY 15, 2019

To bring us closer to that future, we pursued four priorities in the 2019 legislative session. It mandates that all utilities provide energy assistance programs to residents with lower incomes, ensures investments in clean energy benefit impacted communities and incentivizes improved labor standards for workers.

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