Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

On 6 April, climate-action non-profit The Climate Group announced that Climate Week NYC will not be postponed and will take place as scheduled on September 21-27, 2020. Visit www.climateweeknyc.org or follow #ClimateWeekNYC to receive regular announcements and keep up to date with Climate Week NYC 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By nearly all measures, 2020 was a trying year. Here are the top solar stories of 2020. After more than a year of lobbying, solar companies and renewables trade groups in late 2020 secured an extension of the industry’s treasured tax credits. The 2020 election. An ITC extension.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 24, 2024

It has been a very busy year for climate policy, and the Administration is finalizing a lot of the important rulemaking we’ve been tracking. Reach out if you are interested in discussing climate priorities for the rest of the year and what the future of climate policy may look like. Happy Earth Month! And the progress will continue!

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In a significant turnaround from a spring forecast clouded by COVID-19 pandemic concerns, the International Energy Agency has revised its expectations for 2020 global renewables additions. “Governments will resolve this health crisis. The country is the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Brown, female and on the bus: A personal journey into transportation policy. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 01:30. With this shift in mentality taking shape, I entered a public policy program, aiming to learn about community-based economic development and social equity work. Sahar Shirazi. I got my first passport at 6 months old.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. Montana first enacted a state energy policy in 1993. Steve Gunderson introduced legislation to repeal the state energy policy. In the lawsuit, Held v.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

The analysis summarizes human health and environmental impacts associated with over 50 weed killers offered by one or both retailers online and in their stores. Human health. Consumers are increasingly aware of the health risks associated with common products. Reputational risk. Regulatory and legal risks. While the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

This piece was authored by Muhammad Abdullah, an 2023 summer Transportation Policy intern with Energy Innovation and Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch, Director Transportation and Senior Economist. But further policy action is needed to speed their adoption. 8] Globally, ZEV truck sales doubled in 2022, reaching 1.2

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 01:30. Now that the results of the United States presidential election are in, it is time to focus on what business can do to promote a policy agenda that will accelerate the transformation needed to shift to a truly just and sustainable economy. . A vision for a Biden-Harris sustainable business agenda. Aron Cramer.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Will Rogers is health and safety director at Eco Verde Energy, a firm that provides operational, advisory and back office support to anaerobic digestion plants. Site managers and operators must be aware of the risks, as well as the policies and protocols in place, to protect anyone working on or visiting an AD site, from harm.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With 2020 now past the halfway point, we check in on the top public utility commission (PUC) actions and trends so far this year. In particular, there are a number of ongoing proceedings on performance-based regulation , which seek to better align utility financial incentives with desired outcomes and state policy goals.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:45. Its decisions impact the air we breathe (indoors and outside), the water we drink, the food we eat, the health of the children we give birth to and raise, the cars and fuel we purchase, the beaches where we swim, the chemicals we consume (voluntarily or involuntarily) or the quality of nature that we enjoy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. parts per billion (ppb) in 2020, the largest annual increase ever recorded, and a sharp increase from the 9.74 The post Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. million years. ppb rise in 2019.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2020

Fri, 06/26/2020 - 00:30. It’s impossible to untangle Black communities’ current risks from America’s long history of racist policies and practices. How Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice. Rachel Ramirez. I can’t breathe."

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People around the world are increasingly aware of and impacted by climate change, which is connected unsurprisingly with a parallel uptick in associated mental health stress. But providing supportive services requires a better understanding of climate change’s effects on the mental health of all people.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST. Back by popular demand, join us for the Future of Carbon Policy Forum. We will examine the pivotal role that carbon policy can play in addressing the multiple challenges of economic recovery, public health, transportation, and equity.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It was not enough on November 3, when a majority of white people voted for the incumbent president whose policies are literally killing them. Only 35 percent of white registered voters said in the April 2020 survey that climate change was very important for them in the recent election, in contrast to a majority of Latino and Black voters.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

In the document, the science advisory group calls for far-reaching policy action. So far, EU policies have centered on the concept of ‘Nearly-zero energy buildings’ with a focus on reducing the consumption of energy used to provide comfort to building occupants. But the energy used for operating buildings is only part of the story.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

She called 2020 an "incredible year" that demonstrated how business leaders can step up to embody their company’s social mission statements, pointing to new partnerships created to support COVID relief. There’s a big gap between aspiration, policy and action," she said. . There’s a big gap between aspiration, policy and action.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. It’s also possible that market signals could drive many of these notions forward without policy action. "We

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 3, 2022

Thankfully, as was the case almost two decades ago, the province has the power to tackle the problem, potentially saving thousands of lives and billions in health-care costs. A 2020 study found that every gas car swapped for an electric version on GTHA roads came with around $10,000 in social benefits. Except that isn’t happening.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, philanthropic donations by major donors saw an almost 7 percent increase on a year-to-date basis. Joseph noted that racial equity is especially at the forefront of philanthropic strategy given a rise in calls for racial justice in 2020 in the corporate sector. Myisha Majumder. Tue, 02/23/2021 - 00:05.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This week, Energy Innovation launched a significant model update to the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. This update is timely. As of version 3.0,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:45. If I may simplify the two men’s stances, Donald Trump’s energy policy looks backward to the energy that powered our past, and Biden is looking forward to the fuels of the future. Clean energy policy is economic policy. Clean energy policy is climate policy . A vote for clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. But while the renewable energy industry endured a turbulent 2020, coal remains the dominant player in India’s electricity mix. During the 2019/2020 fiscal year, the average coal-fired power plant ran just 55.5 Businesses closed.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards. This compares to roads within the zone, which were on average last week just 55% of 2019 levels, up from the lowest point of 6% recorded week commencing 4th May 2020. The most congested day was Monday 7th September, when congestion was 153% of 2019 levels.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. That's a very different question.".

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. This is preventable.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 01:40. Climate lobbying" in the report is defined as efforts "to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.". health insurers are all invested in the fossil fuel industry" and will call on insurers to divest from these companies, calling them "the greatest threat to human health.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 31, 2020

How does one even begin to talk about the year that is 2020? Not only did the pandemic affect our health and personal lives, it also fundamentally challenged our political, social, and economic norms too. 2020 has seen record levels in corporate ambition on climate change, as companies look to 'build back better'.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

Those shared relationships are impeding action on climate change and contributing to increased health harms to the public, undercutting the health organization’s own mission, according to the report by F Minus, a nonprofit group that tracks fossil fuel lobbying. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. parts per billion (ppb) in 2020, the largest annual increase ever recorded, and a sharp increase from the 9.74 The post Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. million years. ppb rise in 2019.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered as a year in which humanity weathered a dangerous and fast-spreading disease, costing companies and governments billions in management and recovery. Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. Source:WSP, 2020. Source:Rume, T.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The project will be led by air quality and public health consultants Enjoy the Air, in partnership with the Sandwell Council, to examine the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area. Citizen health and wellbeing are vital to the UK’s New Economy and future prosperity.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Mon, 08/17/2020 - 01:00. Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action. It starts with equality, and it leads to the health and resilience of people and the planet.

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