Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

(Words by ballast water treatment firm Optimarin) The ‘polluter pays’ principle is starting to hit shipowners where it hurts – in the pocket – when it comes to ballast water pollution of our oceans. Nilsen says invasive species can have “devastating effects” on fisheries, a staple industry of his native Norway.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. Nowhere do the booklets mention electric buses or electric appliances, which, unlike their gas counterparts, do not emit harmful pollutants that exacerbate the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates the offshore energy industry, has acknowledged gaps in accountability that could be enabling more pollution, such as unverified self-reported emissions numbers and flyover inspections that fail to detect pipeline leaks. Credit: BOEM , CC BY-SA 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

But it also marked the moment when air pollution’s harms were finally acknowledged, and efforts began to legislate against it. What’s maybe most surprising is that we lived with air pollution for so long before finally waking up to the recognition that it was harmful, in the 1950s. Monitoring milestone.

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Climate-KIC

JANUARY 28, 2018

Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society has released a new book, “Clean Meat: How Eating Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World,” which details how ‘clean meat’ (meat grown from animal cells, for example) could help mitigate climate change by replacing polluting factory farming practices.

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Grist

MAY 8, 2024

Paris, Moreno’s home, was the first city to put this concept into practice — part of a larger strategy to reduce air pollution and the presence of cars in the city’s iconic downtown areas. Since 2011, the French capital has reportedly reduced car traffic by 45 percent and associated nitrogen oxide pollution by 40 percent.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In a coruscating, righteous rant, Monteiro argues that Twitter could not be better designed for supporting racists and fascists, that the Uber software is deliberately designed to block out those who might regulate it and that professionals designed the ‘defeat device’ that allowed VW to put polluting vehicles on the road.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

But award-winning investigative DeSmog journalist Justin Nobel is working to change that with his new book Petroleum-238 , which exposes an unsettling secret at the heart of the industry (read an excerpt here ). Nobel onstage at his book launch in Brooklyn. Oil and gas companies across the U.S. Where does this waste come from?

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Eco-Business

MARCH 3, 2020

With a children's book that tells the story of marine animals entangled in and choking on ocean plastic, Greenpeace wants to see plastic pollution taught in Philippine schools to encourage students to act on the country’s waste crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

But award-winning investigative DeSmog journalist Justin Noble is working to change that with his new book Petroleum-238 , which exposes an unsettling secret at the heart of the industry (read an excerpt here ). Noble onstage at his book launch in Brooklyn. Oil and gas companies across the U.S. Where does this waste come from?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2022

With this in mind, here are ways you can educate yourself on climate change: Reading articles, books, and watching documentaries. Alternatively, articles and climate change books would be an excellent choice if you prefer reading. It changes your attitude and that of your community toward land and water pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 18, 2020

Her new book, Short Circuiting Policy , is the focus of our episode. We’ll talk about the history of clean energy politics detailed in Leah’s book, which she researched over a seven-year period. Times : Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates. Who are the truly bad actor utilities?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Australia's biggest polluters to face binding 2030 carbon targets. The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc. The green industrial revolution needs strong green industrial regulation.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Places can be booked now, at 09:00 (CET) or 17:00 (CET). The exposure draft is open for public comment until 28 February 2023, after which the submitted feedback will be considered ahead of an expected publication date for the final Standard in the second half of next year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

What continues to define these people as "deniers" in my book is their unshaken belief that climate change is simply no big deal and there is no reason to go out of our way to prevent more of it. There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting to do so," as one recent Heartland document succinctly put it.

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Terra Infirma

MAY 20, 2024

If you’ve never read Silent Spring, it’s actually a complex science book, but one with a preface (a mere two pages) which changed the world. Vision first, then the technical stuff.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 19, 2022

As far back as the 2000 publication of their book, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World , Paul H. Shel’s award-winning 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, lays out a blueprint for creating, repurposing, and MARKETING those profitable change-making products and services. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency. Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency.". CO2 emissions. trillion, climate-and-infrastructure-packed American Jobs Plan. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Deep decarbonization only happens if every polluter pays, not just the environmentally conscious.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mann was speaking last week about his latest book, The New Climate War , which argues that forces that have for decades sought to oppose climate action have now revised their strategies for a world in which the impacts of climate change are "no longer subtle".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

The result is “ The Sky Was Ours “ (Penguin Books, April 23), a modern retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus. SMITH And how did those issues you were reporting on shape the book’s themes? FASSLER This is a book about wanting something better. That longing really worked its way into the fabric of the book.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Registered visitors are therefore urged to pre-book appointments with their chosen exhibitors. The WWEM instrumentation conference will cover highly topical issues in the water sector such as pollution control in receiving waters, CSO spills, data management, climate change and stakeholder engagement.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 2, 2022

Green and regenerative business profitability and marketing strategist and copywriter Shel Horowitz’s mission is to fix crises like catastrophic climate change, pollution, hunger, poverty, racism/othering, and even war—by showing the business world how products and services that fix them can make a profit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dropping or weakening EU laws that have been retained on the UK's statute books since Brexit could cost the economy tens of billions of pounds through the resulting damage to health, natural resources, and business opportunities over the next three decades, a leading group of environmental charities has warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the help of initiatives such as the TFL scrappage scheme, the introduction of the ULEZ and greener transport options, pollution in London has been reduced by more than 40%. From here a customer can also book a collection by one of our friendly drivers, should they not be able to drop the vehicle off at their local site.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The summit will be opened by Southern Water chief executive Ian McAulay, alongside Philip Dunne MP, chair of the UK Parliament Environmental Audit Committee, who has been pursuing legislative changes to the management of wastewater and sewer discharges to prevent river pollution. To book your place visit www.swiftcomply.co.uk/fogsummit.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Late last year, the European Union introduced a $1 trillion plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and achieve a just transition away from polluting technologies. Kevin Book, managing director of research at Clearview Energy Partners. Europe’s Green Deal enjoys strong backing from many of the EU’s top political figures.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 21, 2021

Held between October 2019-September 2020, these conversations reflect the voice of communities most burdened by pollution as a result of their race, health, wealth, and where they live, among other key factors. The HEAL Act serves to improve government performance in achieving the objectives of environmental laws already on the books.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2023 is on track to be the hottest in the books , and unless we want to shatter that record year after year, every country on Earth will have to work together to wean themselves off fossil fuels. The Biden administration thinks it can clean up that pollution with controversial carbon capture technology. We have to have this transition.

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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).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Dembicki’s book illuminates for the first time how these industry players profited from Canada’s oil sands and then spun those profits into international networks of climate denial that would help extend the oil sands’ lifetime. But part of the reason I wanted to do this book was to really educate readers in the U.S.,

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. That’s especially true for the world’s biggest polluters, which are the US and China by far. Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Losing the Scope 3 emissions requirement was a major blow in the eyes of environmental groups that wanted to see agricultural polluters disclose to investors the full depth of their contribution towards global heating. EPA to establish air quality standards to protect the public from harmful air pollutants.

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