DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading!

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. For a while things had been looking up for Charm Industrial. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. This section also includes industry-specific waste items such as medical waste , agricultural waste , and oil and gas production waste. Yet the most common waste types here are industrial non-hazardous waste and fossil fuel combustion waste.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The certification can be relevant to all organizations , regardless of their size, location, or industry and can help these businesses save money by reducing their water and energy consumption and by limiting what waste is sent to local landfills. ISO 14001 Certification Challenges. Green Business Bureau Certification .

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

BusinessGreen gets the low-down from green experts on the government’s vision for building up a sustainable supply of critical cleantech minerals and metals. We offshored all our industry, and now we're seeing the consequences," he said. Diversifying supply chains.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). It is well documented and well remembered by the investment community.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The certification can be relevant to all organizations , regardless of their size, location, or industry and can help these businesses save money by reducing their water and energy consumption and by limiting what waste is sent to local landfills. ISO 14001 Certification Challenges. Green Business Bureau Certification.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Just a week earlier, Louisiana state regulators approved a preliminary air permit for a proposed renewable diesel unit at a refinery run by the pipeline firm’s parent company, PBF Energy. To date, no photos documenting the scale of the spill or serious impacts to wildlife have been made public. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. The company has relied heavily on a decades-old industry exemption passed in 1980 — known as the Bentsen and Bevill Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act — that classifies oil and gas waste as non-hazardous, thereby affording it little regulatory scrutiny.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing often became smothered in sludge. Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. Credit: Marco Kaltofen.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I always said if I was going to move away from the water I wasn’t going to move into it,” quipped Chris Brunet, who went ahead and signed the last of the documents at the closing. As a witness for Brunet, he realized there was only one set of documents to sign at the closing. Historically, signing documents provided by the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The government, on top of an already bulging in-tray for 2021, is legally-required to respond to the CCC's recommendations by June next year, and many businesses leaders, politicians, experts and campaigners have called on the ministers to endorse the report as soon as possible, and to urgently get started on building a net zero emission economy.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the power of Planet satellite imagery with Amazon SageMaker’s geospatial capabilities. They could also be the changes in soil moisture, soil temperature, and biomass, derived from the different spectral index of satellite data, for deeper crop health analysis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

In order to oversee these stricter targets, the government, the Environment Agency, and regulator Ofwat plan to continue expanding the frequency and duration of their monitoring of sewage discharges, which has risen from around five per cent in 2016 to almost 90 per cent last year, it said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The second, which builds on the government's 25 Year Environment Plan published in 2018, is to create a framework through which successive governments will need to introduce and deliver on long-term and legally binding environmental improvement targets, set at least 15 years into the future, to overturn the decline of the natural environment.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. All those years, they’d been building a constituency. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Random soiled talking, with little thought, are better for sites like ChatRoulette and JerkMate. These stay chat roulette-type sites are higher for quick, soiled speaking as a result of video/audio sharing is the main attraction. It helps build a personal connection so when you actually need to present your appreciation, tip them.

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