Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Building a thriving net zero future for people and the planet is the defining challenge of our time. However, assessing environmental performance in carbon-intensive industries remains challenging thanks to complexities in their operations and in the relevant climate science, as well as data gaps that limit analysis and comparisons.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the years, DEMO Day grew into an event that featured lab tours, dynamic speaking programs featuring industry leaders and elected officials, popcorn pitches from our members, and, most crucially, opportunities for the entire climatetech and cleantech ecosystem to connect with our startups. in Somerville, MA!

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

The nursery and greenhouse industry is by no means a main contributor to environmental issues but it is beneficial for all businesses to adopt environmentally sound practices. Other important environmental issues facing this industry are water use and water pollution. Why Greenhouses & Nurseries should become sustainable.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2021

By Paulo Nunes-Ueno , Front & Centered Transportation and Land Use Policy Lead. A robust system of air quality monitoring gave us timely and accurate information about the conditions outside our doors. Here’s a roadmap for how to focus on local health outcomes and make progress on global climate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No The health benefits of these actions alone will pay for the huge investment by the state.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Adopting net-zero by 2050 benchmarks will allow banks to minimize portfolio-wide climate risks and capitalize on the financial opportunities of the energy transition. Transition risks could also arise, as technological and policy advancements cause the value of high-emitting companies to decline. degree scenario. Next steps.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

So, it’s this really close range where we are seeing a potential impact right on women’s health.”. The health effects were worst for women living within 0.6 miles (one kilometer) of a drill site, with the links to negative health outcomes dissipating beyond 1.8 May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

The nursery and greenhouse industry is by no means a main contributor to environmental issues but it is beneficial for all businesses to adopt environmentally sound practices. Other important environmental issues facing this industry are water use and water pollution. Why Greenhouses & Nurseries should become sustainable.

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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 ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

I completely understand the concerns that people have about the health and resilience of our waters, which is why I am setting out this plan for a truly national effort to protect and improve them," she said. Crucially, this plan must help to significantly reduce pollution from agriculture, as well as that caused by the water industry.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Choosing Sustainable Energy Another actionable step towards a greener future involves considering how the energy you use is produced. You can explore providers that use renewable sources, such as wind or solar power, on the Choose Energy platform. Green Commuting Transportation is a major contributor to carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. Two scoping hearings I attending this year held by the U.S. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26 Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5 million.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

To realize its ambitions, Wall Street must integrate climate into its core business, evolving its approach to capital allocation and changing its relationships with carbon-intensive industries. As with other core financial issues, monitoring metrics is just the start. Asset owners will demand no less of asset managers.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Hotels require a vast amount of energy and resources in order to run, and with this comes an equally vast amount of waste generated. Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. Monitor and Evaluate Waste Management Programs Regularly. Minimize Food Waste.

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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).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. The plant is the first joint venture in the Americas between Saudi Basic Industries Corp.,

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 1, 2023

Private-sector investment in clean energy is soaring , driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. 2030 target by 43%, by enacting policies that cut GHG emissions at scale. One year in, the Inflation Reduction Act is having its intended effect of boosting private-sector investment in the energy transition. Don’t miss out!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. It taught the industry how to sell a dangerous and unnecessary product as if it were something useful and even fun. What self-respecting scientist would take tobacco industry money after that?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

Though the storm didn’t devastate the city, 11 of the deaths attributed to Ida were residents who remained in the city and had no way out after power failed. Many were without power for over a week. Venture Global stated via email that it plans to raise the ramp if need be and that it has a separate power source for it.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Dubbed Partnership for the Goals, the wide-ranging targets covering everything from technology to trade, capacity-building to multi-stakeholder partnerships, and data and monitoring to accountability, were developed in the same year as the Paris Agreement amply demonstrated the merits of multilateralism.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our portfolio companies are working on everything from expanding access to solar power in frontline communities and slashing methane emissions by feeding cows seaweed to deploying portable water quality sensors and mapping equity into street infrastructure. What will that 100th company be? What do we look for in a startup?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Today, however, these are tightly-controlled tracts of land where the company harvests fast-growing, non-native tree varieties such as eucalyptus and acacia at an industrial scale to feed its huge pulp and paper factory. But such rapid industrial and economic growth has come at a price.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Let’s discuss the energy provisions in the bill. Before reading through the bill, I like to get a feel for the kinds of energy programs it addresses. Before reading through the bill, I like to get a feel for the kinds of energy programs it addresses. 1 billion grant program to make affordable housing more energy efficient.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 31, 2023

Electric truck maker Rivian will test out customer willingness to pay for clean energy to power their EVs with a new “green charging bundle.” Rivian, RECs, and emissions reduction responsibility ‘EVs are only as clean as the electricity that powers them,’ the criticism goes.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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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. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance. million years.

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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. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance. million years.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2022

A new report from the environmental watchdog group Earthworks alleges that the Railroad Commission’s lax enforcement against operators drilling in known sour-gas fields has endangered the health of Texans, like Jim and Sue Franklin, across the Permian Basin. There’s a lot of competition for these resources to plug these wells,” Palacios says.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But we’re not quite at the point of churning projects out as fast as the bank can finance them or the developer can build them.  But it was also a year where the worlds of policy and finance became leading - not lagging - indicators. Meanwhile, CTVC continued to grow, passing 60,000 industry leading readers.

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