DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Mitigation.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. On the same day that Antero filed its lawsuit, Veolia filed counterclaims for more than $118 million.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

If his soil could be healthier, his crop yield higher, his profit margins wider, he makes it happen. Big businesses often find it cheaper to pay somebody like Garrett to trap more carbon than it is for them to change their ways. Garrett harbors a seemingly unquenchable urge for progress on the farm that he runs with his father.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. Planet-healing fast food. Circular outdoor gear.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. But when the men arrived home after a long day, the job came with them too. “We Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. Credit: Marco Kaltofen.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It’s also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. “Right now, over in North, you can’t name 10 Black businesses — they ain’t there,” she said. In many ways, Maleta Kimmons defines her neighborhood by what it lacks.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Now it is home to sharks, seals and seahorses. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. We need to remember though that the polluters are not just big water companies or careless businesses - they are us, the public, too.

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