DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. billion people in 2050 even with current production levels.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Continuing the Regen-Notes nature and health theme, the BBC reported on the German trend of waldeinsamkeit , an archaic German term for the feeling of “forest loneliness”. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

On the one hand, population aggregation and transnational mobilisation - results of urbanisation and globalisation - create a complex and highly beneficial 'super network' of interwoven resources, information, means and skills; but on the other hand it makes civilization more vulnerable than ever. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. xii] [xiii].

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This information dictates what questions are put forward in the B Impact Assessment. AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. For more information, we recommend you use this resource. ” Where is the B Corp movement today?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Where did that take you?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This new report focuses not just on how bad things could get if we don’t take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions, but on how bad things already have gotten, with climate impacts hitting every part of the country and threatening the things Americans hold most dear. At the time, there was essentially no research in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law. Workers at the site face particularly acute health risks, Subra said.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. That jibes with a recent United Nations finding that the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis cultivation is "16 to 100 times larger" than that of outdoor cultivation. Inside out.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Project Canary compiles details about each well, including information about the well’s construction, the wastewater it produces, and its track record on spills and accidents. “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At the SCAQMD’s March 2018, board meeting, district staff recommended development and adoption of rules targeting these indirect sources, relying on authority granted to the SCAQMD under the California Health and Safety Code Sections 40716(a)(1) and 40440(b)(3). Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The trillion in health and economic costs; that works out to a staggering $8 billion a day. Spokesperson Kaitlin Power told CBC that the government would carefully review Angus’ proposal.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The spread of false and misleading information about wind and solar energy is now one of the leading threats to the clean energy transition,” David Pomerantz, executive director of the U.S.-based Credit: YouTube “Carbon dioxide is the gas of life,” Mallett said in a phone interview. We are not here to destroy the meeting.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Coal was seen playing a role for a few more centuries.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

However, this relies on a snapshot and an inaccurate assumption: Snapshot : Comparisons between Washington and other West Coast States using US Energy Information Agency (EIA) data showed a temporary relative spike in Washington prices of 49.2 Data, including inflation adjustments, are derived from US Energy Information Agency datasets.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

The purpose of the environmental justice bill “is to give communities like this beautiful community and its people the dignity and the respect under the law where they are able to defend themselves and protect their families and their communities,” Grijalva said. “It’s as simple as that.”. Credit: Julie Dermansky for DeSmog.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS In 2014, the United States Department of Defense, the world’s biggest polluter and one of the largest sources of carbon emissions on Earth, called climate change “ a threat multiplier.” In fact, just a few days ago on May 3rd, the carbon dioxide measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 418.12

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering proposals aimed at reducing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal and gas-fueled power plants. In December 1963 the Clean Air Act was signed into law, barely a month after President Kennedy’s assassination. This not-so-fast rhetoric is nothing new.

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