Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary defines greenwashing as follows: “Disinformation disseminated by an organization, etc. so as to present an environmentally responsible public image; a public image of environmental responsibility promulgated by or for an organization, etc., What’s needed isn’t silence, but rather information and education.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us Ian Kearns Tue, 02/09/2021 – 02:00 A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. The initiative is the product of a nine-organization collaboration that has the backing of climate campaigner and former U.S.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary defines greenwashing as follows: “Disinformation disseminated by an organization, etc. so as to present an environmentally responsible public image; a public image of environmental responsibility promulgated by or for an organization, etc., What’s needed isn’t silence, but rather information and education.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Responding to detailed questions from CIC, AGA’s President and CEO Karen Harbert acknowledged that the gas industry has “collaborated” with “experts” to “inform and educate regulators” about the safety of gas stoves. Our focus is on the facts and independent analysis,” said Harbert. The documents, however, suggest otherwise.

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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. This information dictates what questions are put forward in the B Impact Assessment. What is B Corp?

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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? In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products.

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. projects, both offshore and onshore, that could inform the transition to scale. Though Europe has examples, the U.S.

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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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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. Then] there’s federal policies such as the Robert T.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. A summary of that paper was published last week on Medium. Inside out.

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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. But we will not get that information for quite a few days,” she added. “As

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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. The World Health Organization.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’re one of the organizations that has contributed to calling for this six-month moratorium on approvals,” Mark Mallett, a founder of the Elk Point-based advocacy group Wind Concerns, told DeSmog. Credit: YouTube “Carbon dioxide is the gas of life,” Mallett said in a phone interview.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

90% of information transmitted in our brain is visual information. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Greta gained public attention after organizing a one-person strike at her school to demand climate justice.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Coal was seen playing a role for a few more centuries. Shell had other plans.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. That information, buried in stacks of TCEQ monitoring reports and memos, hadn’t been shared with the public.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. 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.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Public land-based solutions As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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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

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. “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.

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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. Screenshot of a 2023 press release from National Association of Manufacturers that relies on arguments similar to those the organization used in 1963.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Experts argue this makes Peterson a key organizer at the global level for efforts to oppose and delay action on climate change. “I You can see how climate denial content from Peterson and others has informed policy discussions,” Seiber said. The Legatum Group is a leading investor in the rightwing British television network GB News.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. kilowatt output,” according to the book.

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