DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

COVID-19, says the group, is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and although it is believed to have its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities, says the report released on 29 October. .

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com).

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Health 213

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Credit: Anne Rolfes In 2021, Shell launched its “Powering Progress” strategy outlining how it plans to “transform into a net-zero emissions energy business.”

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.)

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The authors say this poses a wide range of direct and indirect threats to human, animal and plant health. This effect, and the knock-on suppressed transfer of energy and nutrients up the food chain, could lead to breakdown of entire aquatic ecosystems. The effects have also been observed in fish.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Health Soil 147

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

I started there with the expectation that real-world finance experience would be useful and that I could navigate to an area of the company that was closer to my interest in renewable energy It was important for me to have an impact and to be hands-on with renewables. It was a powerful experience. I read it through in two sittings.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre. That makes advertising partly responsible for 32 percent of the carbon footprint of every single person in the country; or the equivalent to running 56 coal-fired power plants for a year. Yet, it has a top ESG rating from CDP. The ad industry has pushed back.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre. That makes advertising partly responsible for 32 percent of the carbon footprint of every single person in the country; or the equivalent to running 56 coal-fired power plants for a year. Yet, it has a top ESG rating from CDP. The ad industry has pushed back.

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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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