Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Environment Act 2021 provides powers for the Scottish Government to develop regulations to introduce a digital waste tracking service in Scotland, which will be implemented by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In California, it’s not just vulnerable families and critical services that could use battery-backed solar systems to ride through wildfire-prevention power outages. CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

UNEP boss warns 'there will be no jab to prevent seven million premature deaths caused by air pollution each year'. Additionally, at least 31 per cent of countries that do have the power to introduce such ambient air quality standards have yet to adopt them. Carlsberg debuts Switzerland's largest electric truck fleet.

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Charged

APRIL 22, 2021

Washington’s legislature has now passed Clean Cars 2030, part of a larger bill ( E2SHB 1287 ) that directs the state’s utilities to prepare for all-electric transportation. The bill passed with a vote of 25-23 in the Senate and 54-43 in the House, and will now go to Governor Jay Inslee to be signed into law.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun.    Last week, we got in tune with power markets to set the stage for a reliable, resilient, and decarbonized grid.   The grid follows a four-step value chain.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators. The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Farmers’ associations like La Via Campesina , which lobbies on behalf of smallholders, have been drowned out by the powerful conglomerates which make up ‘Big Ag’. Yes, digital tools like crop monitoring can help farmers become more efficient. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a post from her official X account on Tuesday, Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), endorsed the “persistence” of Howard Cox , director of the FairFuelUK lobby group that campaigns against charges on motorists. Drivers must get a fair price at the pump.”

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Justice is the foundation for a transition where we literally (for real) stop the sources of pollution driving the climate crisis that are deeply rooted in all aspects of the economy. “In general, making climate action profitable is still being prioritized over pollution reduction and equity.” Of the $626.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The OEP aims to be fully operational in the New Year, when it expects Parliament formally enable the OEP's powers and functions in law. The OEP will also offer independent advice and oversight on the law and other environmental matters.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials. Beyond the issue of pollution, the production of virgin hydrocarbon-based polymers is carbon-intensive due to the extraction and refining of crude oil.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids. To help protect physical and human capital from the threats of climate change, companies can support efforts to reduce emissions from some of the heaviest polluting entities – power plants.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sam also accompanied SEPA staff to a non-compliant site and on a site visit to a legitimate waste operator to see how businesses should be operating to stay within the law and discovers how criminals undercutting these types of businesses can impact on the industry. report, or call 0800 80 70 60.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Here we will discuss the impact of utility prices on electricity bills. The price of electricity is not just a cost to consumers, it also affects the economy in a huge way. They provide power, water, and gas. This causes an increase in electricity bills for consumers that can be as high as 10%.

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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, 2022

As frontline communities we are increasing the self-determination and solutions of our communities — those disproportionately impacted by pollution, damage to the climate, and an inequitable economy — to accelerate systemic change together. Energy Justice for All – HB 1490. Energy for All ( HB 1490 ), championed by Rep.

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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? If not sooner.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. The projects are conducted in accordance with strict performance, monitoring, and reporting (i.e., 40 CFR Part 60 and Part 75) requirements. Learn more and apply. Background.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I am making sure that regulators have the powers they need to take action when companies don't follow the rules, including higher penalties that are quicker and easier to enforce," Coffey said. "I Coffey said the public was right to be concerned about the pollution of rivers and seas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal’s dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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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). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor the development of ESG reporting standards in the EU and globally. Companies in scope should engage early to understand the requirements of the first set of ESRS, and where adaptation in business processes is required to meet these.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. A few days later, RISE St.

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Earlier this year Defend Our Future’s Community Organizing Fellowship launched, adding capacity for on-the-ground partners to amplify local investments in renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure and environmental protection. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Earlier this year Defend Our Future’s Community Organizing Fellowship launched, adding capacity for on-the-ground partners to amplify local investments in renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure and environmental protection. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

That's because the electronic and electrical products we all own, from laptops and phones, through to refrigerators and kettles, often contain very small quantities of valuable metals, such as gold and silver, most commonly within their printed circuit boards. You probably own more gold, silver and platinum than you think.

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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. Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

All carbon pollution is equal: this is a founding assumption of the UN Climate Convention, because the atmospheric effect of a tonne of carbon dioxide emitted from a smoking tropical tree in Mato Grosso is no different from a tonne billowing from a coal power station in Missouri. per cent of all climate finance.

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