Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. 1) Reduce plastic waste in your kitchen. 3) Get a home energy score. – Oregon Department of Energy.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

Understandably, the larger a company is, the more waste it produces, the more resources it uses, and the more energy it consumes. So the carbon emissions, resource consumption, and waste production from every small business add up. . Every business, large or small, produces waste pollution and consumes energy and resources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

College students may be spending more time than usual in their dorm rooms as a COVID-19 precaution, so make it more eco-friendly with these ideas to conserve power, water and food. Energy efficiency checklist? Find tips on how to shop for energy-efficient bulbs at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Shower shoes?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Other important environmental issues facing this industry are water use and water pollution. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Our first research report looks at natural gas flaring, the wasteful and polluting practice by which oil and gas companies burn or simply release natural gas due to gaps in planning, practices, and incentives. Our new research shows a wide range of flaring practices across the energy industry.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Other important environmental issues facing this industry are water use and water pollution. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. It is the first to explicitly reference reduction of unabated coal usage.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now. Emissions have grown by an average 1.4

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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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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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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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%)*. Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Emissions have increased from an average 1.4

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. McDonald’s straws were still contributing to our waste problem using a linear economy rather than a circular one. “For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 6, 2023

ESG By EDF: Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World MethaneSAT: A New Era of Transparency for Methane Measurement Environmental Defense Fund’s MethaneSAT will fill critical gaps in the capabilities of existing methane satellites and be a powerful tool to accelerate climate action.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. McDonald’s straws were still contributing to our waste problem using a linear economy rather than a circular one. “For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

For decades, oil and gas companies disposed of millions of barrels of waste down that hole, ringed with cement and steel, dubbing the wastewater well Freshwater City SWD 01, according to state records. Done right, plugging can stop climate-warming methane emissions and other environmental issues like water contamination.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Choosing Sustainable Energy Another actionable step towards a greener future involves considering how the energy you use is produced. You can explore providers that use renewable sources, such as wind or solar power, on the Choose Energy platform. You’ll contribute to reduced pollution and traffic congestion.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Biomethane from sewage, renewable power, peatland restoration, and tree planting feature heavily in Water UK's sweeping new decarbonisation roadmap. The new plan envisages the development of up to 3GW of new onsite solar and wind generation capacity in order to meet around 80 per cent of the industry's power demand.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. More broadly, backers of hydrogen energy and CCS tend to see environmental advocates as obstacles to these technologies. Lake Maurepas at sunrise.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. We expect this to continue until power is restored.”.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As always, equity and access is at the forefront of our mission to fund critical solutions for climate change, particularly in communities affected by the compounding effects of pollution, vulnerable infrastructure, and limited economic opportunities. Upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The 6 types of retail packaging waste. That is, 17.6

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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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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The data is drawn from various sources, including the Global CCS Institute; the International Energy Agency; the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis; the Geoengineering Monitor , and DeSmog research. Storing this waste product underground continues to save Equinor hundreds of millions in annual taxes.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our portfolio companies are working on everything from expanding access to solar power in frontline communities and slashing methane emissions by feeding cows seaweed to deploying portable water quality sensors and mapping equity into street infrastructure. There are several key problems we seek to address in the global energy sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Like many emerging economies Indonesia has a rapidly growing population to feed and house, and exploitation of its natural resources has helped raise living standards for millions, while increasing its economic power and influence on the global stage. NGOs including WWF and Greenpeace gave these commitments a cautious welcome.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

They’re looking around corners to build a better way forward for our energy, water, mobility, and food systems. As this cohort came into focus, a few trends emerged: Unlike the energy sector, which is increasingly distributed, water infrastructure remains highly centralized. As water crises increase both in the U.S.

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