DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

are producing billions of gallons of radioactive waste each day, and it’s ending up in municipal landfills, local drinking water supplies, and the bloodstreams of industry workers and their families. Where does this waste come from? There’s an incredible amount of waste. Oil and gas companies across the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In nuclear power plants, radioactive materials are used to generate electricity. Benefit #6: Waste Disposal Toxic chemicals are used to treat and dispose of hazardous waste. Compliance ensures that toxic substances are managed in a manner that safeguards human health and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

are producing billions of gallons of radioactive waste each day, and it’s ending up in municipal landfills, local drinking water supplies, and the bloodstreams of industry workers and their families. Where does this waste come from? There’s an incredible amount of waste. Oil and gas companies across the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

The race is clearly on for net zero, although different timelines are in operation across different parts of the built environment. Challenging factors with construction include the complexity of the supply chain, and the sheer quantity of waste generated. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Aside from drawing heat from the subsurface, the network will also utilize waste heat from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire / CERN ) particle accelerator. The project is also receiving EUR 10 million from the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME).

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” New nuclear plants producing electricity or heat are allowed until 2045.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some kinds of water pollution, such as algal blooms and plastics that foul rivers, lakes, and marine environments, lie in plain sight. Leaching into water resources from mining operations, nuclear waste sites, or from natural subterranean deposits, the element can now be found flowing out of taps worldwide.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor is in development in Provence, southern France. The Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first nuclear weapon lasted for 6 years. WHAT IS NUCLEAR FUSION? Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Commitments to infrastructure included confirmation that the building of a new nuclear plant at Sizewell C will go ahead. These measures were announced alongside “a major acceleration of home-grown technologies like offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, and, above all, nuclear.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Over the years, conditions at Austin Master have raised concerns from inspectors and advocacy groups alike.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Outfits that receive revenue from nuclear energy or nuclear uranium mining will also be excluded, it added. Companies Scottish Widows has invested in through its Environmental Fund include waste management firm Biffa, which has itself pledged to invest £1.25bn in green infrastructure by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear. A similar pattern has played out with nuclear energy as well. ” Henry Eviston, WWF European Policy Office.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week Study: Lithium batteries from vapes 'plaguing' the capital Resource management firm calls for new approach to UK's recycling systems in response to mounting levels of vape, nitrous oxide, and PPE waste. - by Stuart Stone ( @sstone26 ) . -

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

The water industry is a prime destination for these components, although they appear in a vast range of process technology and other systems, including power generation, whether it be from oil, gas, biomass, energy-from-waste, or nuclear. Actuators play a vital role in the control process.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. All that s**t is dripping down on you,” says Torbett, a 51-year-old former employee of Austin Master Services, a radioactive oilfield waste facility in Martins Ferry, Ohio.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

It shows that during more than half of the time across 2030 (53% of the hours in the year), the UK’s electricity grid is expected to have an oversupply of renewable and nuclear power. In 2030, 72TWh of excess renewable and nuclear energy is expected – equivalent to almost 25% of current demand. Excessive energy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A stronger focus on "better regulation, not deregulation" after Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic are critical to helping businesses to thrive while protecting England's air, land and water from threats such as climate change, according to Environment Agency (EA) chief executive Sir James Bevan. for environmental offences.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Half of the UK's electricity generation could be provided by renewables by the end of next year, provided the government introduces the right policy environment, according to a major new report from the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

"Today's £95m investment will do just that, bringing together the brightest minds across our businesses and institutions to help future-proof sectors from healthcare to nuclear energy.". The new funding is set to be shared by a range of projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But the war didn't ban onshore wind, the war didn't scrap home insulation, and the war didn't stall British nuclear energy.". He said the plan would aim to make Britain a "green growth superpower" by investing in wind, solar, nuclear, hydrogen, green steel, and carbon capture. Frankly, the whole thing stinks.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, told DeSmog: “It is very funny to see the Global Warming Policy Forum asked to provide evidence to a parliamentary committee.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

For too long, hard-pressed families and businesses have been shut out of the discussions around the environment, climate change and pollution. The environment, climate change, and pollution have been a significant and growing part of public discourse for well over a decade. So, here goes. Define 'often'.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. In Japan, a new green hydrogen plant, one of the world’s largest, just opened near Fukishima — an intentionally symbolic location given the plant’s proximity to the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? Jim Robbins.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt underscores government’s commitment to tackling 'existential' climate threat with new nuclear projects and energy efficiency funding, but green groups slam Autumn Statement that 'falls woefully short'. per cent of GDP level. Cheap, low carbon, reliable energy must sit at the heart of any modern economy," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

Plus nuclear fusion, French outdoor heating ban, Spanish green hydrogen plant and all the top green business news from around the world this week. World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly in France. Unlike nuclear fission power plants which are commonplace today, nuclear fusion does not emit high-activity toxic waste.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The government has today finally published its long-awaited Energy White Paper , setting out its vision for building a zero emission energy system for the UK featuring ambitious plans to scale up renewables, clean heating, nuclear, energy efficiency, smart grid, carbon capture, and hydrogen technologies over the coming decade and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

We support a balanced energy mix for our four nations’ journey to net zero, involving nuclear, renewables, oil and gas, where industries are properly regulated and unionised to hold employers to account and maintain the highest safety standards,” he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

Meanwhile, Richard Walker, CEO of Iceland, was awarded an OBE for services to business and the environment following the company's high profile campaign to slash plastic waste and curb its environment impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 Japanese authorities are preparing to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, nearly 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nuclear power stations could be decommissioned in the future with the help of teams of autonomous robots known as the SMuRFs, scientists have suggested. RAICo is a collaboration between the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd and the University of Manchester.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

They ask “How will this lower my carbon footprint, energy consumption, waste, and resource use?”. Frame your messaging to Deep Greens around areas like: Environment. Now, turn them into specific claims: Environment. Working to achieve zero waste within two years by.” You’ll never worry about waste disposal again.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That groundbreaking 2017 law requires large companies to assess risks and impacts of their business activities on human rights and the environment and develop plans to identify and mitigate those risks. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It all becomes waste, dumped into a valley below the site. He pointed to a feasibility study an engineering company filed with Virginia’s department of energy in support of a small modular nuclear reactor slated for a former strip mine in southwest Virginia.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The decision to let solar back into state-led clean power auctions following a six year hiatus is yet another example of the government acting to tackle the challenge of climate change, and presents a welcome additional route to market for an industry that is geared up to deploy in a subsidy-free environment.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Signatories include leading businesses in property, construction, energy, and from across the built environment, such as E.ON The government must invest now in long term solutions to stop vast amounts of energy being wasted by heat leaking from the UK's homes.".

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency.

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