DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ted Boutrous of law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher , an attorney for Chevron and chief architect of Big Oil’s legal arguments in these cases , said in a statement that “addressing climate change requires a coordinated international policy response, not meritless local litigation over lawful and essential energy production.”

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

And as extreme weather events become more rampant, it’s increasingly important that farmers have the resources they need to integrate climate smart agriculture practices to ensure our communities have a reliable food supply. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lenlee recently helped organize Colorado Rising’s second Outdoor Series event in partnership with Patagonia. Maliyah Womack jumped into organizing Our Climate, Our Action, Our Climate’s first annual Earth Day art activism event. You can check out our organizer Morgan’s recent reel to see how it went!

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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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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. James Black History event on February 2, 2022. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Lenlee recently helped organize Colorado Rising’s second Outdoor Series event in partnership with Patagonia. Maliyah Womack jumped into organizing Our Climate, Our Action, Our Climate’s first annual Earth Day art activism event. Keep your eyes peeled this August when Maliyah will be hosting a community block party in D.C.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

The industry’s current line of argument in the Honolulu case (and others) is that these lawsuits are about the broader issue of emissions and pollution, and that the federal Clean Air Act preempts any claim brought by cities and states. Last week, the companies asked the Supreme Court to toss that ruling.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last summer’s deluge in London dropped an equivalent of two month’s rain in just two hours, and those flash floods precipitated popped tops on manhole covers and sewage pollution warnings spanning from British streets to Welsh beaches. The best of these models was able to correctly predict an event 91.5% of the time.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Similarly, nothing was mentioned about NO2, or what new powers might be granted to local authorities to strengthen their ability to enforce air pollution standards – something that had also been promised prior to the Bill’s publication. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

in cleaning up pollution in blighted Black and Brown communities until. It is why we were created in the first place, why we worked on identifying the social determinants of environmental health , and proposed legislation to require Washington state to incorporate them in prioritizing the application of environmental laws.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities. The “Make Polluters Pay” campaign billboard in New York’s Time Square on September 18, 2023. They’re important.”

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

But California regulators are adamant that PG&E must find a more permanent and less costly and polluting backup plan in the years ahead — even if it’s not clear yet what form it may take.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

I would urge everyone involved in today's event to join the Race to Zero and commit your region, city or company to reaching net zero by 2050 at the latest.". It's creating combustion that is not only responsible for climate change but as well for the premature deaths caused each year towards exposure to pollution.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The EA released the latest batch of Event Duration Monitorling (EDM) data on 31 March, offering a picture of untreated sewage discharges from monitored storm overflows and CSO s during 2021. Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Annual Water Quality Report from Surfers Against Sewage finds that water companies are continuing to pollute waterways at an increasing rate. Only 14 per cent of UK rivers are considered to have 'good' ecological status, while six out of eight rivers pose a continuous serious risk to human health, the report finds.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

This is despite the government’s 2021 Decarbonising Transport Plan , which lauded the Labour mayor’s efforts on air pollution for its “significant impact on air quality” and on “reducing the number of older, more polluting vehicles that enter London’s central zone.” million times, at a cost to the party of up to £19,100.

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Grist

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Like crude oil, nurdles are highly persistent pollutants, and will continue to circulate in ocean currents and wash ashore for decades. They are also “toxic sponges”, which attract chemical toxins and other pollutants onto their surfaces. An astounding 230,000 tons of nurdles end up in oceans every year. This is simply unacceptable.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

For decades, there was no reliable way of evacuating people in the event of a severe storm; the only way on or off the island was by small plane or boat, neither of which are available or safe during high winds, storm surges, and inundation. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report blames a litany of governance failures, which have been exacerbated by exceptional events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, for creating "a lack of coherence in environmental strategy and policy within Defra and across government.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that we need to phase out all fossil fuels as rapidly as possible,” Ploy Achakulwisut, research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and co-author of the Production Gap Report, said during the report’s virtual launch event on November 8. C by more than 110 percent.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

We are currently embarking on a series of RESTORE READY events across Europe – Paris, Madrid, Belgrade, Malmo and Sabden are still open for registration. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 5, 2020

The Recovery Series, The Missing Link: Pollution, Health & COVID-19 will take place on Thursday, May 7th, 2020, from 12:00 p.m. In this the fourth week of their series they explore how pollution, health and the COVID-19 pandemic are all interlinked. to 12:50 p.m.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Europe’s Green Deal.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Egypt, as this year’s host country for the summit, has hired Hill+Knowlton Strategies to help organize the event and lead on global communications. Decades later, Hill’s PR firm was even a named defendant in many of the lawsuits that sprang up against tobacco companies for their efforts to downplay smoking’s health impacts.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

Rather, this blog will serve as a reflection by someone who was present for the event as an audience member, someone who was there to listen and learn. Richard Moore: Environmental Justice Health Alliance ; Los Jardines Institute. Michele Roberts: National Co-Coordinator, Environmental Justice Health Alliance.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This event was a special conference that the American Petroleum Institute put on with Columbia University as the 100th anniversary of the American oil industry, because oil was first struck back in 1859. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution?

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

This free online event will take place on July 24th-26th, 2020. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Debates, experts, workshops, campaigns, research. Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? We need them.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

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 link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Speaking from Delamere Forest at an event hosted by The Wildlife Trusts, Environment Secretary confirmed plans for a series of heavily trailed new policies to strengthen peatland protection, create new woodlands, and establish wildlife corridors along rivers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2024

The announcement represents a milestone for environmental justice in communities historically overburdened by air-toxics pollution. Credit: Julie Dermansky Community members argue that the parish council didn’t weigh the potential damage from the plant’s pollution against its economic benefits. James, October 22, 2022.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Financial and housing stability supports better health and educational opportunities for children compared to children coping with overcrowded homes, disadvantaged neighborhoods and disruptive moves brought on by high rent prices or eviction. Fixing the current housing crisis is not just a pressing issue for today, however.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle officially opens its doors today, with a performance by British band Coldplay and a series of special events throughout the weekend. Amazon said in a blog post that it is aiming for the arena to "set a new sustainability bar for the sports and events industry".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Regardless of whether governments heed Guterres' advice, business leaders would be foolish to assume climate targets established in the early 2020s will age well as temperatures rise, extreme weather events intensify, and climate predictions become even more frightening.

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