Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain. He also skipped fees for managing a lawful waste operation.” Not only did he charge customers but treated waste illegally.

Waste 130

Waste Waste Law Plastics 130

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

“Farming and rural land management,” he said, “impacts a higher proportion of our water bodies – 45% – than any other source, mostly through what is called diffuse pollution,” he said, referring to chemicals from things like fertilizers and pesticides, which run off the land and pollute water courses. An easier finger to point.

Pollution 246

Pollution Microplastics Agriculture Government 246

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for England provides a legally-binding framework and updated package of environmental objectives to tackle water pollution from water companies, the agriculture sector, climate change, and population growth, according to the EA.

Pollution 38

Pollution Health Agriculture Government 38

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. But these 26 cases are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to fossil fuel pollution. A desperate attempt by big polluters to delay the transition to renewable energy.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Law Climate change Global warming 98

Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

While that might seem like a no-brainer to some, it’s a finding that could have big implications for lawsuits seeking to hold polluters accountable for disaster damages. The specific field of science that examines the connection between extreme weather events and human activity is called “climate change attribution.”

Climate change 139

Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels Law 139

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

Global warming 145

Global warming Climate change Policy Law 145

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

Environmental and health and safety law imposes certain duties on site operators which, if not complied with, can result in legal proceedings, fines and reputational damage. These should be considered by businesses responsible for storing, using or transporting potentially polluting materials. Liability and legislation.

Law 147

Law Pollution Health Demand 147

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

As the science connecting climate change to more frequent and severe weather events becomes clearer, there is mounting evidence that members of the fossil fuel industry coordinated to downplay that link — evidence that could be valuable to lawsuits seeking accountability.

Fossil fuels 138

Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Resilience 138

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.”

Fossil fuels 116

Fossil fuels Climate change Law Policy 116

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.”.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

Law 101

Law Government Politics Organic 101

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.

Pollution 36

Pollution Energy Monitor Plastics Government 36

EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. ” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids. Extreme weather events pose a great risk to a company’s physical assets and areas in which they operate.

Climate change 67

Climate change Policy Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 67

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Credit: Elections Canada The fundraising event, which was originally reported on by The Breach , took place at a private residence in the mountain resort town Banff, Alberta, on April 11, 2023. But he opposes national laws designed to address it. She recently wrote a post detailing Pourbaix’s long history of climate obstruction.

Carbon-neutral 98

Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels Organic 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

Carbon 98

Carbon Pollution Law Climate change 98

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.

Fossil fuels 144

Fossil fuels Climate change Ocean acidification Law 144

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

Sea level rise 91

Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Pollution 91

GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

As it relates to energy, moving away from long transmission lines and centralized power plants burning extracted, polluting fuels and towards a distributed system that combines local energy storage with renewables improves resilience — consistent with the principles of biomimicry. That’s the vision. Do justice.

Resilience 525

Resilience Energy Energy Innovation 525

Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

Earth Day 92

Earth Day Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 92

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

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Climate change Health Soil 52

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.

Pollution 96

Pollution Organic Sustainability Health 96

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!

Solar Energy Monitor 52

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The protests made national headlines and the opposition to drilling has taken on the moniker “ Atlanticazo ,” using a suffix in Spanish that accentuates the momentousness of the event. The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”.

Law 97

Law Government Politics Fossil fuels 97

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that passed last congress were the largest investment to the U.S. Climate disasters are catastrophically costly events. can help mitigate their future severity right now by reducing emissions from high-polluting sectors as fast as possible.The U.S.

Climate change 78

Climate change Carbon-neutral Law Investment 78

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.

Solar Energy Monitor 52

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Organic 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the destruction doesn't stop there, with allegations of attempted evictions of indigenous communities and breaches of slave labour laws all linked to the Brookfield owned farms. This deforestation, that Brookfield say was legal, is estimated to be responsible for the release of carbon dioxide equivalent to 1.2

Pollution 36

Pollution COP Law Government 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the destruction doesn't stop there, with allegations of attempted evictions of indigenous communities and breaches of slave labour laws all linked to the Brookfield owned farms. This deforestation, that Brookfield say was legal, is estimated to be responsible for the release of carbon dioxide equivalent to 1.2

Pollution 36

Pollution COP Law Government 36

DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. Also on the list was a representative from Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec (CDPQ).

Government 97

Government Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Natural gas 97

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 1, 2019

At the same time that he signed a host of clean energy bills into law, Gov. meeting individually with lawmakers; testifying at hearings; writing opinion pieces; signing letters to legislators and speaking out at local events. Under the new policies passed and signed into law by Gov.

Carbon 60

Carbon Law Electric vehicle Policy 60

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.”

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

Fossil fuels 130

Fossil fuels Pollution Plastics Sustainability 130

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.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

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.

Natural gas 130

Natural gas Resilience Batteries Pollution 130

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The government and Ofwat have announced plans to approve 31 schemes proposed by water companies designed to tackle water pollution and increase the country's resilience to drought, amid growing pressure on both the government and the water sector over the country's record on water quality and sewages discharges.

Investment 38

Investment Pollution Government Resilience 38

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.”.

Waste 98

Waste Waste Plastics Pollution 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given," Charles said of his son and daughter-in-law.

Law 79

Law Sustainability Plastics Politics 79

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.

Pollution 81

Pollution Transportation Law Climate change 81