Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For Local Authorities, the issue is not only the £392 million a year it costs, but also the risk to public health. Fly-tipping undermines confidence in local government; and can lead to a huge number of complaints that must be handled by an already stretched customer facing team. Fly-tipping blights communities.

Technology 165

Technology Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 165

Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Traditional government grant programs designed to help fleet owners replace diesel trucks typically focus on one-to-one vehicle replacements, rather than the system-wide investments needed to support the transformation of this sector, the authors say. Source: Environmental Defense Fund via Green Car Congress.

Innovation 87

Innovation Investment Health Policy 87

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

But this latest attempt to shut down discussion of the health impact of stoves is nothing new. More than 50 years ago, in 1972, AGA authored a draft report highlighting indoor air pollution concerns similar to those being raised by health experts and regulators today. This draft, recently discovered in the U.S.

Pollution 98

Pollution Natural gas Health Government 98

Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2020

If the government is serious about the utilising nature-based solutions, we need to turbocharge the market for urban greening, argues the UK Green Building Council's Philip Box. These include potential savings for the NHS by improving mental health, air quality and urban cooling.

Biodiversity 73

Biodiversity Resilience Cooling Health 73

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Argentina’s risky gamble on fracking has led to massive environmental and public health costs , and despite years of government support , the industry remains on shaky financial ground. But the Argentine government has wagered heavily on replicating a North American-style fracking boom, often with U.S. The government spent $6.5

Fossil fuels 80

Fossil fuels Government Policy Investment 80

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A year later, the Indian government legalized mica mining in an effort to allow the sector to be regulated, root out child labor and ensure better wages and conditions for mine workers of all ages. We are focused on safety for human health. None of them attend school.

Ethics 430

Ethics Africa Health Government 430

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 17, 2019

By Boma Brown-West This week, a new investigative report by Healthy Babies Bright Futures, a children’s health advocacy group, revealed that there is still more work to do in eliminating contaminants of concern, including lead, arsenic, and cadmium, from infant and toddler food. Why this matters.

Agriculture 70

Agriculture Health Organic Resilience 70

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

Instead of showing up to work each morning eager to install solar arrays on high school rooftops or at underused fields on small family farms, we’re now staying home to ensure healthcare professionals have the space and resources they need to fight coronavirus. was the $90 billion the federal government invested in clean energy.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Climate change Packaging 78

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We are now able to help our clients to meet the stringent regulatory requirements that govern PFAS contamination.”. Working with the University of Georgia, we have developed a solution that can be set up onsite and eliminates PFAS-concentrated liquids in a sustainable and cost-effective way. About PFAS.

Aviation 145

Aviation Waste Waste Technology 145

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hyperspectral imaging offers a vast array of spectral insights as it divides the spectrum across a multitude of spectral bands, enabling analysts to review phenomena in many differentiated colors that are typically beyond human visual perception.

Business Energy Monitoring 111

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Methane 111

Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

In many rural communities, the precautions we all try to take to avoid the coronavirus, like social distancing and frequent handwashing, are impossible to achieve with no running water, weak health systems, and work that requires close proximity. This pandemic does not recognise borders - we're united in an interconnected crisis.

Agriculture 67

Agriculture Climate change Resilience Health 67

AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead? At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change.

Climate change 52

Climate change HVAC Resilience Demand 52

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

They also need to carry enough computing power to support a growing array of prepay and pay-as-you-go options and diagnostic capabilities, all without reliable internet connectivity or the typical back-office utility IT staff and technical support that come with a full-scale utility deployment.

Business Energy Monitoring 130

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

On Thursday, October 15th, from 9am-4:30pm PST, Planet is convening a group of experts in sustainable development, climate science, finance, philanthropy, conservation, NGOs, public health, along with senior corporate leaders and indigenous leaders, to explore the answers. . Participation is free, though registration is required.

Sustainability 102

Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

EDF + Business

JULY 14, 2020

But, science is linking our exposure to certain chemicals in everyday products to adverse health and environmental impacts. Investors aren’t alone in holding companies accountable for addressing chemical risk.

Retail 64

Retail Policy Health Sustainability 64

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It will also feature segments on trailblazing women in 2020 and prioritizing health to rebuild the economy. The event will also provide an array of networking opportunities including information kiosks, media outreach and virtual meetings between delegates and speakers live and in-person.

Health 52

Health Education Resilience Agriculture 52

Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Building these long, thin solar arrays could prevent more than 80,000 acres of farmland or natural habitat from being converted for solar farms. Fighting these weeds with herbicide and mechanical equipment is expensive, and herbicides threaten human health and the environment. While India has built solar arrays over canals and the U.S.

Climate change 110

Climate change Agriculture Electricity Resilience 110

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And as concern over climate change and dietary health mounts, that trend is set to continue. So, how can the UK government help accelerate the shift towards more sustainable diets without restricting public choices? The global race for alternative proteins is on and the UK should be leading the charge.".

Agriculture 36

Agriculture Government Health Climate change 36

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The report , which draws from government data, raises concerns about the potential health effects on those living near the refineries and the federal enforcement that the high levels of this cancer-causing air pollutant should trigger. More than a dozen U.S.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

The Roadmap reflects the input of a diverse group representing state, local, and county government; the solar industry; farmers; environmental and community organizations; the electric utility; businesses; and academic institutions. Mid- to large-scale solar arrays, like the one at the H. Defenders of Wildlife.

Electricity 107

Electricity Climate change Organic Innovation 107

Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Nwanaji-Enwerem, an environmental health scientist and final-year medical and public policy student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. “It That’s not exactly the case, said Nwanaji-Enwerem, the health scientist at Harvard. Cooking with gas. “You Your house, our problem.

Pollution 81

Pollution Health Policy Government 81

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In an era when consumers have a greater array of food choices than ever before—and are more health-conscious than ever before—giants such as General Mills, Kellogg Company, Target Corporation and The Hershey Company are taking a more careful look at the potential nutritional and health applications of products in development or already on the shelf.

Demand 52

Demand Biotech Startups Health 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In an era when consumers have a greater array of food choices than ever before—and are more health-conscious than ever before—giants such as General Mills, Kellogg Company, Target Corporation and The Hershey Company are taking a more careful look at the potential nutritional and health applications of products in development or already on the shelf.

Demand 52

Demand Biotech Startups Health 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices.

Building Energy Monitoring 97

Building Energy Monitoring Soil Agriculture Carbon-negative 97

Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

Intensifying expectations—from investors and financial markets, governments, customers and the public at large—have made sustainability and climate action increasingly important elements of corporate strategy and governance. This reserve is home to critically endangered wildlife such as the western lowland forest gorilla.

Sustainability 94

Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 94

Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

We tend to think of spring’s arrival as something that just “happens,” but the spring awakening in the plant world is governed by the finely tuned relationship between plants, animals, and Earth’s weather and climate. In some parts of the world, spring brings rains, warmer temperatures, singing birds, and flowering blooms.

Climate change 59

Climate change Medicine Agriculture Soil 59

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy Bob Kerr Thu, 01/14/2021 – 01:00 For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. and elsewhere.

Health 36

Health Policy Law Asia 36

AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2020

At 20,000 square feet, the massive building offers residents a range of services including early learning spaces as well as several health centers. From the onset of the project, the architects worked with the local government to ensure that the new structure would be incredibly energy-efficient.

Solar Power 28

Solar Power Health Sustainability Government 28

Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But 12 years later, as governments plot their path out of the coronavirus crisis, the coalition of groups demanding an explicitly green recovery strategy has proved to be broader, deeper, and armed with compelling polling and encouraging data.

Resilience 76

Resilience Packaging Aviation Fossil fuels 76

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports. And that not only affects people’s health, it also undercuts the economic benefits that the coal industry touts.

Energy Monitor 94

Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 94

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Canada Team Meet the ‘Extreme’ Atlas Network Groups Fighting Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap By Geoff Dembicki Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details of its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, an array of attacks against it started popping up.

Fossil fuels 56

Fossil fuels Carbon Agriculture Climate change 56

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

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. When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward.

Solar Energy Monitor 73

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 73

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00.

Politics 475

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 475

Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy.

Resilience 40

Resilience Climate change Cooling Sea level rise 40

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. Convergence of transparency and governance.

Investment 493

Investment Climate change Ethics Government 493

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The health and welfare of the millions of households who are worried about soaring energy bills, the UK's long term economic prospects, and the stability of the biosphere itself all depend on these climate sceptic talking points being consigned to the parallel universe in which they belong.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Technology Energy Energy 101

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Despite lower carbon dioxide emissions, the combustion of biomass can release other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds, which may affect local air quality and raise health concerns. Provides economic predictability for businesses due to a stable and potentially lower-cost energy supply.

Energy Monitor 94

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 94