DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. The success of this case has inspired a wave of similar lawsuits in several other countries, many of them successful.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.

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Energy Central

JUNE 2, 2022

Government and business leaders remind us that the energy we get from renewables cannot meet future global electricity demand for the foreseeable future. We, therefore, by necessity need to continue relying on fossil fuels being extracted, processed, transported, and burned.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Industry Voice: Haleon's Sarah McDonald explains how the company’s sustainability strategy is closely intertwined with its purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity. Better everyday health should be within reach of everyone, but too many are held back because of issues beyond their control.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Environment Bill has been hit with a fresh round of delays after an 11th hour move late yesterday evening from the government to remove the landmark legislation from the current Parliamentary session's agenda.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Government-commissioned report argues UK's food system must be transformed to protect the climate, nature, and the NHS. More than half of over-45s are living with diet-related health conditions, it warns, and roughly 64,000 deaths in England are caused by poor diet.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

Meanwhile, Canadian air quality ranked worse than America’s last year thanks to 2023’s devastating wildfire season, delivering huge costs to our health and economy. The government of Canada has a carbon rebate calculator , helping households see how much they pay versus how much they receive in rebates. Here in Canada, farmers in B.C.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Today’s story, from news and politics fellow Akielly Hu, shares the perspective of one young person who witnessed the effects of climate change on the places she loved and decided to take what some might call a drastic measure — suing her state government. And since then, I developed a taste for climate activism.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Conservation charity becomes co-claimant in legal action against the government over alleged failures in plan to tackle sewage overflows. The Marine Conservation Society has today announced it is backing legal action against the government over its failure to do more to tackle sewage spills into English waters.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. a) and RCP8.5 (b).”

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

With Westminster facing yet another day of political turmoil amidst reports the Prime Minister is to resign, the government today announced what could prove to be one of Boris Johnson's most important legacies, confirming it has secured almost 11GW of new renewable energy capacity through its flagship contract for difference (CfD) auction scheme.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. The post Politics and You ! REGISTER. ?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Proposals to block solar farms, revive fracking, and roll back planning rules are further fuelling the impression the government really is engaged in an 'attack on nature'. It is a myth that we can't grow the economy and the environment together," he said.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. The proposals are subject to government approval and consultation with local residents and businesses. billion for PM2.5 and NO2 combined.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. It has triggered a warning from the head of the NHS in England that “the climate emergency is in fact also a health emergency”, while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said this is a “public health crisis”. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. Rightly or wrongly, the government has no plans to introduce new taxes on flights or meat. How wrong was I?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The impacts would be similar to the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, “in terms of level of releases and resulting damages to the environment, health, and safety,” the Multnomah County report concluded. Portland finally had leverage over the oil-by-rail operations.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Adding science seemingly too recent to have been included in the IPCC Report, the analysis from Europe’s Science Academies urges governments to treat the Climate and Biodiversity Crises as one, and as equally urgent. The scientists make clear that governments need to push the reset button.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Cas Mudde, a professor specialising in the populist radical right at University of Georgia, says MCC Brussels’ support of protests fits with the eurosceptic agenda of Orbán, whose political director chairs the think tank’s parent group. “The Van Keimpema added that their quotes had been “taken out of context”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

With the long-awaited Heat and Building Strategy imminent, could the government be set to lay the foundations for a green building revolution? Crucially, it also reported that the government has concluded it is only fair households that rely on fossil fuels should contribute to the cost of moving to new solutions.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

Call comes in letter signed by more than 40 million healthcare professionals backed by World Health Organisation and other influential groups. This is not the time to go back to business as usual, it is a time to take bold steps forward to create a future that protects both people and the planet.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

But campaigners have also accused the government and its regulatory agencies of failing to do enough to crackdown on the practice. Whitty added that any public health dangers come in addition to the ecological and environmental impact which forms the basis for much regulation. We have secured £7.1 We have secured £7.1

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thee government should aim to unleash commercial-scale heat pump projects instead of hydrogen for heating, argues Kevin Stickney, managing director of Erda Energy and part of the Pump It Up campaign. West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embattled government confirms remit of new three-month review on the UK's net zero strategy, which is to by led by Chris Skidmore, MP. The UK government has today officially launched its independent review of how the country can meet its net zero emissions target by 2050 in a way that is "pro-business and pro-growth".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The government may already be facing growing calls from both the public and its own MPs to accelerate the roll out of renewable energy projects, but now some of the UK's leading supermarkets have got in on the act. The UK is still too reliant on fossil fuels and we need to create more UK renewable energy to green the energy grid. [But]

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are only just beginning to appreciate its effects on our economy, agriculture, health and culture. We need solutions to this conundrum quickly, otherwise there will be lost opportunities, expensive mistakes and even more extinctions. The climate crisis we know well; the second, less appreciated threat to humanity is biodiversity loss.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The company issued a public apology and paid $500 million to the Vietnamese government. A lot of people are still on the run because the Vietnamese government is still trying to arrest them,” Bui said. Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Bobby Sands employed hunger strikes in their respective political causes.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The governments of the Netherlands and Germany, as well as oil major Shell, are among defendants who have been ordered by courts to cut emissions faster. The UK is the latest country whose government environmental groups have sued for failing to take sufficient action on climate change. But this is not guaranteed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Ban Ki Moon's call comes as a new report from the Clean Air Fund calls for greater collaboration between philanthropic and government-funded efforts. At the same time, political will to tackle air pollution is rising. "In Outdoor air pollution is responsible for over four million deaths every year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The government insists its plans are on track, but with just weeks to go before the UK leaves the EU farming subsidy regime, campaigners and farmers alike are 'hugely concerned' about the lack of clarity over what comes next. It is meant to be the green jewel in the government's Brexit crown.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The UK economy could enjoy a clean air dividend of £1.6bn if World Health Organisation (WHO) targets for air quality were met, a major new report has calculated. If businesses and government work together to ensure clean air for all, we can protect our health and re-energise the economy at this critical time.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 27, 2021

These efforts range from creating a coordinating hub in the White House focused on government-wide action on climate change, to prioritizing environmental justice, to returning to science-based decision making. The Defend Our Future Team. ###.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 29, 2023

Climate action has become a perennial big issue for voters, alongside the economy, affordability and health care. Yet, climate action remains unlike those other capital-B big issues in one important sense: not every party treats it with the political reverence it deserves. A similar percentage drew the link with recent wildfires.

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