Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Defra to consult on five-overarching principles to be embedded in landmark Environment Bill, as campaigners warn welcome new approach needs to be embedded right across government. The new principles would inform all future government policies and would effectively replace similar principles that underpinned EU legislation.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. The private sector cannot address the full range of impacts from climate change without strong public policy designed to help stabilize the climate. Cecilia Keating. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:10. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Speakers from government and regulators will summarise the implications of the Environment Act 2021 with regard to ambient air quality, explaining the targets and timelines that have been specified. But not all air pollutants have a greenhouse gas effect, and GHGs are not usually toxic.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

New farming policy stripped of ambition to aid nature recovery, says conservation group. The Government has broken its promise to reform farming post-Brexit. In its National Food Strategy published today (13 June), the Government’s commitment to provide a third of its farming budget for Landscape Recovery has been abandoned.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Since the current government assumed office, it has introduced several cornerstone emission-reduction measures, including carbon pricing, which is widely accepted as one of the most cost-effective ways to cut climate pollution. Now is not the time for provincial infighting or campaigns to axe our most effective climate policies.

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NRDC onEarth

MAY 2, 2023

While the 9th Circuit Court ruling threatens local government action to cut pollution from gas appliances, California policy makers have several opportunities this legislative session to reinforce that local leaders are far from alone in the important work to get fossil fuels out of our homes.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2024

Confirmation Extended Producer Responsibility rules are on the way is part of a trend that suggests a wave of decarbonisation policies will be delivered eventually The government has taken a lot of deserved flak in recent months for diluting some of its key climate policies and generally talking down the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2023

Voters back schemes that charge road users for driving highly polluting vehicles, according to a new poll from Omnisis for DeSmog. People who intend to vote Conservative at the next election support charges on more polluting vehicles by a margin of 47 percent to 36 percent. Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Air pollution is not a new problem in the UK – the London smog of 1952 killed 12,000 people. Since then, the effects of climate change, major industry and lifestyle changes have altered the air that we breathe, for example, coal-burning has dramatically declined, while increased road transport has led to new air pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new system of eco-labels launched by the UK government is intended to help save consumers money on their energy and water bills, but one industry group says the plan will create confusion and expense. The government has set an ambitious target to reduce the use of public water supply per person by 20% by 2038.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On 1 November green groups submitted a letter of complaint to Defra after the Government failed to meet a legal deadline on setting new environmental targets. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Now is the time for effective government policy interventions to deliver these commitments to protect our environment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

MSG had generously proposed to distribute blackout blinds to local serfs, but in the end their application was rejected on the grounds of the inescapable light pollution that would pour over people and wildlife. An advert produced by Badvertising.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. These include council led insulation programmes and the development of heat networks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did external climate scientists, campaigners, and charities, DeSmog can reveal. Ministers met with BP executives on 26 occasions, almost once a fortnight. The tax raised £2.6

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

In 2010, the European Respiratory Society appealed to physicians to “recognise that air pollution is the largest environmental challenge for European citizens, one that currently limits the fundamental right of all individuals to breathe clean air. i] In the UK around 40,000 deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution.[ii].

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A federal appeals court in Canada breathed new life into a youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit against the Canadian government , allowing it to proceed towards trial on a narrower scope and partially reversing the trial court’s ruling that the entire case should be tossed. Initially filed in 2019 by 15 young Canadians, La Rose v.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

The only way to mitigate those risks is to cut emissions at speed and scale and strengthen the grid – and that requires public policy. Decarbonizing has begun, but public policy is crucial to ensuring the necessary reductions to stabilize the climate. This is especially true when it comes to climate-related policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The network will provide “unprecedented ultra-high definition visibility of local air pollution”, says Marc Ottolini, CEO of AirLabs. The firm behind it hopes “to fundamentally transform how we monitor and manage air pollution to improve public health and well-being in urban spaces.” Early adopter.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The project will be led by air quality and public health consultants Enjoy the Air, in partnership with the Sandwell Council, to examine the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area. Citizen health and wellbeing are vital to the UK’s New Economy and future prosperity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

It has been building for several years alongside revelations that AGA has used paid influencer campaigns to defend gas stoves and waged state-by-state, city-by-city lobbying offensives against initiatives to replace gas furnaces, water heaters, and stoves with electric-powered devices aimed at reducing pollution linked to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The new advocacy campaign, named Microplastics Out of Our Drains (MOOD) , is calling for industry and government to come together to take decisive action to tackle the serious threat that microplastics pose to our drains, oceans, environment and overall health.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The two cars have been driving London’s streets, measuring air pollution, since 2018. Advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) together with Mayor Sadiq Khan have released the second wave of data from Breathe London , an ambitious collaborative project to measure and map air pollution across the capital.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Data from the network of sensors, coupled with ‘inverse modelling’, can help to identify sources of GHG emissions, providing city leaders with information to help them decide on climate change policies and observe their impact almost immediately. This is what it would look like for CO2 if we electrified the vehicle fleet.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel. Business As Usual Scenario.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Most polluting fuels for wood burning stoves including coal and wet wood to be phased out from 2021-23 as part of crackdown on particle pollution. The move comes as the government continues to face calls from campaigners to accelerate efforts to tackle air pollution, especially in urban areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The researchers used mandatory annual vehicle inspections – the MOT tests familiar to all in the UK – of all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to those scrapped, destroyed, or driven in the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

On 7 March, the SITC published a report on insect decline and food security, recommending the Government increase focus and support on halting insect decline and other invertebrates. Solutions Included in the recommendations from the SITC is for the Government to develop a National Invertebrate Strategy.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

Long-awaited publication of government's environmental principles for policymaking triggers warnings from NGOs that green protections could now be watered down. Before, all ministers and public authorities were legally bound to consider the principles in policy making that could affect the environment," Greener UK said in its briefing paper.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The UK government has this week launched a major new consultation on how to reduce ammonia emissions from solid urea fertilisers, which have been widely blamed for exacerbating air pollution and soil degradation. Solid urea fertilisers emit ammonia which can harm both natural habitats and human health.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Residents of Jakarta, Indonesia woke up on August 31, 2023, to a thick blanket of haze and news that their city was again ranked the most polluted in the world — one of many times during the last several months when air quality became.

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