Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But the law is too lenient. BNGAI uses AI and satellite data to provide habitat mapping, detection of invasive plants, and data to help profile the health of trees and plant populations. It will make no dent at all in the £5bn annual gap in funding for nature recovery.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While there is a way to go to reverse the decline, this shift is gaining momentum following regulatory change such as the EU Nature Restoration Law in July 2023, and greater investment in nature-based solutions. The findings were clear: wetland conservation proved to be the most crucial ocean-based climate mitigation solution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s a general truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, an idea clear to Lord Kelvin over 100 years ago¹ and enacted by health & safety professionals when they carry out risk assessments (or check the effectiveness of controls). However, the Code has a special legal status. References.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. Evidence of the pubic health problem presented by PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. However, the Government has now failed to deliver against one of the most important legal requirements of that Act – to set binding legal targets to improve environmental health. million hectares.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Gauthier Eppe Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that pose a significant threat to human health and the environment. 5 New sensitivity in food contaminant analysis POPs pose a significant threat to human health and the environment. ” American Journal of International Law 95.3

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million households – lacking easy access to nature (and the huge health and wellbeing benefits that come from it), the voluntary organisations coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has warmly welcomed new Green infrastructure Standards from Natural England (announced on 31 January). Let’s get these standards in law.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Natural Resources Wales, the Environment Agency and local authorities must publish all the water quality data and manure management information they hold – and then step up to enforce the law, ending the scandal of so-called ‘risk-based regulation’ (which effectively means self-regulation).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

COVID-19, says the group, is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and although it is believed to have its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities, says the report released on 29 October.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

World Trade Center responders had a higher likelihood of developing liver disease if they arrived at the site right after the attacks as opposed to working at Ground Zero later in the rescue and recovery efforts, according to findings reported by researchers working with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

By June 2020, about 40% of adults in the US were struggling with mental health, and 13% of those had started or increased their substance use, according to survey results published in an August 2020 paper by another team.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These pollutants, which include particulate matter, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and toxic substances such as benzene, have been linked to health problems ranging from respiratory disorders to reproductive problems to cancer. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The research also reveals over eight in ten people (86%) want to support farmers who are creating wildlife habitats and restoring soil health. Over nine in ten (96%) want to see public money support farmers who are implementing restorative measures covering soil health, biodiversity, carbon-storing and water quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

We know that these pollutants are bad for our health, and the significant reductions we saw in pollinator numbers and activity shows that there are also clear implications for the natural ecosystems we depend on.”. Previous laboratory studies by members of the Reading team have shown that diesel fumes can alter floral odours.

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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. For example, if the spill affects neighbouring land there can be claims for clean-up costs under the law of nuisance. But it doesn’t have to be complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

Unraveling how that came to be turned into a 20-month Rolling Stone magazine investigation , which won an award with the National Association of Science Writers, and an entire set of shocking DeSmog investigations. law, it is still considered nonhazardous. As you will see, this indeed was the case. And yet, by U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The charities are also urging members of the public to add their name to demands for stronger nature recovery action from all political parties at: [link] Notes [1] The Freedom of Information response from Defra can be found here.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation. See both documents in DocumentCloud.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Steyn made his claims in the National Review, a prominent conservative magazine, and has continued to stand by them. and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health. Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

.” “Despite warm words and promises to listen to health professionals and worried parents,” she said, “when it comes to the crunch, they have chosen to let the public down.” in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity. Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

vii] Carpet made with PVC backing releases dioxin when burnt, which is a known carcinogen, while a recent report by the Center for International Environmental Law in the US stated that incinerating plastic waste ‘releases toxic substances including heavy metals such as lead and mercury, acid gases and particulate matter’.[viii] ix] Hilton, M.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Gary Wallace, Area Environment manager for the Environment Agency in the North East, said: “All of those sentenced have shown a complete disregard for environmental laws, which are there to protect people and the environment.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

His mother went for law and his father for business. A lot of my mom’s friends were of the civil rights generation, so there were these Black kids who were the first in their families to go to college and also go to law school. I became an editor in the early tech scene, writing for tech magazines and video game websites.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As highlighted in BBC Disclosure’s recent broadcast, Dirty Business, criminal activities including fly-tipping, illegal dumping, and the illegal export of waste abroad can blight communities, harm the environment, and pose a risk to human health. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Particulates and health. Hand in hand with gas levels comes particulate matter, more commonly referred to as PM, the health risks of which are understood to be especially acute with PM2.5 and PM10 (particulate matter measuring 2.5um and 10um, respectively) and smaller particles.

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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.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

SDS offers a full design and installation service to support Public Health Engineers, developers and commercial operators and ensure correct system sizing for maximum savings. In London, where planning laws encourage water recycling, up to 20% of new buildings include greywater reuse systems.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. PUCs can approve rate recovery for safety-related advertising that utilities are required by law to communicate to the public. NW Natural claims its school booklets are aimed at improving public safety awareness.

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Michael Grossman

JUNE 9, 2019

While this isn’t an actual law of physics, it should be because it’s spot on 100% of the time. Others court controversy by picking trivial fights (See: magazines in grocery store checkout lines). The media abhors a vacuum. Monsanto never got ahead of the alarm, and the rest is history.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the end of the year, Time Magazine named 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as their youngest “Person of the Year” ever. Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. People are taking notice.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. One odd detail mentioned was that, in fact, sheep faces are more impactful on human health than that of other animals, so data about animals and their proximity to a river definitely would be useful, to swimmers and so on.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It won’t happen without it thriving,” Rhoman Hardy, senior vice president of Shell Chemicals and Products, told Business and Industry Connection Magazine regarding the company’s plans for Louisiana. “We’re in a moment of realizing that the chemical industry is key to the energy transition. Shell Norco.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Air pollution does not just cause health problems, it also presents a significant social and economic burden.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Everyone wants the oil from a well but what they actually get is anywhere from 4-10 times as much water as oil,” PB Oil & Gas, a magazine published by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, reported in May 2020, “depending on the basin and the age of the well (water cuts tend to increase as a well’s oil production decline curve plays out).”.

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