DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

“It is reassuring to have a court acknowledge our right to hold the Transportation Department accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis,” said 19 year-old plaintiff Kalālapa Winter, whose case is represented by nonprofit law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice. “I United States. Hawaii is one of them.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The revelation came after years of fighting with officials to obtain data on water and air pollution levels. For years, the First Nation community suspected that the petrochemical companies were exposing them to dangerous pollutants. Aamjiwnaang First Nation is a small region in Ontario surrounded by petrochemical facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. ClientEarth lawyer Katie Nield decried the fact that there was “no legally binding commitment to meet WHO air pollution standards by 2030 in the Bill.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

While farmers have protested against an anticipated surge in bureaucracy from proposed green laws, complaints also focused on low prices at the farm gate and lack of protection against increasingly extreme weather. A number of other far-right linked farmers groups were also present at the Brussels meeting.

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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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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new target levels for air pollutants to be included in the Environment Act, including a reduction in the PM2.5 Particulates and health. and PM10 (PM4.25

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

More data is becoming available to help with understanding why so much sewage is being spilled in UK rivers, and fascinating efforts are underway to interpret it and present it to the public in an accessible and transparent format. At present the data on the site covers the past three years, including that for 2021. Up to date?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

It’s having government agencies enforce public health laws without fear of repercussions from powerful polluting industries. Members of Washington’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Task Force are continuing to learn about life on the frontlines of climate change and pollution. Some of the main issues raised included: .

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Healthier communities – Sustainable buildings create healthier communities due to less intrusive and pollutive building methods, lower use of toxic materials (e.g. Sustainable real estate and development aims to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With microplastic pollution everywhere, the findings are sobering. UMC Utrecht scientists presented their research at the Plastic Health Summit in Amsterdam on Thursday, warning that immune cells that attack microplastics are three times more likely to be damaged beyond repair, consequently prompting an immediate inflammatory response.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. Pearson also hosts The Telegraph’s weekly Planet Normal podcast with Sunday Telegraph Columnist and GB News presenter Liam Halligan.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The government also backed last year's Global Biodiversity Framework, which similarly commits to reverse nature decline at the global level, and has passed a new Environment Act that incorporates a suite of legally-binding targets covering water quality, air pollution, habitats, and other areas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. The damage to the health and wellbeing of residents along the pipeline route is incalculable. The MVP has received over $2.5 billion MVP is now $2.5

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

The government has proposed 13 legally-binding targets for England covering water quality, air pollution, biodiversity, and waste - here they are in full. The nutrient targets, meanwhile, are designed to address the country's two principal sources of nutrient pollution, such as from fertilisers for example. per cent to 17.5

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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). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Continuing the Regen-Notes nature and health theme, the BBC reported on the German trend of waldeinsamkeit , an archaic German term for the feeling of “forest loneliness”. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I had to grapple with my love for my city at the same time as I witnessed the compounding effects of of an oil-based economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution? View on DocumentCloud.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

live within a mile of an oil or gas well — putting them at higher risk of health problems like heart disease, breathing issues, anxiety and depression, and complications during pregnancy , a growing body of research shows. It is, I think, gravely concerning how plugged wells may be adversely affecting health.”.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

Environmental justice activists and others from all over the nation were present. Rather, this blog will serve as a reflection by someone who was present for the event as an audience member, someone who was there to listen and learn. Richard Moore: Environmental Justice Health Alliance ; Los Jardines Institute.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

What is known presents many reasons for concern. Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. more than $900 billion in health expenses annually. They know that most of these compounds can leach into food and beverages, and that they cost the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Why should seven million people die every year because of pollution? At present the average Dane generates just over eight kilos of CO2 per day from food and drink consumption, amounting to around three tonnes per year, the government said. Bin Salman continued. hours are available.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

She conveyed the huge range of differences in quality of life and of human development indices present within the city, and how much wellbeing actually varies in the City of Angels. Linda Sobczynski is an environmental attorney whose presentation focused on marine plastic pollution, and her favorite marine invertebrate – the octopus.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The government has today unveiled its hotly-anticipated suite of legally-binding environmental targets for England, confirming a sweeping package of goals to reverse species loss, increase tree cover, reduce waste, and tackle air and water pollution over the next two decades. The target to increase tree and woodland cover to 16.5

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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. and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Thinking about climate, health, economy and biodiversity-loss and moving into a brighter future-less damaging for the earth and nature, and more sustainable for all of us!

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Related: This “super plant” can actually absorb air pollution Past scandals Let’s time travel back to the “diesel dupe” of 2015. But post-exam, it cranked up and spewed up to 40 times above the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants allowed by U.S. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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