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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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

New UK Best Available Techniques regime will aim to help curb industrial air pollution by adapting EU approach for British industries. The framework is part of the process of translating EU rules into UK law, with the government today promising to deliver higher standards than those imposed through the EU's own BAT framework.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Improve physical and mental health of residence. Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Fulfill municipal by-law requirements. Soil-Based Green Wall Systems. Increase connectivity to natural environment. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.". "We Far from it.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

The Draft Scoping Plan anticipates that these activities will restore health and resilience to overstocked forests, prevent carbon losses from severe wildfire, reduce health costs related to wildfire emissions, and improve water quantity and quality. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 24, 2020

Much of the PFAS contamination is legacy pollution. In fact, both Teflon and Scotchgard were phased out years ago, but these harmful PFAS still persist in the environment — in soils and especially in water , such as the rainwater that supplies drinking water. The most infamous PFAS are those associated with Teflon and 3M’s Scotchgard.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

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. Because so many plastics and petrochemical products are traded internationally, some endocrinologists and public health authorities believe a global approach is needed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human destruction of natural habitats on land and at sea, climate change, pollution, invasive species and over fishing and hunting are responsible for the loss of nature "at a rate never seen before", according to the latest edition of the long-running report, which provides one of the world's most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is a long overdue and highly welcome ambition - although perhaps not entirely surprising given the government now has 13 legally binding environmental targets and a suite of interim goals to meet over the coming decade and beyond, covering areas such as air pollution, water quality, biodiversity, woodland cover, and waste reduction.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

pollution or on managing regulations and compliance. They typically define programs, products, processes and policies that reduce energy consumption, conserve water, minimize waste, encourage reuse of materials and reduce pollution output. A private business path will often have to balance purpose with profit. Environmental Geologist.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study , and pose a global health crisis , with plastic chemicals linked to preterm births , heart attacks , and cancer. Pollution had pushed its way into the national conversation. The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

Advocacy by Front and Centered, our members, and allies helped create this Task Force during the 2019 Legislative Session in order to develop strategies that address environmental health disparities with guidance from the communities most impacted by pollution. Prioritizing Investments in Impacted Communities.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

pollution or on managing regulations and compliance. They typically define programs, products, processes and policies that reduce energy consumption, conserve water, minimize waste, encourage reuse of materials and reduce pollution output. A private business path will often have to balance purpose with profit. Environmental Geologist.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Clean Energy. Sustainable Agriculture. Compost and Food Waste Recycling.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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Grist

AUGUST 24, 2022

Here’s your good news for the day: so-called “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, cancer-causing pollutants found in everything from drinking water to polar bears , may not be forever. States have taken battles to the courthouse and statehouse to tackle their contaminated water and soil.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act is now law and providing the food sector a whole new world of possibilities. As I am sure you've read on every website that ever existed, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law Tuesday afternoon. How does that affect the future of food production in the United States?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. This legislation has already been significantly weakened. Here nothing is happening regarding the climate catastrophe.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The majority of these bags had been ripped open, allowing small pieces of plastic to escape, and in some cases plastic waste been covered in soil with more plastic dumped on top, it added. The impacts of plastic waste exports on human health and the environment are disproportionately felt by communities of colour. "We

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? Initiative: Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We are still seeing too much pollution from sources we have known about for years: sewage, farming, industry and road-run off. The good news is that: • There are now far fewer serious pollution incidents damaging our waters than three decades ago. More fundamentally, the EA is not responsible for the pollution in our waters.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. How will they be enforced and governed?

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”.

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