Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Former Un Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has added his voice to calls for more funding for efforts to tackle air pollution, as a new report today highlighted the "urgent need" for the world to take action to improve global air quality. Outdoor air pollution is responsible for over four million deaths every year.

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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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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Can India follow in China’s footsteps and bend the curve with its declared war on pollution? Latest data shows that political will and strong policies are needed to bring about air quality improvements.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Giving a clear steer as to the long-term direction of travel is a key principle for policy-makers in effectively using taxes to change behaviour.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

DeSmog investigation uncovers lobbying by some road and freight trade bodies that may have delayed and watered down local UK measures to tackle illegal levels of air pollution. Air pollution is a serious public health issue and tackling it is essential for the health of people in towns and cities across the country," she said. "Air

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Speakers at the meeting included the hardline Dutch organisation Farmers’ Defence Force (FDF), which hit out at EU environmental and trade policy. An event on the MCC Brussels website appears to corroborate this, inviting farmers to attend a protest on January 24 against “the EU’s overzealous green policies” followed by networking drinks.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. Policy & Politics. They’re in the crosshairs of the danger," she said. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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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. Why you ignore policy at your peril! Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. REGISTER. ?

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In its official climate policy position , the U.S. Yet the Chamber is currently working to eliminate one of the most effective climate and public health protections on the books in the United States. The Chamber’s position is bad for business, our health, and the planet. By Maren Taylor and Victoria Mills.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The American Chemistry Council is deathly afraid of effective policies that will actually reduce the production of plastics, because that means less chemicals to be sold to make plastics,” Enck said. We are in the belly of the beast, and our health is suffering from it,” said Jo Banner, a lifelong resident of St.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups of MPs and Lords which discuss issues and try to influence policy around a specific subject area. DeSmog can reveal that three APPGs received benefits in the past two years from think tanks whose funders or members include major polluters, including Shell and Equinor.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

has a long history of pioneering climate policies that are eventually adopted nationally or by other provinces, and with its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C. KEY FACTS Transportation is responsible for 42% of all climate pollution in B.C.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Outlining the new water strategy today, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey acknowledged "things need to change", and insisted that stronger regulatory action set out by the government would help push the water sector to reduce polluting activities. "I

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. When lobbying firms represent both the polluter and the people experiencing pollution, it represents a pretty clear conflict of interest,” he said. How can they do both effectively?” she said. “I

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Terra Infirma

JULY 31, 2023

A bit like building a cigarette factory as part of a public health drive, if you ask me. While CCS will almost certainly play a role in hitting Net Zero, creating pollution and then paying someone to collect and store it forever is incredibly inefficient – far better to avoid creating the problem in the first place.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies whose business depends on trucks, including shipping-dependent brands, large fleet operators and truck and engine manufacturers, the pressure to reduce emissions is especially urgent – given that pollution from medium and heavy-duty vehicles not only contributes to climate change but also causes serious harm to human health.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.". "To some of them, it sounds a little like a joke. They look at you and say, 'So my plants are going to taste like fish?'

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

With net zero and COP26 so high up the political and media agenda, the progress of the Environment Bill through parliament has become a bit of a backwater. Sadly though, the history of environmental policy is littered with examples of poor target-setting which in some cases has even done more harm than good.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties. ISDS mechanisms are also affecting fundamental human rights.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Such targets, it seems, have become the standard currency of modern policy making: no keynote speech, consultation document, or published strategy is complete without them. The 1956 Clean Air Act, much celebrated by contemporary air pollution lobbyists, didn't have any targets at all. It just banned things that caused air pollution.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. “In general, making climate action profitable is still being prioritized over pollution reduction and equity.” Of the $626.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Solar panels and other clean technologies slash energy and fuel bills for households, while minimising exposure to future energy price hikes and air pollution. But it does highlight how the way the costs and benefits associated with the transition are shared is a policy choice.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The data on air pollution impact is limited, especially for recently-implemented schemes. Dozens of local grassroots groups formed to oppose them, voicing concerns over poor implementation, lack of consultation, and feared exacerbation of existing economic and health inequalities. But these schemes also attracted fierce opposition.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

By Sarah Spengeman and Surili Patel, Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association. The vast majority of the pollution that damages human health is produced by burning fossil fuels to power our homes, cars, and businesses. But it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s that simple.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is considering a raft of new policy measures to tackle transport emissions in the capital, including proposals for new charges for motorists, following the publication of a new report today detailing the huge scale of the challenge if London is to deliver on its target of becoming a net zero city by 2030.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

With transportation responsible for 42 per cent of all climate pollution in the province, which is more than any other sector, B.C.’s has an impressive history of pioneering climate policies that are eventually adopted nationally or by other provinces, not unlike California in the U.S. One in five vehicles sold in B.C.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Priti Patel's latest attack on green policies makes little sense and offers no alternative vision for the future - it deserves to be rejected, line-by-line The attacks on the UK's climate policies are now coming thick and fast. There have been citizens assemblies, myriad policy consultations, and thousands of MPs' surgeries.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The first analysis from the Green Economy Coalition, which was launched today , studied 32 countries and found that two-thirds have no or minimal green recovery policies in place. The political class of 2021 are throwing us out of the COVID-19 frying pan and into the climate fire.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. The “Make Polluters Pay” campaign billboard in New York’s Time Square on September 18, 2023.

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