Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. “We

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The energy produced by the company is currently classified as renewable under UK and EU law, based on the disputed argument that emissions from burning the wood will be recaptured by trees planted in their place. manufacturing plants. “The The jig is up for Drax,” Megan Corton Scott, a political campaigner at Greenpeace UK told DeSmog. “An

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce and have been frequent violators of state and federal laws. It’s a lot of lawbreaking.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Despite this, it is treated as a renewable energy source in UK and EU law, based on the disputed notion that new tree growth will replace any lost carbon emissions from wood used for fuel. Drax power station, which generates around 6 percent of the UK’s electricity, is in fact the single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the country.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

For years , the fossil fuel industry has maintained that the First Amendment protects its right to mislead the public about the climate crisis, but that criticism and protest of its operations violates the law. And Gibson Dunn increasingly seems to be the law firm the industry is looking to for help in these efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. A logging industry facility sits in a forest clearing in Vermont. Grainfill Creative.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

USIPA also attempts to establish in law that old, or misshapen trees should be used to make pellets, and suggests that companies should still be allowed to harvest wood from countries with national plans for timber and forest management deemed inadequate by the EU. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12. Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. Since then, Bali has announced a law banning single-use plastic, thanks in part to Melati’s efforts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. The government's annual report revealed that deforestation rose 22 per cent in the past year, depsite recent assurances from President Jair Bolsonaro that he would crack down on illegal logging.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 8, 2020

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs. Fish and Wildlife Services in Denver crushed six tons of illegal elephant ivory tusks.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

According to a 2019 Columbia Law School report , there have been hundreds of examples of the federal government censoring, hindering, or sidelining climate change science since Trump was inaugurated. Forest Service to expedite environmental reviews which will increase logging and oil development on public lands.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

"The Plan makes transformational and historic investments in clean transportation infrastructure, clean water infrastructure, universal broadband infrastructure, clean power infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, and resilience to the changing climate," it added. MEPs approve new EU Climate Law.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. To add insult to injury, Trump is using the pandemic to help polluters. In April Trump formally began to repeal the Clean Water Rule, that same month the EPA began allowing polluters to use COVID-19 as an excuse to stop monitoring and reporting on their pollution.

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