Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Defra confirms new legal duty to be placed on water companies to reduce nutrient pollution by 2030, as it looks to ease planning barriers for new housing projects. These nutrients can speed up the growth of certain plants and have devastating impacts on natural habitats.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand the regulations and take steps to mitigate the impact the ban might have on their day-to-day activities. All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

Senate and hailed by Joe Biden as a key tool to tackle the climate crisis includes billions of dollars to support a supposedly clean fuel that is potentially even more polluting than coal, new research has found. But others are more upbeat about the use of hydrogen to help lower emissions in some stubbornly polluting sectors.

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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. The Government should work quickly to publish its package of targets, using this extra time to ensure they are as strong as possible. There were 372,533 sewage discharges in 2021 , polluting our waterways for 2,667,452 hours.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores. At least a million seabirds are killed annually by plastic pollution, while estimates suggest there are around 270,000 metric tonnes of plastic now clogging the world's ocean.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 25, 2024

Industrial emissions account for almost a quarter of the nation’s planet-heating pollution. It’s also widely considered the most difficult kind of climate pollution to prevent. Electrifying buildings and machinery can prevent pollution from oil, coal, and gas — but only if the power grid is revamped to run on clean energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

The move towards easier-to-recycle packaging formats seems well underway, but the issue of funding for waste and recycling is still up in the air, without the investment the EPR policy was intended to provide. A statement from the group said she was hopeful that “the damage done to any remaining ambition isn’t terminal”. The good news?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for England provides a legally-binding framework and updated package of environmental objectives to tackle water pollution from water companies, the agriculture sector, climate change, and population growth, according to the EA.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i] tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. Mars, maker of candies and food, has diverse packaging needs. We do not want to see this packaging released into nature.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

There will then be a vote in the Scottish Parliament, after which the scheme will become law. Aiming to tackle plastic pollution, increase recycling rates, improve recyclate quality and minimise litter, proposals have gained strong support from NGOs and the media. There is much to consider if the Scottish DRS is to be a success.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Campaigners accuse supermarkets of 'treading water' on plastic pollution, while pressure builds on MPs to accept amendmends to Environment Bill that would see the UK adopt legally-binding plastics reduction targets. Instead, we are looking at a relatively static picture which represents a drop in the ocean of tackling plastic pollution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

They were recently found in samples of plastic food packaging from around the world, and a study published last month linked them to 20 percent the United States’ preterm births. According to one 2022 study , more than 1,000 chemicals — including many EDCs — commonly used in packaging like takeout containers can migrate into food.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The European Commission has adopted two final pillars under its Fit for 55 legislative package, setting in place legally binding climate targets across sectors and prioritising the shift away from polluting vehicles as soon as possible. The final legislative package is expected to reduce EU net greenhouse gas emissions by 57% by 2030.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package. Gaping Gaps.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Around 47 per cent of all plastic produced is used in packaging, but a further 14 per cent is used in textiles and six per cent in transport. Plastic pollution poses a considerable, even though not yet fully understood, threat to the environment, species, and habitats, as well as to cultural heritage," he added.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Plans to make manufacturers pay full costs of recycling their packaging and develop consistent household collections nationwide unveiled. The government said it was seeking to add these further powers to its Environment Bill, which is expected complete its journey through Parliament to become law later this year after several delays.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Just about every package that’s delivered will at some stage travel along roads on the back of a van. The buses introduced not only relieve the capital’s dismal air pollution problems; they also offer commuters free USB charging points. Electric Vans. Electric Buses.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

These changes could allow the bank to lend money towards not only supporting some of the world's least developed countries, but increasingly also to highly-polluting middle-income locations, using climate vulnerability as a key consideration in its borrowing criteria, according to the news site.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law. On the other side are activists for environmental justice, the movement to reverse the historical trend of dumping pollution on poor people and Black and Hispanic communities.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Danone has been threatened with court action in France over its plastic packaging footprint by an NGO coalition led by ClientEarth, which claims the global food products giant "has never adopted adequate measures to address the harm related to its use of plastics".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials. “The

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2021

The scrubber system is a shortcut that has been introduced by ship companies that do not want to move away from toxic, sulfur-rich fuels but must abide by international air quality laws. View post: Cargo ships’ exhaust purification systems are polluting the oceans.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The oil industry’s lies are at the heart of the two most catastrophic pollution crises in human history.” If landfills didn’t placate the public, there was always incineration: “Recycle plastic packaging? Plastics “don’t biodegrade,” promised the head of the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), an industry group, in the 1970s.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. RWE is set to receive €2.6 billion; Leag will receive €1.75

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While countries have agreed to adding shipping to the EU ETS, the details of the legislation will need to be endorsed by member states before being passed into law. Smaller vessels would be exempt from the legislation, which is to apply on all ships above 5,000 gross tonnes.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. just below health, the economy and Brexit.

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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. Eco Friendly Distribution, Shipping and Packaging. EcoEnclose is a one stop shop for eco-friendly packaging and shipping solutions for all product shapes and sizes. Clean Energy. Consulting and Advisory.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Despite being the most common litter item for decades, cigarette butts have flown under the radar in the fight against plastic pollution and it is time to change this.”. Despite the fact that throwing a cigarette on the ground is against the law, the survey suggested that 1 in 3 smokers (32%) don’t realise it’s illegal to litter cigarettes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. The European Green Deal is our new growth strategy,” she said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere.

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