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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

New analysis suggests three million working days a year are lost to air pollution. The research, conducted by CBI Economics and funded by the Clean Air Fund, suggests three million working days a year are currently lost due to the impact of air pollution on public health.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The Green Deal is the first political act from the new European Commission, which was confirmed last month and serves as the European Union's executive branch. Within 100 days, the Commission will present a new Climate Law designed to lock in the continent’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Unlike natural gas, which is comprised mostly of methane, a powerful climate pollutant, hydrogen does not emit planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. This is not a ‘champagne grid’, but a ‘core grid’ — an enormous transport grid for hydrogen,” she said. But much depends on the way the hydrogen is made.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The team will be headed by Ed Miliband, following the surprise return to frontline politics for the former Labour leader and Energy and Climate Change Secretary. In the UK our polluted air contributes to over 40,000 premature deaths a year and poisons our environment, with greatest impact on children's health and people in poorer communities.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Further, the shipping industry responsible for transporting seafood near and far has a higher rate of pollution than all but five countries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

A report published by the UN in July found that at least $10bn-worth of gold, platinum and other valuable and critical metals are dumped every year in the growing mountain of electronic waste - also known as e-waste -= that is polluting the planet. The cost is just as great, if not greater, from an environmental perspective too.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titled Local Edge: An Inquiry Into Climate Politics and The Economics of Recovery , the report argues that there is an urgent need to deliver emission reduction solutions at a local level in three crucial areas: heat energy and buildings; food, land use, and nature; and transport and air quality.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Now is the time for strong, decisive and progressive policy and leadership."

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AGreenLiving

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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

FPP’s goal is to ensure these communities have a voice when it comes to political strong-arming that strips them of their lands and their rights to them. ‘Self Determination’ supports forest people’s rights to develop and practice their own political, economic, social and cultural practices.

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AGreenLiving

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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target?

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Experts agree that to get to net zero emissions inside just three decades will require immediate and far-reaching action to cut emissions simultaneously across transport, industry, housing, agriculture, and energy.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings. Political will. That’s begun in Cascadia. It’s a very aggressive scenario.”. Jay Inslee.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

The report suggests political leaders do not have the data they need to assess the scale of waste crime in England and that enforcement agencies have made limited progress in cracking down on rising levels of waste crime. Aside from being unsightly and polluting, it costs the economy almost £1bn a year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

When climate and nature objectives collide At first blush, the Albanian government's move to block new energy development in the midst of an energy crisis looks like a political minefield. Such habitats are also economically crucial, providing water for agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and transport.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Yet at the very same time, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was on the radio yesterday morning defending reports that Air Passenger Duty (APD) is due to be slashed for domestic flights, in a bid to encourage travel by plane within the British Isles.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

As such over 85 per cent of respondents said they felt that businesses with a strong commitment to sustainability should be prioritised for post-COVID government support, while investment should be primarily directed at the transport and logistics, manufacturing, and construction sectors where significant emissions reductions can be unlocked.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Australia's biggest polluters to face binding 2030 carbon targets. The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. US unveils 'landmark' transport decarbonisation strategy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. Ships larger than 5,000 gross tons must calculate their CO2 emissions per unit of nominal transport work (e.g.,

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

To this end, the IPCC has recommended governments urgently press ahead with policies, laws, and strategies that drive near-term climate action, while working with the private sector to unlock funds that can help tackle climate change. There is a clearly a major business opportunity to be seized in developing climate solutions and services.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

It really shows us there was a negotiation between the city officials and Zenith taking place at the site of a major industrial polluter, which orchestrated their next LUCS approval, and it was clearly discussed at that meeting. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. Commissioner Ryan’s office did not respond.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Piles of plastic waste, not a single English river clean enough to swim in, insects facing population collapse, land mismanagement leading to fires and floods , air pollution harming children's health - barely a week goes by without more dire ecological news. Never before in living memory has the future of the natural world faced such crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Government claims that those producing pollution should bear the cost of managing it. This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. This unaddressed inequality needs transparency and political accountability.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on. The Costa Rican government has prioritized sustainability through the enactment of green policies and laws. Sustainability policies established.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

He also is the co-founder and managing director of Our Hawaiʻi, which is building a multi-generational, multiracial, indigenous-led political movement for Hawaiʻi that puts local working families first.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

From a resource depletion perspective, orbital space can be thought of as an environment that is getting polluted by debris creation events. Source: European Space Agency The problem with this pollution is that not all debris is trackable. Lab-simulated hypervelocity impact. NASA’s Atlantis space shuttle on its 19th mission to the ISS.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Both local and national reporting indicate that the Navigator pipeline proposal attracted the attention of diverse groups of citizens often portrayed as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Using wind power would also use 1/400,000 of the land footprint, and would lower air pollution levels, too. Navigator’s $3.5

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