Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. g/m 3 to 10 ?g/m

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Read time: 6 mins Four environmental groups sued Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) chief Andrew Wheeler last week, alleging that the agency stood by while Texas failed to enforce the nation’s federal environmental laws and adequately control air pollution in the state.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research seems to show. The theory is that the pollutants react with and change the scents of flowers, making them harder to find.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rules would require firms to report emissions, find and fix leaks, and limit wasteful venting and flaring The EU has struck a deal that will force the fossil fuel industry to rein in dangerous methane pollution. The measures include finding and fixing leaks, and limiting wasteful practices such as venting and flaring gas by 2027.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. Some studies estimate that, without aerosol pollution, the world might have already warmed by another half a degree Celsius. Clean Air Act.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 30, 2020

Businesses will not face any repercussions for polluting American air, land or water, as long as they can claim their practices are related to COVID-19.

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NRDC onEarth

APRIL 28, 2023

The legislation reverses over 150 years of legal precedent and lifts one of the few substantive requirements of America’s antiquated and regressive general mining law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Fracking for shale gas is a controversial practice that risks causing air, water, and noise pollution. The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 7, 2021

There is the problem of plastic pollution, climate change, the death of animals, insects, and flowers,… Read More How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment. The post How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment appeared first on Green Living Guy. There are so many environmental issues that seem to have no solution at all.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

According to Johnathan White, lawyer and expert on corporate climate accountability at environmental law charity ClientEarth, this is because sustainability communication has “gone through the roof,” especially over the past five years. That’s how PR strategies work.” What Constitutes Greenwashing? Greenwashing isn’t a new strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. While DLA Piper highlights its environmental credentials in the announcement, the international law firm — whose global revenue last year was over £1.5

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

While flue gas is used across various industries, from petrochemical to manufacturing, power generation, and automobile industries, governments have erected environmental laws to ensure the production and distribution processes are safe for the environment. Even in themselves, flue gas impurities cause air pollution.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The push for domestic laws to punish haze-causing companies comes days after a spat between Malaysia and Indonesia over the origin of severe air pollution in Sarawak linked to burning peatlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Reducing the reliance of water companies on storm overflows is important to help cut pollution in waterways, and earlier this year the Government announced it was working with Philip Dunne MP on shared ambitions to tackle high levels of sewage in UK rivers, following the introduction of his Private Member’s Bill in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Scientists have only realised more recently that they create persistent pollution problems. The impact on EMR’s operations is – in some ways – profound.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The new law will require oil producers to monitor their preproduction and beginning stages of production in the state much more strictly. This new law is thought to be the first of its kind for the US. The Air Commision plans to monitor Methane, Benzene, and other pollutants. This may not be the end of law changes.

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NRDC onEarth

JULY 31, 2023

The law will target the emissions and other air pollution that come through people’s windows from nearby pizza restaurants.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With five-year milestones, progress reports that are made public, and an independent advisory panel to offer expert advice, this law will help ensure all sectors are on track toward a net-zero future. “We The post Turning action into law: government’s accountability legislation a critical step appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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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

MAY 31, 2023

In recent months, concerns about nutrient pollution from intensive chicken units, livestock farming and from sewage have escalated on both sides of the Welsh-English border, with phosphate and other pollutants fuelling algal blooms that turn the river into ‘pea soup’.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2023

Government announces plan to put targets to reduce storm overflows on a legal footing, as MPs block Labour's rival bill for tackling water pollution crisis

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government could yet again find itself in court over dangerous levels of air pollution, with the latest official data showing the UK is on track to miss legal targets for four out of five pollutants covered by a crucial piece of clean air legislation, ClientEarth has warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

River conservation groups reacted with alarm to the news (on 29 August) that the government plans to ease restrictions on developers’ need to ensure the nutrient neutrality (NN) of their projects, in a bid to unblock house building “held up due to defective EU laws”. The complexity of the issue is explored in this article.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Several US states passed laws to control the concentration of 1,4-dioxane as a product ingredient. The new laws did not yet affect wastewater concentrations, but it seems a foregone conclusion that this would happen. Our Ellenox system uses electrochemical oxidation to mineralise organic pollutants.

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GreenBiz

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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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 30, 2020

British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to save thousands of dollars on fuel and maintenance costs while also cutting pollution—a win-win for all of us. These laws will help supply keep pace with demand, while sending a clear signal to the market that B.C. “That’s why the rules put in place today are vital.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the Marine Conservation Society , Richard Haward’s Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm as they argue that the Government’s strategy is inadequate, allowing water companies to pollute waters and beaches for another 27 years. This hearing is a huge moment for the future of our rivers and seas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2019

government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution. Not only do electric cars help cut pollution and clean up the air we breathe, in B.C.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Water company sentenced for polluting a watercourse in Bradford with unauthorised sewage discharges in 2018. for polluting a Bradford watercourse and breaching environmental law following a successful prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.6m On top of the £1.6m

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