Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

New UK Best Available Techniques regime will aim to help curb industrial air pollution by adapting EU approach for British industries. The framework is part of the process of translating EU rules into UK law, with the government today promising to deliver higher standards than those imposed through the EU's own BAT framework.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s This funding also provides financial and technical assistance to farmers who wish to voluntarily adopt new practices that improve environmental outcomes such as soil health, water quality, water quantity and biodiversity.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Because environmental science encompasses a wide range of different subtopics including but not limited to geology, law, and even physics – a degree in this type of science can really give you a range of job opportunities to choose from.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Fulfill municipal by-law requirements. Soil-Based Green Wall Systems. Improve physical and mental health of residence. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads. Reduce stormwater run-off. Hydroponic Green Wall Systems.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

The OEP, designed to provide independent scrutiny and enforcement of the UK's environmental laws, became a legal entity when the Environment Act came into force last November. With the state of nature in freefall and our air, water and soil quality in peril, the OEP will have its work cut out.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. We have legislated through the Environment Act and will continue to improve our regulations and wildlife laws in line with our ambitious vision.". Far from it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Engineered Growth Media or soil that meets parameters of FLL*. Vegetation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They are coastal farmers in Senegal whose soil is being salinated by rising sea levels; they are maize and rice farmers in Nigeria facing extended dry spells and unpredictable rainfall; and they are fishers and pastoral farmers watching Lake Chad disappear before their eyes.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. Lawyers are required to act in the best interests of their client - reducing costs, minimising risk and avoiding liability.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most industries are required by law to treat their wastewaters. It can also be harmful to the soil, water systems, and the atmosphere. Supports the Economy: A lot of money is spent in addressing and preventing pollution. Benefits of Industrial Water Treatment.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Engineered Growth Media or soil that meets parameters of FLL*. Vegetation. . .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With advice from The Wildlife Trusts, earlier this year they reached an impressive 28 per cent of land helping nature to recover - the size of nearly 6,000 football pitches - benefitting soils, rivers, natural habitats and vital pollinating insects.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The EA also warned that the lack of moisture in soils led to significant agricultural impacts and reduced water availability for farmers this year, adding that winter refill of farm storage reservoirs may be constrained if there is below average rainfall this winter.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 24, 2020

Much of the PFAS contamination is legacy pollution. In fact, both Teflon and Scotchgard were phased out years ago, but these harmful PFAS still persist in the environment — in soils and especially in water , such as the rainwater that supplies drinking water. The most infamous PFAS are those associated with Teflon and 3M’s Scotchgard.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? REFERENCES. Thamo, T. & & Pannell, D.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human destruction of natural habitats on land and at sea, climate change, pollution, invasive species and over fishing and hunting are responsible for the loss of nature "at a rate never seen before", according to the latest edition of the long-running report, which provides one of the world's most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

It was the first major economy to put net zero in law by 2050 and it has also cut its existing emissions at the fastest rate in the G7 since 1990. degrees, the UK and our co-hosts, Italy, need to get agreement on cutting carbon from the biggest polluters by November, or the summit will have failed. That's no easy task.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

The Draft Scoping Plan indicates that these measures can increase soil water holding capacity while also reducing pesticide use. The Draft Scoping Plan notes that these strategies, along with reduced traffic pollution and other measures, can also provide significant health benefits to Californians.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I still remember a school lesson where the concept of polluting externalities and market failures were explained, before the class then quickly moved on to a curriculum which largely glossed over how almost everything we were being taught was basically broken by these unaccounted for external factors.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). Carbon sequestration. Natural capital. Nature-based solutions.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

As noted in a report published last month by the Endocrine Society and the nonprofit International Pollutants Elimination Network, or IPEN, exposure to endocrine-disrupting substances can occur throughout the plastic life cycle. A separate study from 2021 found that more than 2,000 chemicals can leach from a single plastic product into water.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The idea of ‘green fertilizers’ to market the company’s products as less polluting, however, is seen by some as corporate greenwashing. They added that the use of glyphosate can help reduce emissions from farming, by reducing the need for plowing the soil, a technique which can cause the soil to release greenhouse gases.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. We see particularly strong opportunities in increasing the affordability and availability of new mobility options for residents in low- to moderate-income communities, who often have the longest commutes and suffer the most from pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

He doesn’t think the agency should play a role in making a decision about it; he blames the Army Corps for what he describes as the mess at the mouth of the Mississippi River where there is rapid land loss and a growing deadzone where the river’s polluted river water enters the Gulf. Cooper said.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

pollution or on managing regulations and compliance. They typically define programs, products, processes and policies that reduce energy consumption, conserve water, minimize waste, encourage reuse of materials and reduce pollution output. A private business path will often have to balance purpose with profit. Environmental Geologist.

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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. Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Clean Energy. Sustainable Agriculture. Compost and Food Waste Recycling.

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