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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I have found a flaw," he said, in reference to his laissez faire economic philosophy and favouring of gossamer-touch regulation. "I There is something faintly ridiculous about any attempt to suggest clean air or forests or soils are worth £xbn a year, when without them civilisation is essentially doomed.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. Radium is commonly referred to as a bone seeker,” states a report of the National Research Council Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations. Credit: Marco Kaltofen.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. REFERENCES. Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. Thamo, T. & & Pannell, D. Richards, K.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

Apply for our next cohort here , refer a company to us here , or explore other opportunities to plug into Elemental Excelerator here. * * *. But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. Interested in working with us? California goals.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

OCD justified the change by saying the state had determined not all residents on the island identified as part of the Tribe, and that limiting the project to a specific tribe could be seen as contrary to HUD’s rules and federal anti-discrimination laws. That is why rain is collected under the homes as the soil is subsiding.”

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

An environmental consultant provides advice to companies and other organizations on a wide range of environmental issues such as green manufacturing, hazardous-waste remediation (disposal and cleanup), soil contamination, environmental disasters, sustainability initiatives, compliance, renewable energy and water, air, and soil quality.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

That’s what these people in these positions are paid to do”, she says, referring to trade associations such as the IMS and AAA. We just have too many animals,” Dragsdahl says, referring to Denmark’s colossal livestock population. For Jacquet, though, such promises are little more than reputation management.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These real health and environmental costs not currently included in the purchase price of fossil fuels are commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms. The change is required by law.

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AGreenLiving

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? That’s not all.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

He also references Prince William's comments earlier this week in an interview with the BBC during which the Queen's grandson criticised space tourism and billionaires going into orbit, rather than concentrating on tackling environmental crises on Earth. We only know about people who are not coming.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

A sign in Weyerhaeuser’s Seattle headquarters references what what business leaders see as their environmental legacy. After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. Dosimetry refers to the science of measuring the radiation dose absorbed by the human body.).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. The publication — aimed at an internal audience across Shell’s global operations — lacked any reference to climate change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

"What we're trying to accomplish as an organization is to build more resilient communities," Taylor said, "We want to be there, whether it's a disaster brought about by climate change or even human disasters" — a reference to the ongoing protests for racial justice and an end to police violence. . It also extends to climate justice. "The

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Disposing of the wastewater in this way often requires lengthy road trips in gas-guzzling trucks to reach injection wells — also referred to as saltwater disposal wells — where the waste is injected deep into the earth. These controversial facilities often encounter local opposition. and Geneva, Switzerland. “Is

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It has also undertaken lobbying to derail key EU-wide measures such as a nature restoration law which was only narrowly approved by EU lawmakers at the end of last year, full of loopholes. Like Copa-Cogeca the group has been an aggressive lobbyist against Europe’s green measures, referring to the Farm to Fork as a “degrowth strategy.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

. “What we’re trying to accomplish as an organization is to build more resilient communities,” Taylor said, “We want to be there, whether it’s a disaster brought about by climate change or even human disasters” — a reference to the ongoing protests for racial justice and an end to police violence.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

District Court of Nevada in February, Bartell alleges that the BLM broke the law when it approved the mine’s plan to operate on federal lands based on a “one sided, deeply flawed, and incomplete” environmental impact statement that downplayed the project’s likely effects on groundwater, streams, and a threatened species of trout.

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