Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So conclude researchers at Utrecht University, who have developed a new water quality model they say will better appraise the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. In addition to identifying hotspots of water quality issues, the model can help with attributing the source of pollution to particular sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

But it also marked the moment when air pollution’s harms were finally acknowledged, and efforts began to legislate against it. What’s maybe most surprising is that we lived with air pollution for so long before finally waking up to the recognition that it was harmful, in the 1950s. Monitoring milestone.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. The knowledge gap on soils affected by diffuse pollution and its impact on other environmental compartments is even greater.".

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

PUSH Buffalo is a nonprofit grassroots community organization working to build and execute a comprehensive revitalization plan for West Buffalo’s West Side. UPROSE is Brooklyn's foremost Latinx community organization. Panelists explained how their community organizations and business partners have successfully collaborated in the past.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

"There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. 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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In Biogas: Pathways to 2030, WBA details how deploying AD to capture and recycle the billion tonnes of organic wastes generated annually by human activity could play a major part in the fight against climate change. Today, only 2% of this organic matter is treated through AD and transformed into a green gas and a biofertiliser.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Bernard Parishes has run into a buzzsaw of opposition , as local fishing communities worry that the diversions will pour polluted Mississippi River water into the bay. How do they think they can dump all this polluted river water in there and not kill everything?”. The massive river diversions planned for Plaquemines and St.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The electricity produced by renewable resources is cleaner than the electricity produced by coal-fired power generation because it does not emit carbon into the atmosphere that causes global warming and pollution to Earth. Some technologies progress independently of political support. Business Analysis.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In that moment, Thomas founded Intersectional Environmentalist (IE), a mission-driven organization committed to dismantling systems of oppression by amplifying historically silenced voices in the environmental movement, along with co-founders Diandra Marizet, Philip Aiken and Sabs Katz. .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

“Those numbers say to me that he doesn’t believe we need to actually roll up our sleeves and work on climate change in a meaningful way,” said Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, a national labour organization that’s been supporting ongoing federal legislation to foster climate-friendly union jobs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). People can make a difference.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization's lofty statement has enduring impact. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

The other speaker, Shalanda Baker, runs an institute and teaches ways to organize around fair siting, pricing and regulating of solar. . In a discussion that tacked to the personal and political, Baker and Klee reviewed principles for renewable energy economics.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s certainly interesting — or telling — that he made a political donation to the leader of the official opposition,” Emilia Belliveau, energy transition program manager for the non-profit organization Environmental Defence, told DeSmog. She recently wrote a post detailing Pourbaix’s long history of climate obstruction.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden is putting climate progress front and center with bold and decisive executive actions that will begin his administration’s efforts to reduce climate pollution and put us on track to ensuring cleaner, healthier communities. Statement from Defend Our Future. The Defend Our Future Team. ###.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. Ayumi Fukakusa agrees. I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. Because urban forestry generally has a relatively low carbon removal impact, fewer organizations are focused on creating carbon credits for these projects. Jesse Klein.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

But it was canceled without explanation by conference organizers several weeks before it was due to begin. On the first day of the convention, attendance at strategic session speeches and those of the related hydrogen conference were so low that event organizers removed unused seating. Keith Shoemaker of EQT Corp.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The UN’s expert climate science organization has criticised the “vested interests” obstructing efforts to cut emissions for the first time this week. The review, which focuses on adaptation, said that despite scientific certainty around human-caused climate change, “vested economic and political interests” were delaying efforts to tackle it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The report comes four months after the two organizations announced a lawsuit against the company alleging Eni used “lobbying and greenwashing” to push for more oil and gas production, despite having known about the risks fossil fuels posed over the past 53 years.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Climate-washing frames climate litigation in a new way, and it may be useful to keep polluters in check in relation to climate goals.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Promoting sustainable agriculture The agricultural sector is a contributor to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. By adopting green practices, they can help address these issues both now and in the future.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, there is a growing need to develop and deploy a broader suite of solutions aimed at reducing pollution. This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The cultivation of cattle, palm oil, and soybeans in particular has led to depleted freshwater, widespread deforestation, and rampant extinctions, all of it underwritten by $700 billion in government subsidies each year that support unsustainable, polluting practices. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

On Wednesday, June 28, the climate conference convened in London as part of London Climate Action Week , hosted by the UK-based global event organizer Climate Action in partnership with the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. None of these companies want government policy and carbon regulations.” “We

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. So she got to it.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In September, the Chamber filed an Amicus Brief siding with the current administration’s attack on the bedrock authority of California and other states to protect millions of people from air pollution, by supporting sweeping preemption of state clean car standards. By 2040, this rollback will add more than 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 21, 2020

This event is organized by The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and it is open to the public. EST How will the new trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States address issues linked to increased commerce such as marine litter, sustainable trade in species, air pollution and more? to 5:00 p.m.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2021

Several organizations are planting trees in lower-income areas of the city, but it will be a while before saplings can provide shade. Lower-income families living near these extractive industries are more likely to suffer from asthma and other pollution -related health problems. Via NM Political Report Lead image via Pixabay.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Electric trucks provide an opportunity for organizations with fleets to fundamentally transform the environmental impact of their operations. Companies should have specific milestones to address the near-term health impacts their operations have on communities that have been historically overburdened with diesel pollution.

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Charged

JUNE 21, 2023

This sounds like the same old cynical strategy that most legacy automakers are pursuing—as polluting ICE vehicles are phased out in China and Europe, they hope to sell more in developing countries, while hyping hybrids as a cheap sop for North American buyers. The name may not quite work in English, but this is a positive development.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 27, 2021

According to a survey last year , 80% of Asian Americans consider the environment to be a very or extremely important political issue; 77% support stronger federal legislation to address the climate crisis. Compared to the general American population, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are overwhelmingly environmentalists.

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