Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Five people dying prematurely every week – 260 for the year as a result of two most harmful forms of air pollution, PM2.5 The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. pollution than Liverpool City and Greater Manchester, but a lower death rate and a smaller population.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

The group’s intervention comes as new data shows that, although Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations decreased marginally between 2021 and 2022, air pollution remains at illegal and unsafe levels in areas across the country. Post-pandemic progress on air pollution reduction nationally is now plateauing. ”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The firms were then featured prominently on panels alongside these cabinet ministers, MPs, and local political leaders. The corporate sponsors of the conference spoke alongside these political leaders, and a spokesperson for Atkins admitted that its “sponsorship package included panel speaker slots”.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Introduction Yemen, a country plagued by civil war and political instability, is facing an environmental crisis that threatens its very existence. While the devastating war has garnered international attention, the long-term environmental catastrophe has largely been ignored.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. But to my mind, this is not an argument for not increasing taxes on polluting activity. This is not a new idea, but it is one whose time has come.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Farmer, Mr John Price of Day House Farm, Kingsland, was charged with a number of offences, including failing to stop agricultural pollution from entering the river and removing trees and vegetation from the banks, and re-profiling river banks; and carrying out work without consents in November 2020 and December 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the power sector.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

It’s similarly surprising because public opinion points to climate action as a political winner. Liberals that introduced North America’s first price on pollution), but while climate makes some prominent appearances in the NDP and Green platforms, the Liberal plan fails to meaningfully connect climate to its central planks—or B.C.’s

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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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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition. No decisions have been taken on the expansion of the scheme.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2022

England’s Environment Agency doesn’t have enough money to investigate low-impact pollution incidents. The obscenity is that the Environment Agency has reduced its own staff to nothing more than political pawns in a cheap game of Whitehall politics,” rivers campaigner Feargal Sharkey told The Guardian.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Former Un Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has added his voice to calls for more funding for efforts to tackle air pollution, as a new report today highlighted the "urgent need" for the world to take action to improve global air quality. Outdoor air pollution is responsible for over four million deaths every year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Nutrient pollution can lead to the growth of harmful algal blooms such as cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae, pictured (image credit: UKCEH). Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.” We need political leaders who will shoot for the moon in tackling the existential challenges we face, not bury their heads in the sand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amid soaring energy, food, and living costs, he warned the world now faced rising inequalities, declining political trust, and worsening climate impacts that have left economies facing "rough seas". "A And it includes the massive public relations machine tanking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides. The carbon price – or carbon tax, depending on where you sit in Parliament – was always going to be challenging to communicate and was always going to have political enemies.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. The post Politics and You ! REGISTER. ?

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

DeSmog investigation uncovers lobbying by some road and freight trade bodies that may have delayed and watered down local UK measures to tackle illegal levels of air pollution. Air pollution is a serious public health issue and tackling it is essential for the health of people in towns and cities across the country," she said.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Political and business leaders, educators, and the news media endlessly talk about “carbon.” ” Newscasters repeatedly warn about “carbon emissions” and “carbon pollution.” Originally published in Master Resource. ” States and provinces announce “zero carbon” goals.

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Energy Central

JUNE 2, 2022

What they don’t admit is that through these actions they are aiding and abetting pollution leading to 1 in 6. We, therefore, by necessity need to continue relying on fossil fuels being extracted, processed, transported, and burned.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Can India follow in China’s footsteps and bend the curve with its declared war on pollution? Latest data shows that political will and strong policies are needed to bring about air quality improvements.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

The new Tyre Extinguishers' group is targetting fuel-hungry vehicles in bid to highlight their outsized contribution to urban air pollution and the climate crisis. The leaflets seek to highlight how SUVs are disproportionately polluting and dangerous for other road users compared to other cars. It's time for action.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has claimed that it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Joint declaration calls for more state support to catalyse the switch to active travel, public transport, and zero emission vehicles.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Indian government is moving to a new transboundary way of dealing with air pollution that recognises the problem does not respect political borders.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are bold commitments that demonstrate the UK can take the lead on issues of environmental protection. But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Outlining the new water strategy today, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey acknowledged "things need to change", and insisted that stronger regulatory action set out by the government would help push the water sector to reduce polluting activities. "I

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally. The long-term goal is to reach net-zero greenhouse gas pollution globally by the middle of the century. The United Nations’ polite prose glosses over what is a truly damning report card for global climate efforts.” Carbon emissions?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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