Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned. "As

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps. Food production has a hefty environmental price tag, accounting for 26 per cent of global emissions, 70 per cent of freshwater withdrawals, and using half of habitable land.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 14, 2020

<< As Earth Day turns 50, societies across the globe are responding to the acute danger of the novel coronavirus COVD-19. Our panel of experts will discuss how COVID-19 is impacting climate change and other social and economic systems the globe depends. Tag your posts with #WCSEarthDay so we can share with each other.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

The response among many American public officials and the public at large to the COVID -19 pandemic has, in many ways, paralleled the response to the climate crisis. And as with the climate crisis, this is no accident. And as with the climate crisis, this is no accident.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2020

From the climate crisis to the COVID -19 pandemic , this rejection of scientific authority has become a hallmark of and cultural signal among many in conservative circles. This phenomenon has been on recent display in Louisiana, where a clear anti-mask sentiment has emerged in the streets and online even as COVID -19 cases rise.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

But less than three months later, on March 23, Boris Johnson was ordering a national lockdown to try and stop that virus, by then known worldwide as COVID -19, from raging across the UK. This came 52 days after the chief medical officer of England had confirmed the nation’s first two cases.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2020

Petroleum products continue to fuel most of our vehicles while fouling our air, leaving some people more vulnerable to suffering severe impacts from respiratory illnesses like COVID -19. Transportation is also the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak , as the number of confirmed COVID -19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. economy more vulnerable during times of crisis. against the actions of other countries.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian , and is republished here as part of the Covering Climate Now partnership to strengthen the media's focus on the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. On the energy crisis. The current global energy crisis, driven by a gas supply crunch that has led toi siaring prices for gas and power, is a case in point.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Originally trailed at a 'mini-Budget' designed to tackle the looming economic crisis facing the UK, the statement went far further than taxation and other fiscal measures, setting out broader plans to streamline planning rules with the aim of boosting investment, housebuilding, and jobs. "The Today is day one of a new UK growth approach.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. electricity in 2020 , with coal plunging to just 19 percent of the energy mix, surpassed even by renewable energy sources’ 20 percent. In the U.S., 56% of new U.S. 37% was wind.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 30, 2023

Precious and Jill, who are local GABRIELAs, have also been put in danger by being terror-tagged for their years of organizing in the community and serving on the national councils of GABRIELA USA and BAYAN USA. Many of Front and Centered’s coalition members represent and serve immigrant communities in Washington State.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

Read time: 5 mins On Tuesday, May 5, several Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee hosted a virtual discussion calling out how far the Trump administration has gone to cater to fossil fuel interests during the COVID -19 crisis and how that favoritism affects average Americans. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2020 science denial is again a game changer, this time for Republican President Donald Trump, who has continued to downplay COVID -19’s seriousness, even after he was hospitalized for the disease which has killed more than 210,000 Americans.

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