CleanTech Focus

Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products. When we throw things away, they end up in landfill or incinerators, which then contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

Recycling

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste

NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health. Tags: environmental racism racism environmental justice Misinformation fossil fuel companies

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Pollution Health

How U.S. Crude Oil Exports Are Hastening the Demise of the Oil Industry

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2021

However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has helped hasten the financial demise of the U.S. Tags: crude oil export ban fracking Read time: 12 mins When Congress lifted the export ban on U.S. crude oil in December of 2015 to allow for exports beginning in 2016, the oil industry celebrated.

Climate change

EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.

Natural gas

Natural gas Methane

Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. This project involves collecting data relating to the weight and make-up of collected waste and will have no impact on bin collection services.

Recycling

Recycling Recycling Technology Waste

Electric Utilities Are Slow to Address the Climate Crisis, Reports Indicate

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 10 mins The electric utility sector is largely lagging when it comes to responding to the climate emergency, both in terms of rapidly slashing globe-warming emissions and planning for climate impacts like increasingly extreme weather.

Electricity

Electricity Law Climate change Policy

‘Fossil Fuel Companies Knew’: Honolulu Files Lawsuit Over Climate Impacts

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2020

On Monday the City of Honolulu filed a lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies, seeking monetary damages to help pay for costs associated with climate impacts like sea level rise and flooding. Tags: Honolulu Hawaii climate liability Manufacturers' Accountability Project

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Sea level rise

'The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Terrified': Gas Company Sues to Destroy Small Town's Rights of Nature Law

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Law Energy Energy

Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its 'Deceptive Actions'

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Read time: 5 mins New Jersey has now joined the wave of lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate impacts. The lawsuit seeks to recover costs associated with climate impacts like extreme flooding and sea level rise.

Sea level rise

Sea level rise Fossil fuels Policy

In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2020

Tags: financial impacts of climate change Senator Sheldon Whitehouse green swan events subprime mortgage scandal With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday that there is high risk for an even larger economic crisis absent urgent climate policy.

Climate change

Climate change Policy

Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Tags: extreme heat Climate Impact Lab infectious diseases Exxon Knew American Petroleum Institute Extreme heat is among the deadliest consequences of global warming, and a new study tallies just how deadly it could become if climate pollution continues unabated.

Climate change

Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels Pollution

Error by Mining Giant Anglo American Undermines its Promise of No Glacier Impacts for $3bn Chilean Copper Project

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2020

According to Anglo American’s Environmental Impact Study (Spanish) released in July 2019, the first of six central design criteria for its Los Bronces underground mine expansion is avoiding impact to nearby glaciers, a critical freshwater supply already threatened by the climate crisis.

How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s natural to follow the people impacted by all this: the local residents, usually in poorer neighborhoods, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost; the farmers and ranchers whose crops and livestock are withering and dying; the stranded travelers and the evacuees seeking shelter amid the chaos. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S.

Climate change

Climate change Organic Sustainability Politics

COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 New Mexico Permian Basin fracking industry fracking health impacts coronavirus They have wondered what effect the industrial pollution might have on them and their son and daughter — even more so now with the COVID -19 pandemic — but with no money to pick up and relocate, they have remained in their home. .

Health

Health Pollution

State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The major pipelines studied in the report disproportionately impact historically disenfranchised communities who, in turn find themselves potentially targeted by the protest criminalization measures, often framed as efforts to protect “critical infrastructure,” the report details.

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Law Policy Energy

Why are hydrogen fuel cells so expensive?

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

That decarbonization impact only grows when green H2 is used, meaning that it is produced using processes powered by renewable energy such as wind and solar. That That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fossil fuels Natural gas Health

Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 17, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Oil companies have long been aware that their products cause global warming and the impacts, including from rising seas, could be catastrophic. Tags: sea level rise coastal flooding #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil shell #ShellKnew climate lawsuits

Sea level rise

Sea level rise Global warming Fossil fuels Climate change

From the BP Spill to a Disappearing Island: A Decade of Covering Climate and the Environment in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The state's role in the oil and gas industry impacts both global markets and global climate change. It’s also on the front line of climate change impacts due to sea level rise and is vulnerable to storm systems intensified by global warming. Tags: BP oil disaster Isle de Jean Charles Louisiana cancer alley

Sea level rise

Sea level rise Global warming Climate change Health

Washington State Considers Climate Impact of Major Petrochemical Plant With 'Pattern of Influence Peddling'

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility is highly controversial and would have an enormous greenhouse gas impact, but NWIW has lined up powerful figures in the State of Washington to help make the company’s case. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Natural gas Asia Plastics

New Documents Reveal Exxon-owned Canadian Oil Giant's Shifting Climate Change PR

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The present trend in legislation will require substantial expenditures to reduce emissions and waste discharge for all facilities and reduce the impact on the environment of the products we sell.”. Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline

Climate change

Climate change Earth Day Waste Waste

Oil Industry’s Shift to Plastics in Question as Report Warns $400 Billion in Stranded Assets Possible

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The atoll is exceedingly difficult to visit, not only because it’s so remote, but also because new arrivals must contend with a $225 per-visitor daily environmental impact fee — as well as piracy in the region. Tags: fracking plastic Fracking Plastics

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste

How To Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly

The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While the vast majority of environmental damage is done by massive corporations and world governments, rather than little old you, it’s important to remember that collective action can have an impact on helping the world become more environmentally friendly. Let’s find out! Insulate Your Home. Prioritise Energy Efficiency.

Agriculture

Agriculture Energy Energy Waste

Engaging Students in Energy Conservation

Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The impact on the district’s ROI from its energy upgrades has been significant. link] entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Environmental Literacy , Solar Energy , Student Engagement. As a step toward this transformation, Stockton Unified School District has engaged students as energy monitors.

Energy Monitor

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor HVAC

With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

in the wrong direction to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change. Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc ethane Beaver County Pennsylvania petrochemical development Fracking Plastics america coal pennsylvania

Natural gas

Natural gas Plastics Fossil fuels Climate change

Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2019

More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. Tags: Physicians for Social Responsibility fracking Dr. Sandra Steingraber public health Read time: 7 mins By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.

Health

Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms — ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live. Corporate Strategy. Employee Engagement.

Organic

Organic Sustainability Upcycling Logging

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Investment

Irish LNG Plan That Would Allow US Fracked Gas Imports ‘Dead in the Water’

DeSmogBlog

MAY 4, 2020

First, the European Court of Justice advocate general, Juliane Kokott , ruled that An Bord Pleanála, Ireland’s planning appeals body, erred in not requesting an up-to-date environmental impact study for the proposed Shannon LNG terminal before extending planning permission for a planned project.

Natural gas

Natural gas Politics

EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

They are also unable to produce power at night or in inclement weather and have a hefty price tag, especially considering the charging rates. Through primary interviews and technical analysis, IDTechEx appraises solar canopies and the various key players in this burgeoning industry.

Energy Monitor

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electric vehicle

Fossil Fuel Companies Keep Getting Sued Over Climate Impacts. Here’s Where the Cases Stand

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins September saw a flurry of new lawsuits filed by cities and states against major fossil fuel companies over the climate crisis and the resulting impacts that are already being felt. Tags: climate lawsuits ExxonMobil chevron Baltimore Supreme Court American Petroleum Institute ExxonKnew

Fossil fuels

EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. Interested parties should be able to access information relating to raw materials, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and recycling options.

Law

Law Plastics Packaging Recycling

After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Read time: 13 mins As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. Today's climate impacts have been shaped heavily by actions taken during the last 10 years, particularly in the U.S., Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling

Natural gas

Natural gas Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon

Fossil Fuel Companies and Their Supporters Ask Supreme Court to Intervene in Climate Lawsuits

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

Read time: 11 mins California communities last month got an important procedural win in their efforts to get fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-related impacts. Tags: climate liability U.S. Supreme Court Manufacturers Accountability Project FTI Consulting Energy In Depth chris horner

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Energy Energy

As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

Global warming

Global warming Fossil fuels Climate change

Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2020

While activism is currently on hold during the pandemic, impacts on oil prices abound. Tags: oil by rail Bomb Trains Canadian oil by rail BNSF The latest numbers show that U.S. oil-by-rail volumes are down 11% vs. where they were a year ago, which is likely just the beginning of the decline in volumes.

Demand

Former Tesla exec launches electric boat manufacturing firm in Florida

Charged

JANUARY 4, 2023

The R30, which is expected to carry a price tag around $300,000, is very much a luxury boat, but it sounds like more mass-market models are planned for the future. “To To really impact the environment, you can’t build electric boats by the dozens,” he told Electrek. “It It has to be by the thousands.”.

Electricity

Electricity Batteries Innovation Cooling

The Brief: BALLE’s common future, de-risking digesters, bamboo diapers, new gender-lens funds

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Just follow @ImpactAlpha on Instagram, then comment and tag two friends. Free passes. ImpactAlpha is giving away two tickets to SOCAP19 in San Francisco, Oct. There’s still time to enter. Winners will be announced Friday, October 18th and are responsible for their own transportation and other expenses.

Transportation

Comment: Yes, Scientists Say we Need to Plant Trees and Eat Less Meat ?— But Not as a Replacement for Cutting Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2019

In particular, the report’s conclusions on just how much our current food system threatens the climate, as well as how much climate impacts threaten our food supply, need a huge and sustained conversation. Tags: intergovernmental panel on climate change land use planning meat bioenergy negative emissions

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Climate change Sustainability

El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion

Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. By the end of the century, El Niño cycles may spur a whopping $84 trillion in economic losses. trillion and $5.7 trillion in 2017 dollars, respectively.

South America

South America Climate change Asia Cooling

Revealed: Anglo American Mine Expansion Could Put Chile's Glaciers and Emissions Goals At Risk

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If it goes ahead, “they would be failing to consider the impact on the global climate system, and risking Chile's commitments for its protection.”. Tags: Anglo American Chile COP25 Carolina Schmidt

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2020

Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 oil and gas pipelines Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer TigerSwan Mariner East Keystone XL

Organic

Organic Demand Energy Energy

The best packaging options for sustainable companies

The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In terms of industrial impacts on the environment, one of the biggest culprits is the packaging material and accessories that tag along with products. We all know how important and urgent it is to reduce our environmental impact. Many businesses are switching to more sustainable ways of doing business.

Packaging

Packaging Sustainability Plastics Recycling

Game on: New study shows which sports teams have the greenest fans

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It developed the sustainability-minded audience by capturing a list of terms that someone interested in sustainability may use in their Twitter bio, or by tagging accounts that a climate activist may follow. To reach these rankings, Zoomph’s platform started with about 342 million anonymized profiles.

Sustainability

Sustainability Health Technology

Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities

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Washington State Considers Climate Impact of Major Petrochemical Plant With 'Pattern of Influence Peddling'

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