Charged

APRIL 29, 2021

years in 2002. If electrification is to have the desired effect on air pollution, it may not be enough to encourage the sale of EVs—policymakers need to consider strategies proactively scrap older vehicles, and/or to reduce Americans’ dependence on the automobile by expanding public transit options.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested 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”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Its current director Benny Peiser has claimed it is “extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis” and the group suggested in a 2015 report that carbon dioxide pollution is “a benefit to the planet”. million to the Conservative Party since 2002, including £257,400 in the last year.

Fossil fuels 143

Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Politics 143

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

The waste from maintenance and servicing activities contributes to the majority of pollutants found in effluents at rail depots, including diesel fuel oil, engine lubricant oil, hydrostatic and gearbox oils and detergent-based cleaners. Are there any legal implications surrounding the management of effluent?

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday confirmed service stations in Algeria ceased selling leaded petrol last month - the final country in the world where Tetraethyllead had still been available - officially drawing an end to the use of the highly toxic and polluting petrol additive worldwide.

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Health Fossil fuels Africa Pollution 95

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested 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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Hintze, who has donated more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, also donated £10,000 in August to leadership hopeful Priti Patel , who was voted out of the contest by Tory MPs this week. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lord Hintze, who has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, has said he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

Fossil fuels 139

Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Policy 139

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) requires employers to ensure that exposure is prevented or, where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled. Ideally, quarry site monitoring should be undertaken prior to the commencement of operations to establish baseline levels for that site.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

The GWPF was founded to contradict established climate science and has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. million since the 2019 general election from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 Misleading Ads The report pointed to widespread advertising campaigns that downplay the impacts of the animal agriculture industry.

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Agriculture Education Climate change Policy 145

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

Conflict minerals are associated with a number of issues including workers’ rights, pollution and the funding of armed conflicts. is an American technology company founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman. EthicalConsumer.org looks at several attributes when it scores camera brands. Does the brand score well for its conflict minerals policy?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002.

Fossil fuels 139

Fossil fuels Politics Global warming Policy 139

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Recent London Business School research concluded that cyber-risk more than quadrupled since 2002 – and tripled since 2013 whilst Scottish Business Resilience Centre states that in the fourth quarter of 2020, attacks utilising PowerShell grew by 208% while malware leveraging Microsoft Office increased by 199%.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 10, 2024

The Make Polluters Pay Campaign issued a press release warning that the deal could further consolidate the oil industry’s power and delay a transition to clean energy is urgently needed. Disclaimer: I worked for ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2008. Criticisms Critics of the deal immediately emerged.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Law Energy 60

Grist

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Getty Images This problem caught the attention of the Clinton Health Access Initiative , or CHAI — a nonprofit organization founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2002. ’” A second category of interventions amounts to various forms of subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

Fossil fuels 145

Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 145

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the past twenty years, the PROs in the WEEE Forum have collected, de-polluted, recycled or prepared for re-use more than 30 million tonnes of WEEE. The conference will also mark the 20th anniversary of EU Directive 2002/96/EC, the world’s first supranational (EPR) legislation on e-waste soon to be revised and updated.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. This place has been a catastrophe consistently.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. Unlike natural gas, which is comprised mostly of methane, a powerful climate pollutant, hydrogen does not emit planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

He recently critiqued policies such as Canada’s cap on oil and gas pollution as belonging to “a slew of costly, ineffective regulatory and subsidy schemes.” Coyne himself acknowledges climate change is real and has argued frequently over the years that the most efficient way to address it is through a national price on carbon emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

That effort led to the creation of another national nonprofit in 2002, the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA). Much of that work now informs national and state policy on energy resiliency in low-income communities and communities of color, including strategies to replace polluting peaker power plants with renewables and energy storage.

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Law Energy Energy Organic 76

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

The wheels are in motion for a global treaty on plastic pollution – what should financial institutions be doing to seize the opportunity from the changes that will come? Investors already doing the work are reaping the benefit, but to turn the tide on plastic waste and pollution, we must drive progress required at an even greater scale.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

Three researchers at Oxford University looked at the link between firms’ environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG) and GDP between 2002-2017. There is new evidence in support of green economic recovery policies. There are also several groups calling on the federal government to build back a green economy.

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Carbon-negative Climate change Policy Electric vehicle 64

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2022

The 2002 mango tree planting project funded by Coldplay gives a stark reminder of this fact. Benefit #2 : By putting a price on pollution, carbon offsetting works as a sort of green tax in that the true cost of a polluting activity is realized. Permanence : Forests are fragile ecosystems.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

The same trend has documented across much of Europe, as soaring sales for electric vehicles and low emission models are more than offset by increased demand for heavier and more polluting SUVs, which made up four in 10 of the UK's new car sales last year.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Demand 97

Grist

JULY 24, 2019

The emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has been devouring ash trees from the Midwest to Pennsylvania since 2002, and the brown marmorated stink bug, also from Asia, has eaten its way through orchards in 43 states to date. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology.

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Agriculture Asia Climate change Medicine 83

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It can contaminate the air, degrade soil quality and pollute water, among other effects. Since 2002, UNEP has helped governments phase out the substance. Related: Petaluma becomes first US city to ban new gas stations Studies later revealed that lead harmed both humans and the environment at large. Read more:Â .

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Fossil fuels Health Pollution Soil 28

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Described as the most in-depth survey of the British and Irish flora ever undertaken, Plant Atlas 2020 builds on two previous BSBI surveys undertaken in the 20th century - the first in 1962, based on data collected from 1950 to 1960, and the second in 2002, based on data collected from 1987 to 1999.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Agriculture 41

Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

The fashion industry has a pollution problem. But in an industry where the average number of times a garment is worn decreased by 36 percent from 2002 to 2017, garment recycling is a light of hope for many large fashion retailers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Critics also point out that CCUS involves storing the carbon produced by fossil fuels rather than switching to renewable energy sources, thus permitting polluters to keep profiting from oil and gas exploration.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2019

E-waste accumulates, threatening the environment with toxic pollution and contamination hazards. Established in 2002, WEEE Forum addresses broadscale e-waste management. Ecological repercussions accompany the heightened demand for electronics. Global estimates project 50 million tons of e-waste will be generated this year.

Waste 28

Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 28

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“For example, state guidelines for exposure to PFOA have decreased approximately three orders of magnitude from 7000 ng/L [nanograms per liter], set by Minnesota in 2002, to 8 ng/L, set by Michigan in 2020,” the study authors wrote. Several states have set their own limits. Via EcoWatch Lead image via Pexels.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

Subsidies and policies that facilitate the transition to cleaner heavy-duty vehicles are especially beneficial to EJ communities, as the link between diesel emissions and higher asthma rates for Black and Latino children in communities overburdened by pollution is well-established (AAFA 2005; Weir 2002).

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Electric vehicle Investment Electricity Carbon-negative 52

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2002 mango tree planting project funded by Coldplay gives a stark reminder of this fact. Benefit #2 : By putting a price on pollution, carbon offsetting works as a sort of green tax in that the true cost of a polluting activity is realized. Permanence : Forests are fragile ecosystems.

Carbon 60

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Ethics 60

Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

Since 2002, Natalie Pace has been touring the world and featuring the most sustainable businesses, farms, individuals, restaurants and homes in her blogs. The Dalai Lama Sounds the Alarms for Sustainability: 9 Tips that Save Thousands of Dollars Every Year: Who’s Got the Power , We’ve Got the Power: About H.R.H.

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