DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses. The epicentre of the free market, the banking sector, has provided $673 billion in fossil fuel financing during the last year alone, and $1.7

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. We realized that we could estimate the health of the overall environment by using birds, as they are an indicator of biodiversity. Groundwater health, both in quality and quantity, is also greatly affected by vegetation.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. For these highest emitters, climate pollution from driving is second only to flying (which, on average, generates twice as many emissions).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Even the latest diesel engines emit dangerous levels of pollution. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is an EPHA member.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

Deepak Chopra is a bestselling author and the founder of the Chopra Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health and well-being, cultivating spiritual knowledge, expanding consciousness and promoting world peace to all members of the human family. About Deepak Chopra, M.D.:

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Pollution risk: Switchgears, which are devices that isolate faults, have traditionally been insulated with Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6). What’s worse is that most of these assets haven’t been digitized, providing no visibility into real-time asset health and lifecycle status. 

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. But Railroad Commission reports, such as one 2003 inspection , indicate that the waste is not always making it into the salt cavern, and rather Lotus “is only using the entire facility plant and decon facility for storage.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Study warns major polluters are the ‘new tobacco’ in sports sponsorship, counting 250 deals between high-carbon industries and industry. Sport is in the front line of the climate emergency but floats on a sea of sponsorship deals with the major polluters," said Andrew Simms, report co-author and co-director of the New Weather Institute. "It

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 31, 2020

OTTAWA — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the annual increase to the federal price on pollution: “Let’s be crystal clear: Canada’s price on pollution gives money back to Canadians in the form of a tax rebate. And yet the misinformation campaign continues.

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Sustainability Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Lockdown Reduces Air Pollution Up until the wildfires, there had been a welcome reduction in air pollution due to the COVID-19 lockdown. With more people staying home from school and work, pollution from cars and trucks was reduced, improving air quality for millions of people. What does this mean for residents’ health?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product," Brown-West noted at the time. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Landmark study estimates 15 per cent of worldwide deaths from Covid-19 may be attributable to long-term exposure to air pollution, demonstrating impact of fossil fuels on pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

No state agency has authority over how these wastewater pipelines are constructed, operated and monitored, not Pennsylvanias Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), or the states Public Utility Commission, and as a result there are no standards, says David Hess, who led DEP from 2001 to 2003.

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Grist

APRIL 9, 2020

Dirty air in the United States is linked to higher death rates from COVID-19, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard’s school of public health. is one of the world’s most dangerous invisible pollutants. Scientists found that people who lived in counties in with elevated levels of fine particulate matter known as PM 2.5

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

Air pollution impacts how the human body can fight infections and viruses - it is time for governments and businesses to recognise these risks. But one of the most important links could be the one right under (and up into) our noses: air pollution. SARS, outbreak of 2003. "[P]oor

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The European Commission should not be hiring lobby firms that have represented big polluters, he told DeSmog. In 2003, API partly funded a paper co-authored by Willie Soon , a Malaysian astrophysicist, claiming the climate has not changed in 2,000 years.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 31, 2020

OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the implications of President Trump’s weakening of shared vehicle emission regulations: “President Trump’s decision to dramatically weaken regulations for vehicle efficiency and pollution is reckless and misguided.

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