AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2020

Some climate experts are hypothesizing that living in areas with high air pollution could make cases of COVID-19 worse. Chan School of Public Health, told the Washington Post. Because no large-scale studies have been done to connect air pollution with the virus, Bernstein’s view is still a hypothesis.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What is purported to be the first global map of cargo ship pollution has revealed interesting effects including the apparent impact of fuel regulations. The new study used satellite data from 2003 – 2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. Navigating a sea of data. Disappearing act.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health. A car park installation.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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