Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In many ways, EtO is a poster child for the ways that industry and regulators have, for decades , failed to effectively protect people from chemical safety hazards and health threats like cancer. Muller ranks in the top 25 schools where students’ long-term health is most at risk from toxic air pollution in the U.S.,

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

James High School before being drawn into the fight against heavy industry — and its public health and environmental impacts — in her home town alongside the Mississippi River. Lavigne got her start in the environmental movement after attending a school board meeting in 2015, where she met members of a local organization called H.E.L.P.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

ISO 14001 certification to establish an effective environmental management system The International Standards Organization (ISO) has developed over 18,500 international standards, and of high significance is ISO’s environmental management system standards titled ISO 14001 (for ISO 14001 certification). Who is ISO 14001 designed for?

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Now over 90% of homes are using LPG – almost the entire population of Indonesia since 2004. How does your organization facilitate LPG adoption? Rockall: Our organization brings together the LPG industry right across the world. Take Indonesia, for instance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Kill Zone” The first time Mayfield and many other Chester residents heard of Penn America Energy’s plans was in June 2022, when the regional public media organization WHYY revealed that the company had been shopping around plans to build an LNG terminal on Chester’s Delaware River waterfront since as early as 2016.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 30, 2023

Twenty years ago, we saw the same sort of moral panic over gay marriage, which ended up being used as a wedge issue during the 2004 presidential elections. They are a grassroots organization born out of the struggles, challenges, strength, and resilience of the QTPI community in the region, and they are a Front and Centered coalition member.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. After graduating, she hatched the idea to combine her experience in social work with her knowledge of engineering through GRID Alternatives, “an organization that could have real impact in low-income communities.”. Mack Robinson College of Business.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

T he UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that animal agriculture contributes to around 15% of greenhouse gas emissions of which 60% comes from cows getting consumers. The company went on to raise $570 million total in five rounds before being acquired by Walmart in August.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

T he UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that animal agriculture contributes to around 15% of greenhouse gas emissions of which 60% comes from cows getting consumers. The company went on to raise $570 million total in five rounds before being acquired by Walmart in August.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

“In the mind of the public, health and climate change represent different and separate realms of knowledge and concern,” laments the latest annual report on health and climate change published by the leading medical journal The Lancet earlier this year. has no major money pot for developing a climate and health workforce.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. As the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. The roof above your head can do a lot of good for the Earth below your feet.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? While it’s true that untreated raw milk is unsafe to drink, as a 2004 Kenyan government report found, Kenyan buyers overwhelmingly knew to boil their milk first, so the risk of disease spread was very low.

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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. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

The beginning of COVID-19 When the Chinese government first alerted the World Health Organization about the virus on December 31, 2019, a wet market in Wuhan was quickly identified as the likely source. Public health officials and partners are working hard to identify the source of COVID-19,” the CDC reported.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ conservation organization, the Sierra Club, acknowledged racist views held by founder, author and conservationist John Muir. Organize a screening of Earth Day related films. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” So we still want these issues to be addressed.”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ conservation organization, the Sierra Club, acknowledged racist views held by founder, author and conservationist John Muir. Organize a screening of Earth Day related films. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

We absolutely should be moving to establishing independence from fossil fuels, both for geopolitical and for public health and climate reasons,” said Luke Tonachel, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) clean vehicles and fuels group. “I That was a step in the wrong direction, efficiency advocates say. “We

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Predator and prey dynamics are complex: The calves may have died anyway from injury or disease, and their removal may reduce competition for food and resources, improving the herd’s overall health. Elsewhere in the state, removing 96 percent of black bears in 2003 and 2004, reducing hunting, and killing wolves boosted the number of moose.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Its purveyors escaped, through a judge’s decision, tougher scrutiny by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Confinement elevates the risk of detonation, as does contamination by organic material such as dirt, grain, or oil. It was left off a list of hazardous substances marked for special attention by the U.S.

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