Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The bigger picture The single-use plastics ban follows the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007, which are expected to be extended, and the introduction of the Plastic Packaging Tax in April 2022. All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The research was limited to the primary pollutant in each of the three biggest classes of solar panel today: crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). The pollutants were lead, cadmium and selenium, respectively.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Landfill pollution – Plastic shrink-wrap, bottles, packaging and materials are not being properly recycled and disposed of. Water pollution – Garbage, wood waste, fuels and other non-biodegradable products are being dumped into waterways for convenience polluting our water systems and oceans.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The UK-based company topped the annual ‘F-List’ documenting the creative and public relations industry’s work for polluting industries, with 55 fossil fuel contracts. So far, most holding companies, agencies and industry bodies have rejected the concept of ‘advertised emissions’, playing down the need to cut ties with polluting industries.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. When lobbying firms represent both the polluter and the people experiencing pollution, it represents a pretty clear conflict of interest,” he said.

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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 from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

While that might seem like a no-brainer to some, it’s a finding that could have big implications for lawsuits seeking to hold polluters accountable for disaster damages. Left: A young boy in Kivalina, Alaska, watches workers fill sandbags for a sea wall in 2007.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Their farm, once part of the Loring Air Force Base, is also a Superfund site — an area so polluted it’s marked high-priority for federal cleanup. In 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency deemed it ready for reuse, albeit with limits due to contamination that persists at the site.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The report also highlights how in developed markets demand for fossil fuels for electricity generation has already fallen 20 per cent since its 2007 peak, and every country except two have now reached peak fossil fuel demand for electricity.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. But, because of the various pollution issues associated with coal, most developed countries have moved away from coal-fired power. Consumption in 2019 was 35% below the 2007 level in OECD countries.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

Back in 2007, the AAP was the first national physicians’ group to make a public statement about climate change. Dr. Moon sees patients in the South Bronx, nicknamed “Asthma Alley” for its air pollution. The statement urges pediatricians to talk about climate change to their patients.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Or could it be a rainbow of unique pigments created from none other than a stream of coal mine pollution? But a group of artists, engineers and dedicated community members are finding ways to clean up the pollution and turn it into something meaningful. Artist creates mesmerizing paintings using coal pollution from local streams.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But it’s also meant to drive economic development and reduce pollution in low-income and disadvantaged communities, with half of its funds designated for projects in those areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

The dams also help to remove pollutants such as phosphates. However, other non-native species such as signal crayfish can have a detrimental effect on flood protection because they burrow into river banks causing erosion, bank collapse and sediment pollution.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The island of Fuerteventura, in particular, is spearheading this initiative with the support of IR Maxoinversiones, a company that has been pivotal in the region’s fuel transport and distribution sector since 2007. IR Maxoinversiones is expanding its renewable energy portfolio with a strong emphasis on green hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The data gathered in the Race showed the Baltic Sea to have the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, with 230 particles found per cubic metre, on average, double the amount found in the Mediterranean (112 particles per cubic metre), which is considered a hotspot for plastic pollution. The Science of the Total Environment , Rebelein, A.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

All carbon pollution is equal: this is a founding assumption of the UN Climate Convention, because the atmospheric effect of a tonne of carbon dioxide emitted from a smoking tropical tree in Mato Grosso is no different from a tonne billowing from a coal power station in Missouri. So far, it is no more than a trickle.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Pollution 79

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Beyond development-related environmental impact, cities require proper solid waste management to not only preserve resources but ensure the land does not continue to be depleted and polluted to a point where it is uninhabitable. . Solid waste management and air pollution. In 2016, a measured 4.2 Credissimo.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The researchers suggest that the new diagram should replace a widely used, more simplified graphic, introduced in 2007, which focused on the natural processes that shape the critical zone without addressing human impact on landscapes.

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Soil Sustainability Climate change Government 147

Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The 200-megawatt Lone Star Wind Farm has safely provided renewable energy since 2007, powering the equivalent of more than 86,000 average Texas homes annually.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2023

The Lohia family’s vast wealth is predominantly built on plastics and fertilisers made from refining polluting oil and gas, the primary drivers of the man-made emissions that cause climate change. Indorama Ventures says that the Russian site was acquired back in 2007, though Avgol itself was not acquired for another 11 years.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

He oversaw the company’s expansion into highly polluting oil sands before his retirement in 2007. Others currently hold – or used to hold – positions in polluting sectors. Christians with strong financial ties to high-polluting companies are clearly compromised in taking the urgent action now needed against those companies.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Investment Pollution 98

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. Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”.

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Fossil fuels Politics Global warming Policy 139

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. In fact, in a 2015 survey completed by 365 economists, 81% said that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to cut pollution. it is an extremely effective one.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Research reveals that just 19 policies have been introduced to tackle negative impacts of fast fashion since 2007 - compared to 689 to try and tackle obesity.

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Fashion Government Policy Fossil fuels 63

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Building retrofits and solar panel installation programs re-employed construction workers laid off during the 2007-2008 housing crash. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. Following this, wind and solar were some the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. up from 9% in 2005.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

In 2007, wind energy was about as welcome in America as alien spacecraft, with all kinds of objections blocking project approval. And many corporations are listening to their customers and taking action now to lower their carbon pollution, with big tech leading the way. Lessons from wave one.

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Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

A lot of attention has focused on phasing out single-use plastics , which create visible plastic pollution and release microplastics when they break down. As The Japan Times reports, it began in 2007 with efforts to engineer spider silk, which has long been admired for its strength, durability, and lightness.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Policy Law Global warming Fossil fuels 98

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Importantly, this does not require its highly polluting supporters to cut greenhouse gas emissions – or even to have a plan for doing so. But instead of reducing its pollution, improving efficiency has only enabled it to produce more milk – and with it, more emissions.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 144

Low Impact

MARCH 3, 2021

The solid waste is dealt with on site, and doesn’t have to be treated with chemicals in sewage farms, or end up in waterways, where it causes pollution and algal blooms. Having previously taken toilets somewhat for granted, a trip to the Hockerton Housing Project in 2007 gave me pause for thought. Not a bad list for starters.

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Soil Waste Waste Agriculture 78

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. ” December 10 2007. xii] [xiii]. April 5, 2019.

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 47

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Back in 2007, South Carolina’s investor-owned utilities, Duke Energy and South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G), had considerable influence at the Statehouse and the Public Service Commission (PSC). The Evolution of South Carolina Energy Policy.

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Solar Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

Front And Centered

APRIL 26, 2024

If you were on YouTube in its early days, you might remember “ In My Language ”—Mel’s video that went viral on the platform in 2007. Environmental inequities, such as persistent pollution in frontline communities, don’t just lead to poor health outcomes. They can disable people.

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