Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Buildings must become far more energy efficient to deliver the UK's net zero target, but progress remains frustratingly slow, argues Rob Martin of LGIM Real Assets. The government not long ago consulted on this issue (which may have been the reason for the omission), with proposals to revise the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES).

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment. Bills to plan for reducing food waste (HB 1114 ) and a cracking-down on greenwashing plastic products (ESHB 1569) also passed. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, the report argues that progress on improving UK water quality has been undermined by ongoing failures to adequately enforce regulations, which has resulted in a shifting of regulatory responsibility on to the private sector, the deferral of key targets, a decline in reporting frequency, and the rolling-back of monitoring programmes.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

New survey released for Repair Week finds that 60 per cent of Londoners have electrical items at home in need of repair London homes are filled with items that could be repaired, according to a new survey which suggests Londoners threw away £1.8bn of repairable items last year. million devices and paid out £320m, O2 said.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency-approved monitoring, reporting and verification plans to validate the integrity, transparency and permanence of the entire sequestration process. Occidental has been permanently storing CO2 for more than 40 years, with nearly 20 million metric tons sequestered in its operations annually.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. This summer, a large U.S. This summer, a large U.S.

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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Automotive Consumer Products Clean Energy Inputs Batteries Machinery Mining Paper Plastics Cement Steel Glass Chemicals Key Relevant Provisions §45X and §48C are the key provisions to know for advanced manufacturing, offering incentives for domestic clean technology and energy efficient manufacturing.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

While 70% of total expenditures are directed toward “Clean Energy & Clean Air” investments, additional claims on those funds may diminish the amount made available for direct emission reduction activities. 3 Less coverage generally lowers price signal impacts, unless the changes for those sectors require a much higher price signal.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. Nature and finance. Low-hanging fruit?

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Along the Vermilion River in Illinois, it is seeping into unlined pits containing coal ash — a hazardous waste — and carrying heavy metals into drinking-water aquifers. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Less waste than / Less toxic than. That means spelling out, for instance, that the bottle produces 20 percent less waste than the previous version of the product. Made with renewable energy. A company that uses fossil fuel-based energy shouldn't make this claim unless it buys renewable energy credits (RECs), the FTC says.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As is headed in that direction. Dennis Schroeder/NREL.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Metal recycling has created vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials since metal usage began. While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Indeed, part of the land that the Micmac obtained in 2009 was previously used as a firefighting testing area. It takes at least one year and very careful monitoring, so it’s not for everyone,” she wrote. The key is safely discarding waste to avoid creating another mess. Meanwhile, the work at Loring continues.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”. Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

For decades, oil and gas companies disposed of millions of barrels of waste down that hole, ringed with cement and steel, dubbing the wastewater well Freshwater City SWD 01, according to state records. Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. This summer, a large U.S. This summer, a large U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S. Ginkgo Sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. The initiative seeks submissions from startups whose technologies are creating value from the capture or conversion of carbon waste, with net-zero or negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. TCEQ continues to vigilantly evaluate benzene levels at [the Jacintoport] monitor, while encouraging efforts to reduce benzene in this area,” an agency spokesperson said in an email. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Africa is home to vast thermal, wind, solar, and hydro energy resources (some 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential ) as well as mineral deposits essential for the global energy transition.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

As an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he finds it deeply rewarding to guide the next generation of renewable energy finance leaders. As an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he finds it deeply rewarding to guide the next generation of renewable energy finance leaders.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The data is drawn from various sources, including the Global CCS Institute; the International Energy Agency; the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis; the Geoengineering Monitor , and DeSmog research. Storing this waste product underground continues to save Equinor hundreds of millions in annual taxes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. As recently as 2009, Risch, who has 40 years of experience in the rail industry, was operating trains hauling coal.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 17, 2025

  We’ve just returned from Texas, where CERAWeek — the "Super Bowl of Energy" — brought together the biggest players in oil, gas, finance, and policy. In deals, $40m in specialty chemicals manufacturing, $28m in direct air carbon capture, and $28m in grid power storage. Full transcript here.)

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