DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. And even in more recent years, PR firms have helped create front groups and astroturf organizations on behalf of Big Oil. August 18, 2009. Energy Citizens “rally” in Houston, TX.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

By making the shift from using harmful pollutants, to something environmentally friendly and recyclable, you are saying a lot about your business without having to say anything at all. Small fish and organisms can mistake any sort of microplastics as food and ingest them causing illness or death. Lets Go Green. Good Start Packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

8 Legislative landmarks In terms of international legislation, an important landmark is the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), adopted in 2001, and the first international attempt to regulate PFAS, beginning with PFOS in 2009 (later joined by PFOA in 2019 and PFHxS in 2022).

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. ” Background on Earth Day.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

There are many actions breweries can take to reduce their environmental footprint, prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and be a model of sustainability. These actions are needed as the brewing process is energy-intensive, uses large amounts of water, and generates high volumes of wastewater and organic waste.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

The analysis by researchers at the University of Waterloo, published today in partnership with the organization Stand.earth, has found that the total cumulative value of six major U.S. The problem with this argument is that shareholder engagement has not been very effective at compelling big polluters to take serious climate action. “The

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. Legal protection.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

The state had just begun implementation of the cap & trade program, and I was enamored with this new post–AB 32 & SB 535 world that charged polluters and used a fund to bring resources back into communities most impacted by pollution. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Chemical: emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms. 2009; Steffen, W., There are nine planetary boundaries identified. References Rockström, J.,

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. How we create livelihoods, how we meet our needs, and ultimately how we manage our economy is critical to reducing pollution and achieving our vision of climate justice. A Regenerative Economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In a longform feature released in April, DeSmog looked backed on “The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer,” Luke Cole , who tragically died in 2009. A DeSmog investigation of over 300,000 tweets from the past five years revealed four main strategies used by polluters seeking to block climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. They released the world’s first plan to achieve net-zero carbon pollution. And there’s a reason for that: Chevron owns The Richmond Standard.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This dynamic, according to a review of two decades of electric utility rate changes published by scholars in 2009 , creates “a bias toward the status quo or an ‘ossification’ of agency rulemaking as the expected benefits of a new policy may be outweighed by the costs of affecting the change.”.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The initiative is a pilot program the organizers hope will spread to every neighborhood. Related: The Australian government unveils plan to end plastic pollution Andersonville has a history of embracing environmental and social change in Chicago’s north side, as seen through the Andersonville Recycles program, which launched in 2009.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

The organization identified Mauna Kea as a potential location for its proposed Thirty Meter Telescope back in 2009. The development would also likely result in higher emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants such as dust and exhaust fumes due to increased traffic vehicles going back and forth from the site.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Both tracks offer exclusive access to EPRI’s breadth of testing facilities, demonstration sites, and technical experts, as well as experts from across Shell’s technology organization and hydrogen business and, when appropriate, access to the Shell GameChanger and Shell Ventures teams.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 14, 2023

Companies across multiple industries have continued to choose EV Connect as their guide through the process of actualizing their goal of having an EV solution since 2009. You will organize and coordinate office administration and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and safety.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

The Prince of Wales believes passionately in the advantages of organic farming. In 1985, when it was still a relatively new concept, His Royal Highness decided to convert the Duchy Home Farm into a completely organic farming system. Leon is the author of The Architecture of Community, published by Island Press in 2009.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This organization launched a research programme dedicated to studying the phenomenon of global change. percent in 2010 (a record for that time) as developed economies (China, USA, India, the Russia, and the European Union) resumed their emissions growth after a brief respite during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Eligibility Requirements Organization Types and Usage: Domestic manufacturers of eligible components. 48C was enacted in 2009 and fully allocated in 2013. Credit amounts vary by each type of eligible component. New or Modified Provision: Modified and extended. All rights reserved.

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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. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In 2009, the Texas Legislature tried a different tactic: It passed a law requiring producers requesting cleanup extensions to take remedial steps, such as plugging at least 10 percent of their inactive wells each year, disconnecting electrical lines, and removing old junk left at well sites. Ten wells were just holes in the ground.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. 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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In 2009, the Texas Legislature tried a different tactic: It passed a law requiring producers requesting cleanup extensions to take remedial steps, such as plugging at least 10 percent of their inactive wells each year, disconnecting electrical lines, and removing old junk left at well sites. Ten wells were just holes in the ground.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

An academic study published last week which assessed the green claims made by four global oil majors - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP - between 2009 and 2020 concluded that "until actions and investment behaviour are brought into alignment with discourse, accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded" for all of them.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The FTC considers these terms deceptive if a product has any substance, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), known to erode the ozone layer. Meanwhile, corporate money has been surging into efforts to boost regenerative farming, some of which is launched only so it can be advertised to offset carbon pollution elsewhere.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The self-organizing, all-volunteer effort has more than 25 active state teams and organized more than 100 grassroots events, which collectively have raised more than $2.6 A recent poll from Pew Research shows that 68 percent of likely voters rank climate as "very" or "somewhat" important, up from 44 percent in 2009.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. Armenta, who was working for a local environmental justice organization at the time, was deeply concerned, but not surprised, by the news. In 2009, high levels of fecal coliform, bacteria like E.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Replate works with restaurants, caterers, food distributors, offices and other organizations to directly deliver their surplus food to those in need in local communities. The brand prioritizes using organic, renewable, and recycled materials whenever possible. Operating in most major U.S. Fjällräven.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. 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.

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