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

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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States. The Costa Rica-based court was set up in 1979 to interpret and apply the American Convention on Human Rights , a treaty ratified by members of the Organization of American States.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Two weeks ago, Clean Energy Canada and 11 clean energy sector industry associations and organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau detailing the benefits of employing clean-energy-focussed stimulus measures. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. up from 9% in 2005.

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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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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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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2022

As an industry-leading research, development, and demonstration organization, EPRI can support startups in their technology development and deployment. Founded in 2009, the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering is New York City’s longest running cleantech startup incubator. About EPRI.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

DeSmog previously investigated the organization and found it had bought ads that distorted search engine results on Google. Aliénor Rougeot, a climate justice advocate and climate and energy program manager with Environmental Defence, told DeSmog she is “frustrated that our public transit is taken over by big polluters making record profits.”

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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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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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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

JULY 4, 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, the industry’s operations are known to cause pollution, food insecurity and job losses. It also stands accused of ecological harms: causing pollution, driving illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and depleting the marine food web for seabirds, and other sea life.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution.

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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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GreenBiz

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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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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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Michael Diamond thought he’d have to wait until this year, at least, to have enough data to understand how a shipping regulation aimed at curbing pollution affected the clouds that deck the ocean. Others have detected it worldwide in the years since the International Maritime Organization adopted the rule. They’re so wispy.

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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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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. A study published in 2009 found that it had sequestered less than one-tenth the carbon expected.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

When we came out of the great recession in 2009 and were starting to think about our innovation portfolio, we were already thinking about sustainability in a very serious way," Costa told me over lunch in his office in early March, with a sweeping view of a nature preserve and park deeded by Eastman to the city of Kingsport.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2024

En Afrique subsaharienne, les activités de l’industrie sont connues pour être à l’ origine de la pollution, de l’insécurité alimentaire et de pertes d’emplois.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. He recently critiqued policies such as Canada’s cap on oil and gas pollution as belonging to “a slew of costly, ineffective regulatory and subsidy schemes.” They in turn belong to a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the climate crisis accelerates, so, too, do efforts by the fossil fuel industry to derail steep reductions in carbon pollution by mid-century, in part by promoting false solutions. Some companies and organizations are even dropping ad and PR firms for taking on new fossil fuel industry accounts.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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