Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health. This is most notable for China, which is a major chemical producer (including PFAS like PFOA).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle, it is only fair that those responsible for carpet pollution should be forced to pay for the damage they cause.” Also, CRUK claims that this is recycling, while in reality, shredded carpet cannot be used again and ends up polluting the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. But to my mind, this is not an argument for not increasing taxes on polluting activity. This is not a new idea, but it is one whose time has come.

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Charged

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2009, Eagle brought its expertise in designing and manufacturing A/C electric tow tractors to the aviation market. Noise pollution – EVs are much quieter than their non-electric counterparts and lessen the impact of noise pollution on the health of airport workers.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The planetary boundaries framework , published in 2009, demarcates a safe operating space for humanity. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. The water boundary had been considered to be within the safe zone.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, there is a growing need to develop and deploy a broader suite of solutions aimed at reducing pollution. This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

In times of crisis, like the 2009 financial crisis or COVID-19, investors are compelled to take a closer look at corporate governance practices like disaster contingency plans, cybersecurity risk management and decisions about capital structure — [such as] share buybacks & M&A activity. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. The study did not pinpoint specific pollutants or look at what stage of the drilling process might be worse than others.

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Charged

APRIL 29, 2021

If electrification is to have the desired effect on air pollution, it may not be enough to encourage the sale of EVs—policymakers need to consider strategies proactively scrap older vehicles, and/or to reduce Americans’ dependence on the automobile by expanding public transit options.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 6, 2020

This 2009 quote , from then-prime minister Stephen Harper announcing federal stimulus dollars for a new highway passing lane in Nova Scotia, pretty much sums up his government’s approach to pulling Canada’s economy out of recession a decade ago: if it’s ready to go and creates some jobs, write a cheque. We don’t have to go back to normal.

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Charged

MARCH 23, 2020

Funding is available to replace existing diesel buses with model year 2009 and older engines, which must be removed from service and scrapped. The state’s Truck Voucher Incentive Program provides point-of-sale rebates.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. The GWPF said in 2015 that “policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

AVTA says in addition to slashed carbon emissions and local air pollution, it's been able to save 769,231 gallons of diesel fuel, the equivalent of more than $1 million in fuel cost savings. . Its goals are to reduce its fleet's energy consumption by 35 percent below 2009 levels by 2025 and 60 percent by 2040. . Schneider Electric.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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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. Indeed, part of the land that the Micmac obtained in 2009 was previously used as a firefighting testing area. Its roots are deep and profuse — the better to uptake pollutants from soil.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for England provides a legally-binding framework and updated package of environmental objectives to tackle water pollution from water companies, the agriculture sector, climate change, and population growth, according to the EA.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in what they say will be Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” since 2009. There’s excessive noise pollution. The flares can be seen as far away as Edinburgh. Your House Vibrates’.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The GWPF was set up by the late Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor of the exchequer, in 2009, and has consistently spread climate science denial. Reform UK has made transport a pillar of its political campaigning, claiming there is a “war on drivers” being waged via anti-pollution and low-traffic schemes. The Tory party received £3.5

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, introduced in early 2009, increased GDP 2% to 3% above what it would have been and supported over 6 million job-years (a full-time job for one year) from 2009 to 2012. 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

MARCH 12, 2020

benefit the diversity of freshwater invertebrates, reduce nutrient levels in outflow, filter pollution and ?allow The recent report feels a far cry from the one produced after the first official beaver reintroduction trial, which ran in Knapdale, Scotland from 2009-2014. allow sediment to settle out and bury carbon.

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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. August 18, 2009. Indeed, Exxon says it has spent only $300 million on its algae biofuels research since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal , a rounding error for the company.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IIASA contributed N2O emission inventory data from the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model, including those from industrial processes needed for data alignment. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

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.” By 2009, three years after he joined the Aurea board, he was national editor of Maclean’s magazine, which didn’t respond to a media request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

The Vauxhall Pay Up campaign is calling on UK drivers who bought new or second-hand or leased a diesel Vauxhall vehicle between 2009 and 2019 to join a group claim being prepared by law firm Milberg London LLP. Vauxhall Motors is not aware of any such claim and rejects any accusation of using illegal defeat devices," the spokesperson said.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 19, 2022

Even though the company has been 100% recycled for more than 70 years, it was only in this century that it started incorporating this vital message into its packaging—and only since 2009 that environmental branding has become central in its consumer-facing talking points.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. In August, the 98-year-old company joined the U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He currently serves as a director of the Conservative Party Foundation – the party’s multi-million pound endowment fund, created under his watch in 2009 to manage “legacy funds to support the long-term finance” of the party. A number of fellow board members have financial interests in oil and gas firms. The Conservatives received £3.5

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

These markets trade pollution offsets in the form of carbon credits from farmers decarbonizing activities. Look back Identify change within individual parcels over time with the Planet Archive , a living database that includes proprietary datasets back to 2009, and public datasets back to 1972.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

The state was held responsible for widespread pollution caused by the La Oroya smelter complex, which was operated by Doe Run Peru (an indirect subsidiary of U.S.-based based Doe Run Company) from 1997 to 2009.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Wildlife Trusts have been at the forefront of beaver reintroduction and projects in Britain ever since Kent Wildlife Trust released the first pair into a fenced area of fenland in 2001, followed by the Scottish Beaver Trial in 2009.

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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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