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Progress made but too many still falling short, says EA on environmental performance of water and sewerage firms

Envirotec Magazine

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. ” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.”

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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‘Urgent action’ needed if Scotland’s transport sector is to meet net zero targets, according to new report

Envirotec Magazine

According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector. e), representing a 3 per cent rise, and have increased by 9 per cent since 2012.

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New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

The Guardian: Energy

It details the havoc wrought on New York by 2021’s Hurricane Ida and 2012’s Hurricane Sandy , and other deadly climate events such as extreme heatwaves across the US this past summer. Continue reading.

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Gasification platform demonstrates renewable gas production from SRF

Envirotec Magazine

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

But as project economics and scale have improved, and governments are locking in decarbonization laws, a very different environment has been created. With the exception of Total’s stake in SunPower, the trio was fairly quiet for 10 years post-2007. BP’s big pivot.

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Waste crime: how online advertising platforms are facilitating illegal dumping

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Marmalade Photos / shutter stock.com By Ray Purdy, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin, writing in The Conversation The new BBC podcast, Buried , by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system.

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