Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

EVs are also expected to deliver benefits in terms of human health, but this has not been extensively studied. Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Consumption of PFOS-contaminated freshwater fish can cause significant increases in peoples’ blood serum levels of the forever chemical, creating potential health risks. Identifying sources of PFAS exposure is an urgent public health priority,” said Stoiber. PFAS build up in our bodies and never break down in the environment.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. Read his 2013 interview , when he "retired" from Applied Materials, in which he recounts his professional journey to that point.).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. The report calculates that the annualised health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol is up to £170 million every year. billion for PM2.5

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

NHS Sustainability Day campaign launches annual impact report as work continues by expert panel commissioned by NHS England to investigate into how and when the health service can meet net zero. The group was convened in January, as NHS England launched an intiaitve dubbed For a Greener NHS, in a bid to tackle the 'climate health emergency'.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

As of late May, smack in the middle of the pandemic, these numbers dropped dramatically, down to 2013 levels at 33 percent and 19 percent respectively. Worries about the health of the economy and human health far outweigh concerns about the environment right now. And we’re really worried about getting our basic needs met.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Enviva got support from Northampton County Commissioners before opening the plant in 2013.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

Researchers say early deaths may have been avoided over 10-year period if technology installed Research has estimated the health impacts from the coal-fired power plants that operate across India. In China, 95% of coal-fired power plants were fitted with clean-up technologies by 2013. Continue reading.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The experience of space and place refers to spatial features and characteristics of the natural environment that have advanced human health and wellbeing. Studies have proven that biophilic design can improve mental and physical health, environmental conditions and may be economical. Biophilic Design and Biophilic Urbanism.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

"My Green Lab is a brilliant project because it reaches out to change behavior and mindset of scientists in the lab," said Pernilla Sörme, risk management lead in global safety, health and environment at AstraZeneca, which expanded Green Lab Certification to seven sites across its global portfolio.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 6, 2022

ImpactAlpha, January 6 — Accra-based mPharma, launched in 2013, has partnered with more than 155 hospitals, 850 pharmacies to deliver telehealth services and. The post Ghanaian pharmacy venture mPharma raises $35 million to expand drug access in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s a general truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, an idea clear to Lord Kelvin over 100 years ago¹ and enacted by health & safety professionals when they carry out risk assessments (or check the effectiveness of controls). However, the Code has a special legal status. References.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 IAEA experts examine recovery work on top of Unit 4 of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in April 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Target's Sustainable Product Standard came on the scene in 2013. A color-coded letter grade rolls up information from the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification , Cradle to Cradle (on material health) and the EPA SaferChoice Safer Chemical Ingredients List. Nike has its own Chemistry Playbook.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 13, 2024

Analysis finds 58 people have died due to cold homes every winter day since 2013 Tory pledge to ‘cut the green crap’ The government’s failure to insulate the UK’s cold and leaky homes is costing thousands of lives a year, according to analysis. Continue reading.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2025

VOD is an indicator of the amount of water in the vegetation, and reflects plant health. Additionally, VOD trends closely mirrored hay yield, underscoring its utility as a key indicator of plant health and productivity. To quantify the relationship between these variables and hay yield, we calculated correlation coefficients.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The company values incorporate: • To put health and safety first at all times. • As well as its commitment to the environment, LCM champions improvements in health and safety standards. To have paramount regard for the environment. • To be innovative and to encourage staff to innovate safely. •

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

AI Governance Gaps: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force across industries, with investment in AI increasing more than fivefold between 2013 and 2023. The FPI, a measure of financial health, is based on data from over 40,000 companies globally.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. The choices we make in regard to supplies, energy usage, and product movement are all measured against the impact to the environment and the long-term health of our planet.” – Tim McCann, Best Cleaners. 500 | 5000 America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2021

More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Back in the summer, they celebrated 10 years of spent carbon reactivation at their Immingham facility, the site later being awarded a prestigious Green Apple environmental award as well as its ISO45001 accreditation for health & safety.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Published on August 17 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , the study looked at almost 2,500 children in Pennsylvania, including 405 who have been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of blood cancer. They found that children living within two kilometers (roughly 1.2 Drilling rig in Lawrence County, PA.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges. Indeed, Eugene F.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

In January 1995, Schladming became a fixed date in the World Cup calendar, and in 2013, with the increased popularity of the venue and a peak in the number of visitors, the new wastewater treatment plant was built.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. After the government promised to halt shale gas projects in the UK last year, however, support for fracking continues to dwindle, with 41 per cent stating their opposition, rising from 21 per cent in 2013.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6 million hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year. The TRIR, measuring the number of injuries per million hours worked, fell from 3.28 in 2021 to 2.82 in 2022 (down from 5.52 in 2021 to 1.03 in 2016).

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Grist

JULY 14, 2021

The temperatures were unbelievable,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle. Heat wasn’t top of mind for public health experts until relatively recently. A cooling station in Portland during a record-setting heat wave on June 28, 2021. Kathryn Elsesser / AFP via Getty Images.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With Michael Braungart, 2013. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. Now, she said, most cases are acquired locally, generally spreading among patients in health care settings. auris infections. auris was first spreading in the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The three most commonly used decibel weightings are ‘A’, ‘C’ and ‘Z’ as defined in the sound level meter standards IEC 61672:2013 (BS EN 61672-1:2013). You may have noticed that some sound meters allow you to choose the frequency weighting you want to measure noise at. But which one do you choose?

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 21, 2024

It’s a trend that raises health risks as the planet heats up. hours in 2013, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Climate change supercharges disasters like storms and wildfires that often cut off power. Soaring demand for air conditioning also stresses out the grid. Americans experienced an average of 5.5

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In particular, controversy has dogged California’s cap-and-trade policy , which took effect in 2013 and regulates roughly 450 entities accounting for 85 percent of California’s emissions. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2013, the bank loaned Country Bird Holdings $25 million to expand existing operations in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean.

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