DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Last year a coroner ruled that air pollution exposure contributed to the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013 – the first time that air pollution was identified as a cause of death in the UK. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Those include health and environmental impacts from sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate pollution , as well as the plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that add to human-caused climate change. And while people who suffer health impacts aren’t easily identifiable, the harm is nonetheless real.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. They face a lot of environmental health concerns , like asthma or heart disease. “We But it was a little horrifying.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study , and pose a global health crisis , with plastic chemicals linked to preterm births , heart attacks , and cancer. The laws eventually passed in 39 states. So where did the three arrows go wrong?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

The Blob first formed in 2013 and spread across an area of the northeast Pacific the size of Canada. Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. Europe and North America have had clean air laws in place for almost half a century.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Those include health and environmental impacts from sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate pollution , as well as the plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that add to human-caused climate change. And while people who suffer health impacts aren’t easily identifiable, the harm is nonetheless real.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Such challenges include creating a diverse and equal workforce, human rights and workplace health and safety. The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse gives a heartbreaking and chilling reminder of this fact. CSR is known as a soft law, which means initiatives are not legally binding. Benefit #3: CSR manages business risk.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2013, and 2018 was the deadliest year ever, including the Camp Fire in Butte County that claimed 86 lives. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. They face a lot of environmental health concerns , like asthma or heart disease. “We But it was a little horrifying.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. A lot of well intentioned advice was that it was a big mistake to leave a prestigious law firm to go work in state government. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Dubbed one of the “ Desperate Dozen ” imperiled species by conservationists, the diamond darter won a new lease on continued existence in 2013 when its name was added to the federal government’s list of protected endangered species. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The diamond darter.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

MPs have today urged the government to set tougher air pollution targets to help tackle widespread health inequalities and address the risk of a surge in car usage as Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased. Public Health England has classified air pollution as the largest environmental risk to UK public health.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The mental health consequences of the anxiety caused by this can't be over-estimated. And based on the response to this one, those who thought that it couldn't get any worse than our law-breaking, Parliament-proroguing, office-abusing former Prime Minister Boris Johnson might be in for a nasty shock. In a crisis, we need leadership.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The City of Somerville and its Mayor, Joseph Curtatone, have been enthusiastic supporters of Greentown Labs since 2013 and key partners in the incubator’s growth over the past six years. “Somerville has been proud to be the home of Greentown Labs and to work with them to help support their growth. ENGIE North America Inc.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Health Care. -$100 Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Clean Energy Technology Accelerator. -$30 30 billion. Clean Agriculture Funding. -$30 30 billion.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

While very limited conclusions about net population exposure to air pollution can be drawn from the data presented in the original study, the findings are suggestive that all population characteristics were more likely to experience decreases in GHG pollution exposure from facilities in years 2013-2015 (see Part 1, Figure 3 ).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

While very limited conclusions about net population exposure to air pollution can be drawn from the data presented in the original study, the findings are suggestive that all population characteristics were more likely to experience decreases in GHG pollution exposure from facilities in years 2013-2015 (see Part 1, Figure 3 ).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. Zeichner has also argued that pollinator health was “just not negotiable” in a debate on whether to ban particularly harmful neonicotinoid pesticides.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing are riddled with environmental and public health hazards. As a result, the amount of fracking wastewater injected underground in Ohio has surged from 690 million gallons in 2013 to 12.7 billion gallons in 2020, according to Physicians for Social Responsibility and FracTracker Alliance.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. A lot of well intentioned advice was that it was a big mistake to leave a prestigious law firm to go work in state government. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”. “I

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

She’d just graduated from law school, and she, a few of her classmates and Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott put the race together. Pasadena organized one in 2013, and this year, Los Angeles vegetarians will trot on November 23. But the tradition took hold, eventually leading to the many Turkey Trots of today.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs.

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AGreenLiving

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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. It is also about the costs If you are not interested in creating zero-emission vessels for the environment or your health, you could be concerned over your wallet as a shipowner.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

Catalysts for transformation Amidst this career dissatisfaction, I attended a talk in September 2013 by Kate Purmal, hosted by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability. I applied for Covered California, and my husband and I had health insurance for $1/month. Kate’s message was to be bold and cultivate your vision.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 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.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

It needs to get on board and show some leadership, not least by facing up to what's driving the climate emergency - the obsession with endless GDP growth at all costs - and pivot towards an economic model that prioritises the wellbeing of people and the health of our planet.".

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AGreenLiving

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. The law directed state officials to consider the impacts of climate policies on “communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution.”

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Insight Engines.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”.

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