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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

James Parish Council steered polluting facilities into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi River. As a result, Black residents there are forced to breathe in more pollution and face a higher risk of related health problems, according to the suit filed by Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The economic, environmental, and public health challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis in 2020 continue unabated as we usher in a new presidential administration. billion from 2014 to 2019 in ISO-New England. And the savings didn’t stop there: CO2 pollution was reduced by 1.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to a YouGov survey conducted in January 2023 , 10 per cent of Brits said that they have now tried Veganuary - where they pledge to try a vegan diet for 31 days - since the campaign first launched in 2014. The Veganuary movement was founded in 2014 to inspire and support more people to try vegan food.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

On the subject of water quality issues – in the aftermath of the 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, many US cities started more closely inspecting and monitoring their own pipe infrastructure and water sources. We are currently seeing a similar surge in federal investment. Wastewater 2012- 2022.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Power plants, toxic waste dumps, and other air and water polluting industries are more often located in poor neighborhoods where there is a higher concentration of people of color. Sadly, the location of these types of polluting industries has not changed over the years. Of those who did leave, many could not afford to return.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

When the Chemical Footprint Project launched in December 2014, it aspired to become the next carbon footprint or the next widely used tool for measuring company performance on a critical sustainability concern — toxic chemical use in the manufacturing of products. . Chemical footprinting comes of age. Meg Wilcox. Mon, 07/13/2020 - 02:00.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

The home retrofits are designed to help reduce indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and increase home values and resiliency during extreme weather events. Since 2014, BlocPower has completed energy projects in more than 1,200 buildings in 26 cities, it said. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Health systems will bear the brunt of the climate-related health emergencies, so bold action needs to be taken to reduce the sector's ever-growing emissions, a new report argues. There is no question the health impacts of the climate emergency have the potential to dwarf those of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new target levels for air pollutants to be included in the Environment Act, including a reduction in the PM2.5 Particulates and health. and PM10 (PM4.25

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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. The city of Richmond exists in the shadow of the nearby Chevron refinery, which has been connected to poor air quality and health issues in the nearby community.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It isn’t easy to undo a century of industrial pollution — or even agree on how to do it. In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a comprehensive cleanup plan for the waterway. Efforts to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway have been decades in the making.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . according to a 2014 study. But a 2014 research paper suggested that due to how carbon interacts with certain rock formations, not all such aquifers are necessarily effective for storing it. percent and 75 percent.,

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sometimes, you can see the pollution hanging in the air. Pollution is a huge public health problem, especially in China. Many of the world’s most polluted cities are in China. Many of the world’s most polluted cities are in China. Enter the Pollution Ranger. Enter the Pollution Ranger.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

That corporate lineage is interesting in that AES became the first to contract a battery of this size when utility Southern California Edison awarded it the Alamitos contract in 2014. Once the plant is operational, expected in August 2021, CPA will use it to satisfy a resource adequacy obligation with the state.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

This former plantation land’s modern nicknames are Cancer Alley and Death Alley because of the pollution-induced illness rife in the riverside communities. This is some of America’s most polluted air, with eight major industrial plants in 103 square miles and a new, enormous plastic project on the horizon. While only 13% of the U.S.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. by paper on the rocks (undated) v Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 vi Why Recycled Paper? And how can we rebalance our friendship with trees?)

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. Looking back with regret.

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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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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Kyle Cavanuagh at the University of California – Los Angeles works with PlanetScope data to quantify and measure the extent and health of kelp forests off the shore of Northern California. “We in urban spaces. “[ Our paper ] shows neighborhood level hot spots [of PM 2.5 ] in Delhi,” explained Dr. Bergin.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. Or rather, the dogs do.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 23, 2020

Since 2014, more than 600 medium- and heavy-duty trucks, including 65 all-electric trucks and buses, have been purchased under this program. By prioritizing investments in the electrification of America’s trucks and buses, we can begin to put Americans back to work while protecting our health and climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

In August 2014, nearly half a million people in the Toledo area were without tap water for nearly three days due to contaminated drinking water. Previous experiments have suggested that managing harmful cyanobacteria blooms requires reduction of both phosphorus and nitrogen pollution in lakes.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

UpEnergy said the sale of the credits provide an opportunity for African consumers with access to electricity to abandon the burning of unsustainable and polluting wood-based fuels and switch to zero-emission cooking. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers followed this reintroduced population and tracked their distribution and health. benefit the diversity of freshwater invertebrates, reduce nutrient levels in outflow, filter pollution and ?allow Now they’re back. In 2015, two beaver families were released on the River Otter in Devon. Reconciling ranchers and rewilders.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Growing evidence of the myriad benefits well-maintained soils can deliver by combating climate change, alleviating flooding, boosting crop yields, and supporting biodiversity, has been highlighted in a new Royal Society report today, which argues the UK now stands at a "critical moment" for the future of the country's soil health.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

million to settle air pollution claims against the wood pellet factories in the US. Residents in Gloster have spoken of their health declining since Drax began operations in the town in 2014. The company that runs Drax power station recently paid up to $3.2

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. James, according to a report by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Resilient power – solar photovoltaics paired with battery storage (solar+storage) – has gained traction as more municipalities, affordable housing developers, and community leaders become aware of the economic, environmental, and health benefits of resilient power. You can learn more about these great projects here.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. As then-CEO David Novak told investors in 2014, the opportunity for expansion in so-called “emerging markets” was “huge.” “We as clients. percent, according to an FAO estimate.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

” This goal will become reality “when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.” Additional examples of environmental injustice remain plentiful.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2021

They found that from 2005 to 2014, hospitalization and death rates in Pennsylvania were 1.4% The study mainly considered the density of fracking wells and adjusted for coal production and access to health insurance, which can affect medical care. higher than in New York. more likely to die by heart attack than those in New York.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Eco friendly bags cause less water and land pollution Plastic bags are lightweight, meaning they travel long distances through the wind and water. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris.

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