Grist

JULY 26, 2024

The Sunshine State, which was once among the world’s leading citrus producers and until 2014 produced almost three-quarters of the nation’s oranges , has weathered such challenges before. Torrential rain and flooding can inundate groves and deplete the soil of oxygen. Its citrus growers are nothing if not resilient.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil.

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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. Grist / Zoya Teirstein. Or rather, the dogs do.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Stuart had run tests in 2014 and 2015 and found both chemicals, PFOS and PFOA, in its water supply. But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Founded in 2014 as Symbiota, Indigo Ag focused initially on developing microbe-based seed coatings that substituted for chemically based ones and, the company claims, dramatically increased crop yields. From there, Indigo Carbon consults with the farm on how it might absorb more carbon into its soil or release less to begin with.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM concluded in a 2023 legislative report. The mandate of CalGEM is to protect public health and the interests of Californians.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns. The gentle midmorning sun warms us as we follow McKay toward a ridge.

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Econaur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Access to clean water and sanitation is integral in keeping public health intact. Unscientific waste disposal and inadequate sanitation facilities affect both the health of humans and the environment they live in. Its line of products includes waterless urinals, natural cleaners, sewage care items, and food composting structures.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. In 2014, Austin Master received an ODNR order , known as a Chief’s Order, giving the company temporary approval to “process, recycle, and treat brine” and other oilfield waste.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Related: Attenborough Effect inspires people to drastically reduce single-use plastics Chasing Coral, 2017 Coral is a barometer for the health of the planet. As a measure of this health, coral is showing that the earth is sick. The images and reporting cover 20 locations over the course of four years.

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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. What business practices should change?

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Although Xiong’s previous research using space-exposed seeds has identified mutant varieties of wheat that are more tolerant to saline soil , which can prove useful as saltwater encroaches on agricultural fields thanks to rising sea levels, she hopes to identify others that are resistant to dry conditions or use nitrogen more efficiently.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Dredged soil from much of that construction was piled on the edges of waterways, forming piles known as spoil banks, or spoil levees, which impede the natural flow of water.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

There, past piles of empty beehives, on a wall of metal shelves, were stacks of wooden disks — all that remains of 39 trees taken down in 2014 from Great Mountain Forest in the northwest corner of the state. The results are important,” he adds, “but whether internal tree decay is the single most burning question? Probably not.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

The NASA Harvest team, with international partners from the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative, measure multiple environmental factors—including precipitation, soil moisture, and temperature—to assess the health of crops and anticipate end-of-season yields.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris. The dury is out to find out the full effects of these plastics on human health. When compostable bags are discarded, their natural breakdown enriches soils.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Proud Pour began in New York City in 2014 when founder Berlin Kelly realized wine could be an avenue for environmental improvements. “I A second offering from the company focuses on bee health. Thurber told Inhabitat, “Up next are Grenache for Gray Wolves, Chardonnay for Sharks , and Syrah for Soil.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2021

According to an article about the history of Olive Hill written by Nathan Masters in 2014 , Spires selected olives because that crop was three to four times more profitable than the produce from lemon trees. About a third of the entire grove’s trees require special care to bring them back to health.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The stock of natural capital per person declined by nearly 40 per cent between 1992 and 2014, a period when produced capital per person doubled, and human capital per person increased by about 13 per cent. This imbalance must be addressed, according to the report, or else disaster awaits.

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AGreenLiving

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. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. A cover crop is simply something grown over the winter, when fields are usually bare. Scott Olson / Getty Images.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Memon was hired as a special adviser to the Treasury in 2022, having served as the CPS’s Head of Economic Research from 2014 to 2015. But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. Not for her own benefit. However, the IEA does still retain a foothold.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. Professor Stanton is a clinician-scientist who served as the director of human health at livestock feed company Devenish Nutrition until 2023.

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