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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?

Envirotec Magazine

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial.

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Kids’ Climate Case Advances in Hawaii

DeSmogBlog

“It is reassuring to have a court acknowledge our right to hold the Transportation Department accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis,” said 19 year-old plaintiff Kalālapa Winter, whose case is represented by nonprofit law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice. “I United States. Hawaii is one of them.

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Court Hears Expert Testimony About How Montana ‘Doubled Down on Fossil Fuels’ and Became ‘Outright Hostile’ to Clean Energy

DeSmogBlog

This conduct runs afoul of Montana’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, plaintiffs say. Montana’s constitution enshrines the right to a clean and healthful environment. Greg Gianforte signed that bill, HB 971 , into law in May. Credit: Dana Drugmand This right has existed for more than 50 years.

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A System of Secret Arbitration Tribunals Is Undercutting Climate Action Worldwide

DeSmogBlog

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Brexit currently risks failing our environment - here are six ways to turn that around

Business Green

Piles of plastic waste, not a single English river clean enough to swim in, insects facing population collapse, land mismanagement leading to fires and floods , air pollution harming children's health - barely a week goes by without more dire ecological news. Here are six ways it can be improved: 1. We should do the same. Set an objective.

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Study: Ten-fold increase in annual CO2 cuts needed to hit global climate goals

Business Green

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Now we need large-scale actions that are good for human health and good for the planet.". per cent, according to the study. But while emissions fell in 64 countries, they have increased in 150 countries, and overall global emissions grew by 0.21