GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. No longer is it necessary for nuns organized through the Sisters of St.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. 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. Targets for regulation.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." We are focused on safety for human health. The company has banned more than 1,800 ingredients from its formulations due to health and safety concerns. None of them attend school.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the Consumer Energy Alliance ( CEA ) — an organization funded by oil and gas producers — released their own report that presents a different narrative about energy production and air quality in Pennsylvania, a state that’s become one of the nation’s largest producers of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. The organization’s Green Committee meets quarterly to organize sustainability and community outreach plans and communicate progress with the rest of the divisions.

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Grist

MAY 17, 2023

But that’s just the start of the kind of heat we’re headed toward, the World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday. The last year the world saw a powerful El Niño, 2016, was the hottest on record. Record-hot temperatures have scorched the Earth, with recent years numbering among the warmest since records began in 1880.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With Danone’s mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to help consumers understand when food is still safe to eat by supporting Too Good To Go’s ‘Look, Smell, Taste, Don’t Waste’ campaign. One variant of the scheme’s logo. It’s the small acts that can make a big positive difference.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Famously, in 2016, around 2.5 These gases include volatile organic compounds (VOCs), meaning sensitive VOC sensors can be used to check the condition of these batteries – either within portable detectors or in process/plant monitoring equipment. Batteries 2016 , 2 , 5. words: ION Science) References: Nedjalkov, A.et

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Some of that is driven by CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, a 2016 agreement governing international flights, developed by the 191-nation International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations body. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to ICAO. “We

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 20, 2020

The world is preoccupied with coronavirus , however, our health is also being impacted by climate change in a number of ways. Melting ice and rising seas are expected to add to the number of pathogens that undermine human health. Here are five other ways that climate change undermines human health.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Since 2016, we have collaborated with ASU on significant programs including the Planet Incubator Program within ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science , the development of the Allen Coral Atlas , as well as being two of the founding partners in the creation of the Carbon Mapper mission.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

It showed that only 16% of England’s waters – and only 14% of rivers – currently meet the criteria for “good ecological status”, the same percentage as in 2016. However, shying away from necessary action on England’s water quality is certainly a false economy. The post Is England losing the battle for better water quality?

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

I really see this as a little microcosm of everything that’s going on,” said Elib Crist-Dwyer, of Rogue Climate, a grassroots organization in the Talent area working to help ensure that people in marginalized communities have the resources to deal with the effects of climate change and that they have access to clean energy.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. Change in the potential abundance of A.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In many ways, EtO is a poster child for the ways that industry and regulators have, for decades , failed to effectively protect people from chemical safety hazards and health threats like cancer. Muller ranks in the top 25 schools where students’ long-term health is most at risk from toxic air pollution in the U.S., Even after the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Industries, households and vehicles all emit dangerous pollutants that are harmful to human health. Indeed, the European Environment Agency (EEA) highlighted the issue when reporting that over 400,000 Europeans met their untimely demise in 2016 due to poor air quality. It’s a win-win.” Via Reuters Image via dan19878. Continued here:Â

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the support of Clean Energy Group , a national nonprofit advocacy organization working to advance an equitable energy transition, the coalition commissioned an assessment comparing the proposed gas plant to battery resources. The Better Public Health Option. The vote was in favor to move forward with the gas plant.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Organizers of the new Carbon Footprint Eating challenge are hoping that a Meatless Month for Mother Earth will offer so many personal health and global climate benefits that it becomes a new lifestyle for many. Additionally, $1 trillion in annual health-care costs and lost productivity would be saved.”.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Powered by a partnership between Planet, Salo Sciences and Vibrant Planet , with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , the CFO provides unprecedented and continuously updated views of wildfire hazard and forest health for California. © Salo Sciences, Inc.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

It has been one of the most important public health messages since the COVID-19 pandemic began but a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF shows that, as the crisis began, three in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A third of the world’s food production is at risk from climate breakdown, and climate disasters are already increasing malnutrition in some parts of the world, according to UN scientists at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The UAE is one of the world’s 10 largest producers of oil, and is also investing heavily in petrochemicals.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Others have detected it worldwide in the years since the International Maritime Organization adopted the rule. Measurably lower levels of ammonia and sulfur dioxide dirty the air around many ports, and the majority of shipping fuel tested by the organization comply with the limits. percent to 0.5 percent to 0.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

.” “I wish every climate activist understood one thing,” says Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project (who was featured on our 2016 Grist 50 list ). Emily Church, one of the organization’s more than 6,000 volunteers, embraces the nerdiness. “Those are wins.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry. Three years later, in 2016, Country Bird also became KFC’s sole franchisee in Zambia. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. as clients.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. The fourth annual DEMO Day was one of four connected events organized by Greentown and the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) on Oct. in Somerville, MA!

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Simon Weppe, science lead at The Ocean Race said: “Climate change and plastic pollution have, in mere decades, caused a drastic decline in the health of the ocean. 2] Microplastic fibers – Underestimated threat to aquatic organisms? Microplastic filter (image credit: © Aaron Beck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel).

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Each area within the organization will have opportunities to make changes towards a greener environment. Risk Reduction.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The food manufacturer announced yesterday it plans to cultivate organic "micro herbs" such as basil alongside a host of yet-to-be-revealed "experimental crops" at the bespoke vertical farm, which is to designed and built by Vertical Future.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 14, 2021

The program offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market. Cleantech San Diego launched the program in 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Increasing attention to the environmental and human health effects of PFAS is leading to the development of increasingly conservative (low) regulatory levels for PFAS in drinking water, soil, groundwater, sediments and surface waters4, 6-9. In 2016, the detection of PFAS in drinking water in the USA took a step forward. Why a problem?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2016, a measured 4.2 million premature deaths were caused by air pollution, a high percentage of those due to health consequences from air pollution in urban areas. NeighborWorks America is a nonprofit organization working to increase community resilience and housing affordability across the US.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Avery’s leadership experience in multiple academic and scientific organizations, coupled with her breadth of scientific and research expertise, reinforce the corporation’s long-standing technical and scientific foundation,” the company said as it announced her appointment.

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