Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain. He also skipped fees for managing a lawful waste operation.” Not only did he charge customers but treated waste illegally.

Waste 130

Waste Waste Law Plastics 130

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined.

Carbon 142

Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Law 142

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." None of them attend school.

Ethics 404

Ethics Africa Health Government 404

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. A clue may be found in Poppe’s approach to a crisis.

Sustainability 505

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Greener UK - a coalition of 13 green groups set up in 2016 to campaign for a post-Brexit Britain governed by robust environmental standards and protections - today released its final major assessment of the government's progress since the pivotal EU membership referendum in 2016. In short, it means a green Brexit.".

Government 90

Government Law Pollution Waste 90

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

Pollution 98

Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release.

Fossil fuels 108

Fossil fuels Ocean acidification North America Pollution 108

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. Effective contracts can provide a legal framework to drive climate action and cut emissions without waiting for policymakers to pass laws.

Law 48

Law Politics Climate change Government 48

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Good Law Project has been urging the Charity Commission to launch an investigation into the GWPF, claiming that the charitable foundation funds non-charitable lobbying work by Net Zero Watch.

Fossil fuels 121

Fossil fuels Climate change Politics Global warming 121

Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The new goals are a significant step up for the domestic appliance maker, which just last summer pledged to halve emissions from its plants and operations by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Whirlpool has also pledged to enhance its environmental footprint by curbing plastic pollution and extending the life of its products.

Recycled materials 92

Recycled materials Recycling Recycling Law 92

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

Fossil fuels 113

Fossil fuels Pollution Climate change Carbon-neutral 113

Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.

Pollution 46

Pollution Government Health Home Energy Monitoring 46

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. To direct funds toward communities with historical pollution and energy burdens, Illinois Solar for All has developed an EJScreen tool to evaluate local conditions. Originally published on ILSR.org.

Pollution 98

Pollution Energy Energy Law 98

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. Concrete Commitments Needed’.

Fossil fuels 96

Fossil fuels Investment Pollution Global warming 96

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Never before in living memory has the future of the natural world faced such crisis.

Law 77

Law Government Pollution Health 77

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

Policy 98

Policy Law Global warming Fossil fuels 98

DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Londoners are calling for their next Mayor to tackle air pollution as a priority, a new pan-European survey has revealed. It comes as residents prepare to head to the polls tomorrow to vote for London’s next Mayor, in the first mayoral election to take place since 2016 after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pollution 60

Pollution Europe Health Law 60

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A historic 2016 verdict ruled in favor of the Dimock residents and ordered Cabot to pay $4.24 A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts. link] — AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) November 29, 2022.

Methane 91

Methane Law Lithium Pollution 91

Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

Earth Day 92

Earth Day Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 92

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.”

Fossil fuels 87

Fossil fuels Investment Climate change Law 87

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And if these funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such as direct action and litigation. The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law.

Fossil fuels 74

Fossil fuels Law Organic Pollution 74

Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

Energy Monitor 65

Energy Monitor Waste Waste Plastics 65

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

“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.

Transportation 68

Transportation Law Climate change Fossil fuels 68

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These documents show how companies worked to erode public acceptance of climate science over the years — including Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s, revealed by DeSmog in 2016, which stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

Carbon 52

Carbon Pollution Nuclear Power Hydropower 52

Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

Carbon 52

Carbon Pollution Nuclear Power Hydropower 52

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ percent (£1.8 The party has received £2.3

Fossil fuels 144

Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 144

Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. A 2016 law requires the state air resources board to implement a strategy to reduce these emissions by 40 percent from 2013 levels by 2030. million dairy cows.

Methane 74

Methane Energy Monitor Ocean acidification Home Energy Monitoring 74

DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

Climate change 82

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Policy 82

DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival. million views.

Fossil fuels 85

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Pollution Carbon-negative 85

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

Policy 72

Policy Carbon-neutral Carbon Pollution 72

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She is founder of close the gap CA , a campaign to recruit progressive women to run for open seats in 2014 and 2016 in the California state legislature. In 1999, she sponsored a law that set up the first network of marine reserves in the country and served as the model for presidents Clinton and Bush to expand federal reserves.

Politics 40

Politics Law Policy Pollution 40

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. As climate disasters wreak havoc across the world, increasing numbers of climate-vulnerable communities , individuals, and local governments have been taking the corporations most responsible for climate pollution and deception to court.

Law 68

Law Fossil fuels Methane Politics 68

Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The findings in Turkey are in clear breach of UK environmental law, they said, which states that it is illegal to export plastic waste unless it is destined to be recycled or incinerated in a waste plant. UK waste exports to Turkey have surged from 12,000 tonnes to 210,000 tonnes a year between 2016 and 2020, according to government figures.

Plastics 53

Plastics Government Waste Waste 53

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The government and Ofwat have announced plans to approve 31 schemes proposed by water companies designed to tackle water pollution and increase the country's resilience to drought, amid growing pressure on both the government and the water sector over the country's record on water quality and sewages discharges.

Investment 41

Investment Pollution Government Resilience 41

Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar. Chief legal officers.

Plastics 87

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 87

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

Electricity 83

Electricity Natural gas Energy Energy 83