GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Well, despite satellite images revealing rapid reductions in air pollution during lockdowns around the world, more people switching to telecommuting for good does not necessarily equate to lower carbon emissions from transport. Google searches for ‘telecommuting’ in the UK, 2016-2020. How travel patterns compare.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The findings suggest that this sea-to-air transport process is a significant contributor to PFAS air pollution in coastal areas. The findings indicate that these PFAS are transported from seawater to marine air by sea spray aerosols, which constitute a significant source of PFAS air pollution to coastal communities. 2016-00644).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. The years top carbon polluters were a mix of investor-owned and state-owned or national companies but they have one thing in common. And their lobbying efforts took aim at regulating climate-altering pollution or sought to impede the energy transition.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. These steel plants can replace polluting blast furnaces with a process that emits water vapor instead of CO2. The steel industry contributes directly to 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity. This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. BBC StoryWorks has also worked extensively with other polluting transport companies.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

New analysis of Environment Agency data appears to reveal a worrying level of chemical pollution in rivers and other freshwater sites across England. The actual numbers of chemical pollutants will be even higher 3 The chemical cocktails found across the 1,619 sites contained six different chemicals in five different hazardous mixtures.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This model, known as the circular economy, could help tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution. The circular economy is underpinned by three principles, each driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution; keep products and materials in use; and regenerate natural systems.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Michael Diamond thought he’d have to wait until this year, at least, to have enough data to understand how a shipping regulation aimed at curbing pollution affected the clouds that deck the ocean. When industries around the world emit fewer of these pollutants, clouds darken. “They’re so variable.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2025

“Defra should conduct a six-month sprint, with industry, on removing the barriers to using NBS to flooding and pollution.” Early priorities pegged in the document include The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017; and The Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

IEMA research shows that leading businesses recognise real benefits from embedding and developing sustainability approach (see IEMA’s document “Beyond the Perfect Storm” , published 2016). The IEMA sustainability skills for managers course targets senior members of staff who hold responsibility for environmental management.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Introducing the Ultra Low Emission Zone and rolling out more electric buses have delivered significant drop in pollution, Mayor claims. Last week it also unveiled plans to ban the sale of the most polluting fuels - such as coal and wet wood - for home fire places in a bid to tackle fine particle and dust pollution.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

The announcement marks a major coup for the PCAF and is a landmark green move for Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest and most recognizable private banking groups, which from 2016 to 2019 invested more than $91 billion n fossil fuels, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

London Mayor calls for increased air pollution measures as new analysis reveals that London school children are four times more likely to be exposed to PM2.5. Moreover, it said the data showed that children in London are four times more likely to attend schools in highly polluted areas than those across the rest of England.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

billion in 2016, while Google acquired Nest for $3.2 But that deal fell apart amid the larger unraveling of the would-be renewables supermajor in March 2016. California-based solar installer Sunrun plans to acquire competitor Vivint Solar for $3.2 billion, the companies announced Monday night. billion in 2014. billion in 2015.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. Examples of those harmful pollutants are nitrous oxides, ozone and particulate matter.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For Edna Ibarra, it was the realization that with every breath her 11-year-old son was breathing in a little more of an industrial carcinogen that drove her to get involved in the fight against air pollution in Laredo, Texas. If these three pollutants were eliminated,” the Intercept reported, “only one census tract in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Jillian Lennartz (2016). James Connelly (2016) left the Living Future Institute after eight years to become CEO of My Green Lab, a nonprofit in the life science Industry. .

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Founded in 2016, HydroFleet brings deep expertise to the table, with a leadership team boasting over 40 years of combined experience in the hydrogen sector. By utilizing safe, proven hydrogen technology, it will reduce emissions and noise pollution, helping create a cleaner, more sustainable future for our community.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Building on aerial surveys conducted since 2016, Carbon Mapper researchers have been refining the algorithms and processes necessary to pinpoint and quantify super-emitting sources of methane and CO2 quickly. Reducing methane pollution starts with measuring it,” said Michael R. Planet Basemap courtesy of Planet Labs.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

After this conference, in 2016, Heartland’s science director gave a speech titled "Man-Caused Global Warming: The Greatest Scam in World History" (rather than one called, say, "Man-Caused Global Warming: We Agree We’re Causing It But Predict Less Warming Than Others Do."). and that still believing in it was "more than a little nutty."

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The exposure draft responds to these pressures, building on the latest authoritative insights and extensively revamping the 2016 Standard ( GRI 304 ). What this context underlines is that companies face huge demands, from multiple stakeholders, to do more to assess, disclose and reduce their biodiversity impacts.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In a 2016 study, Seattle determined 28 percent of the city is covered in trees, close to its 2037 goal of 30 percent. But as is the case with renewable energy credits, there are worries that carbon credits could give businesses the same license-to-pollute mentality. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation first created its Global Plastic Pact as part of its New Plastics Economy Global Commitment in 2016. The circular economy powerhouse got over 20 percent of all global plastic packaging companies to pledge to address plastic waste and pollution at its source. (In

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates the offshore energy industry, has acknowledged gaps in accountability that could be enabling more pollution, such as unverified self-reported emissions numbers and flyover inspections that fail to detect pipeline leaks. Credit: BOEM , CC BY-SA 2.0

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Between 2016 and 2021, a group of just 12 Australian fossil fuel companies emitted more carbon pollution than 50% of the Pacific Islands’ total emissions over the same period. The post Carbon emissions from Australia’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ more than half Pacific Islands’ emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

By 2007, their PCB concentrations were below the official cut-off for toxic effects (9 mg per kg of lipid), Yet in 2016 and 2017, 39% tested had more than this safe limit. The 209 types of PCBs take longer to degrade than many other pollutants and stay inside marine life, like dolphins, porpoises and whales, for different lengths of time.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The risk of polluting underground water resources seemed to be foremost in the mind of Tory council leader Jonathan Owen when he supported a vote to ban fracking in East Yorkshire in early October.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union saw a record drop in pollution from fossil fuel power plants last year, according to a new report. It’s an even bigger drop in power sector pollution than the bloc experienced in 2020 when the covid-19 pandemic shut down business and travel.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

The latest water classification results , released in September 2020 by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), painted a discouraging picture of the nation’s progress in preventing pollution of its rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies of water.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

Reduced air pollution from the lockdown has contributed to new records in Germany and the U.K., With traffic off the roads, planes out the skies and many industries closed, some sources of air pollution have fallen drastically. Pollution can block solar radiation directly, and make panels dirtier. A decrease of around 0.4

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

However, while investments in energy access have rapidly accelerated since 2016, total volumes still fall short of the estimated financing needed to reach universal electricity access around the world by 2030. Commercial and industrial off-grid energy access will see significant growth in the 2020s.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

English rivers suffering increased chemical pollution which is damaging biodiversity, conservation groups warn. UK rivers are suffering increased chemical pollution from pesticide use, which is causing significant damage to their ecosystems and aquatic wildlife, green groups have warned today.

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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.

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