GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

As it relates to energy, moving away from long transmission lines and centralized power plants burning extracted, polluting fuels and towards a distributed system that combines local energy storage with renewables improves resilience — consistent with the principles of biomimicry. That’s the vision. Do justice.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. By 2019, the company counted more than a billion total rides, with 2 million annual drivers in more than 650 U.S.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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Fossil fuels Law Education Climate change 98

GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The truck rule follows another California law ( passed in 2018 ) that says all new public transit buses sold must be zero-emission starting in 2029. CARB estimates that 2 million diesel trucks cause 70 percent of the smog-causing pollution in the state. By 2045, all new commercial trucks sold in California must be zero-emission. .

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Transportation Electricity Law Carbon 298

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Health 213

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government could yet again find itself in court over dangerous levels of air pollution, with the latest official data showing the UK is on track to miss legal targets for four out of five pollutants covered by a crucial piece of clean air legislation, ClientEarth has warned.

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Pollution Government Health Transportation 100

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Beyond the issue of pollution, the production of virgin hydrocarbon-based polymers is carbon-intensive due to the extraction and refining of crude oil. For the plastics that do not end up recycled or as pollution, the incineration process also emits a lot of carbon. The environmental impact of plastics is widely documented.

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Carbon Plastics Building Energy Monitoring Recycling 234

Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Campaigners accuse supermarkets of 'treading water' on plastic pollution, while pressure builds on MPs to accept amendmends to Environment Bill that would see the UK adopt legally-binding plastics reduction targets. Instead, we are looking at a relatively static picture which represents a drop in the ocean of tackling plastic pollution.

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Plastics Packaging Pollution Waste 89

Charged

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019, Minnesota announced plans to join the 14 states that enforce their own strict vehicle emissions standards. Now an administrative law judge has given the proposed policy a green light, ruling that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) can move forward with plans to adopt the Clean Cars Minnesota program.

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Pollution Law Health Policy 126

Front And Centered

MAY 15, 2019

To bring us closer to that future, we pursued four priorities in the 2019 legislative session. Once this task force issues its recommendations, we will return to the Legislature to implement recommendations, ensuring environmental justice is fully embedded in our laws. Clean and affordable electricity for all. This policy, which Gov.

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Law Pollution Health Education 75

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. The solutions to this major source of pollution have been known for quite a while, said David Spence, a business professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

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Methane Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date.

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Law Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 85

Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores. At least a million seabirds are killed annually by plastic pollution, while estimates suggest there are around 270,000 metric tonnes of plastic now clogging the world's ocean.

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Plastics Pollution Government Waste 79

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sam also accompanied SEPA staff to a non-compliant site and on a site visit to a legitimate waste operator to see how businesses should be operating to stay within the law and discovers how criminals undercutting these types of businesses can impact on the industry. report, or call 0800 80 70 60.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 245

Charged

JANUARY 24, 2025

After several years of planning, the Port Authority replaced its inter-terminal diesel-powered bus fleet in 2019 not only at JFK but also at LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports, with 36 battery-operated Proterra Catalyst E2 Electric shuttle buses.

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Electricity Health Electric vehicle Transportation 111

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds. Farage also has a history of denying climate science and attacking green policies.

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Climate change Law Global warming Pollution 145

Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Xiaotong Zheng, a meteorologist at the Ocean University of China, and international colleagues argue that this extraordinary heating is the result of a dramatic cleanup of Chinese air pollution. The idea that cleaning up air pollution can worsen atmospheric warming sounds counterintuitive. million tons in 2013 to 2.4

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Pollution Cooling North America Global warming 82

Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. A Regenerative Economy.

Building Energy Monitoring 71

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 71

GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers. Moreover, under the laws of the state of Delaware, where 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies (and many smaller ones, including GreenBiz Group) are registered, corporate directors still have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders.

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Politics Sustainability Ethics Fashion 316

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. First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. We are focused on safety for human health. On the ground.

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Ethics Africa Health Organic 404

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.

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Fossil fuels Ocean acidification North America Pollution 138

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.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Law 145

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Old Eldon Brickworks in Eldon, Bishop Auckland: involving Waldron – as a director of Falcons Two Ltd – who failed to comply with an enforcement notice and kept waste in a manner likely to cause pollution. But after a fall out between the defendants, Hepburn set up Greenology (Liverton) Ltd, which took over the site in February 2019.

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Waste Waste Plastics Law 147

Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Defeat devices consist of hardware and/or software that bypass pollution sensors, allowing vehicles to pass emissions inspections while still emitting high levels of smog-causing pollutants such as nitrogen oxide. Cummins said that it had “seen no evidence that anyone acted in bad faith and does not admit wrongdoing.”

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Pollution Law Policy Government 98

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. ClientEarth lawyer Katie Nield decried the fact that there was “no legally binding commitment to meet WHO air pollution standards by 2030 in the Bill.”

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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Carbon Pollution Law Climate change 98

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Despite its long-time leadership in wind and solar energy, Germany still had 44 gigawatts of coal plants running at the end of 2019, and parts of the country remain economically reliant on coal. The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate.

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Law Carbon-negative Natural gas Europe 130

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Danish Crown relaunched its website in 2019, pledging to set “a new direction towards a more sustainable future” with a “new brand and narrative” designed to “make it clearer to customers and consumers that Danish Crown has started this transformation.”. Jan Dutkiewicz, Policy Fellow, Harvard Law School. Meat Industry Playbook.

Pollution 98

Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Front And Centered

JANUARY 21, 2021

Held between October 2019-September 2020, these conversations reflect the voice of communities most burdened by pollution as a result of their race, health, wealth, and where they live, among other key factors. The HEAL Act aims to make EJ the priority of state environmental laws and programs. Want to find out more?

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Law Pollution Climate change Policy 80

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Dr Steve Mahon, CEO of Mura Technology, said: “We are at the tipping point of an environmental catastrophe – it’s time to seize the initiative and put an end to plastic pollution across the world. i) WRAP – Plastics Market Situation Report 2019. (ii) Illustration of the planned Renew ELP Advancing Recycling site in Teeside.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 219

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

James Parish Council steered polluting facilities into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi River. As a result, Black residents there are forced to breathe in more pollution and face a higher risk of related health problems, according to the suit filed by Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St.

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Government Pollution Plastics Health 98

Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Up to 600,000 cars sold to UK drivers over a 10-year period may have been installed with defeat devices, according to law firm fronting mass claim. A Vauxhall spokesperson rejected Vauxhall Pay Up's allegations and insisted its vehicles complied with the law. Our vehicles meet the applicable regulations.".

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Law Pollution 95

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. The Act also requires the Government to develop a Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, to be presented to parliament in September 2022, setting out how they’re going to stop sewage pollution. Map reference.

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Pollution Agriculture Government Law 264

Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt,” the company said in its recent annual report. TWh as of 2019, equal to that of Belgium. Now Tesla has purchased $1.5

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Carbon Blockchain Electricity Law 116

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Canadian environmental organizations welcomed the news, by and large calling it a much needed cap on pollution. The draft regulations, which are now proceeding through their public consultation phase, aim to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector at 35 percent below 2019 levels by 2030.

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Law Global warming Government Fossil fuels 114

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Lord Moynihan donated £53,000 to Liz Truss in 2022, and £100,000 to Boris Johnson in 2019. percent (£1.8

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 145