Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. The Big Stories of 2021. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Here we go. Business defends democracy.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. Advance Just Climate Investments and Prevent Pollution Trading Schemes. Transition to renewable resources.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thu, 02/04/2021 - 02:11. His 2021 letter to CEOs mentions "accelerate" eight times. The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030. First, asking for company ESG data is entry-level stuff in 2021. Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder.

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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. degrees C, with 0.4 million tons in 2013 to 2.4

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company took in construction, demolition and household waste in rented premises in Maypole Crescent on the Darent Industrial Estate for 11 months across 2021 and 2022. Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Water company sentenced for polluting a watercourse in Bradford with unauthorised sewage discharges in 2018. for polluting a Bradford watercourse and breaching environmental law following a successful prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.6m On top of the £1.6m

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A major investigation into the management of wastewater treatment works in England was announced by the EA and Ofwat in November 2021, at the same time as a new Environment Act became law. Additional stages can be added to the process train to remove pollutants such as phosphorous where required by a permit.

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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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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Norilsk, the world’s most northern city, has been dubbed one of the world’s most polluted cities by experts. The small city of about 176,000 started experiencing its pollution during the early days of the Soviet Union. This single company has been blamed for the pollution affecting the city.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In 2021 alone, water companies discharged sewage into English rivers more than 370,000 times. A chemical cocktail of sewage, agricultural waste and plastic is polluting our river systems. We are inevitably disappointed that the government rejected some of our recommendations, most notably on pollution from intensive poultry farms.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. And President Biden has a goal of creating a 100 percent carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, which will help the US keep commitments it made under the Paris climate agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The report directs the agency to review its rules, as required by the Clean Air Act, for both of these carcinogenic air pollutants, which newer scientific evidence has found raise the cancer risk for people living near facilities emitting them. John the Baptist Parish — has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air pollution.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

Speaker Brittany Kendrick started out with a powerful reminder about the devastating impact of the February 2021 winter storm in Texas – disrupting everyday life and uncovering systemic failure not only through the widely reported rolling blackouts, but through the collapse of the water supply system. Sign up now! Not yet a member?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Scale of the US Plastic Waste Problem The United States is projected to generate 220 million tons of plastic waste in 2024, a 7.11% increase from 2021. Over a third of this waste is expected to be mishandled, contributing significantly to global plastic pollution. Geyer R, Jambeck JR, Law KL. With only 19.8%

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Environmental monitoring Elementis constantly aims to design better products that use less resources and create less pollution. A water treatment plant was built at the Sotkamo facility in 2021, using lime to raise the pH of site wastewaters and remove contaminants such as metals.

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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. This led to a major fire at the site in August 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Environment Act 2021 provides for the establishment of an independent public body to oversee the government’s environmental actions. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) announced yesterday it has been legally established, following the passage of the Environment Act 2021 last week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Levy was selected to sit on Louisiana’s Oilfield Site Restoration Commission in 2021 because of his knowledge of the oil and gas industry.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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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.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rather than requiring California and Québec to meet Washington standards, Ecology this week announced it is prepared to offer up legislation this coming session that would weaken the Washington law. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

New analysis suggests three million working days a year are lost to air pollution. The research, conducted by CBI Economics and funded by the Clean Air Fund, suggests three million working days a year are currently lost due to the impact of air pollution on public health.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, painted a stark picture of our world. Beyond the issue of pollution, the production of virgin hydrocarbon-based polymers is carbon-intensive due to the extraction and refining of crude oil.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

While that might seem like a no-brainer to some, it’s a finding that could have big implications for lawsuits seeking to hold polluters accountable for disaster damages. We’re citing the hell out of it,” said Pat Parenteau, a law professor at Vermont Law School.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2021

In the draft law, the panel of 12 lawyers defined ecocide as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts”. A team of lawyers published its proposed definition of ‘ecocide’ on June 22, 2021.

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