Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Drainage and wastewater expert Lanes Group writes We are so pleased with the success of Unblocktober 2022, and the efforts that people made to change their habits and help the environment. On a wider scale, unhealthy drains can lead to huge issues for the environment as a whole, from wet wipe islands to microplastics and pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

These targets need to be laid as draft Statutory Instruments by 31 October 2022, says the consultation document , and will come into force once approved by Parliament. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m This change in approach will help us in the pursuit of the targets we are setting under the Environment Act.’”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

How might the water industry be better regulated to reduce the sewage pollution that floods waterways in England and Wales? The report identified perceived failings on Ofwat’s part, in not holding water companies sufficiently to account for environmental pollution through penalties and prosecution.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

million tonnes in 2022. million tonnes CO2 of emissions in 2022. Woody biomass generated less than 5% of power in 2022, but accounted for a fifth of UK power sector emissions. New analysis from energy think tank Ember shows that the wood-burning Drax power station is the UK’s largest source of CO2 emissions at 12.1

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, we can add air pollution to the list of threats. Our research from 2022 revealed that when exposed to two common air pollutants at concentrations within EU air quality limits , the visits of pollinating insects to flowers plummeted by as much as 90%. We were surprised by what we found. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

A new report attempts to provide a diagnostic of the scale of the ocean pollution challenge facing humanity. The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical pollution in the ocean has been prodeuced by Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.

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TechXplore

JUNE 5, 2024

In the United States, long-haul trucks moved 71% of all freight in 2022. But those long-haul trucks are heavy polluters, especially of the carbon emissions that threaten the global climate. Environmental Protection Agency estimates, in 2022 more than 3% of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions came from long-haul trucks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. The Conservative Party has regularly accepted donations from polluting interests and climate science deniers , worth £3.5 million in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Launched in November 2022, and funded by a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the project examined the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area. Our findings in Sandwell emphasise the urgency of addressing this issue.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That finding “shook me up a lot, I was really distraught,” said Win Cowger, a researcher at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research and the study’s lead author. More than 1 in 10 of the pieces came from Coca-Cola, the top polluter by a significant margin.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Robert Noyes, Fossil Free Parliament campaigner, told DeSmog that the New Statesman was “selling its readers short” by accepting sponsorship from polluting companies and their lobbyists. It pollutes our politics and dilutes their agenda… Climate wrecking sponsors have got to go.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

The group’s intervention comes as new data shows that, although Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations decreased marginally between 2021 and 2022, air pollution remains at illegal and unsafe levels in areas across the country. Post-pandemic progress on air pollution reduction nationally is now plateauing.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Voluntary regulations for burning wood and coal to heat homes could help tackle impact on air pollution While traffic and industry have been the focus of air pollution controls for the past two decades , the old issue of pollution from home heating has crept up again. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Pollution is also often higher in lower-income areas. The significant drop in traffic will have had a positive impact, but traffic needs to fall still further for there to be a major difference in overall pollution given this comes from many sources in a major city like London.

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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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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. With combined revenues of $67 billion in 2022, the six firms dominate the communications industry, and have hundreds of subsidiary agencies around the world. Coleman Jr.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

The European FOG Summit 2022 will have a strong focus on foodservice and commercial kitchens, to further explore how FOG can be removed at source before it enters the wastewater system. Taking place at Titanic Hotel, Stanley Dock, Liverpool, UK, on 18 & 19 October 2022, event partners will be Southern Water and United Utilities.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

If only the governing United Conservative Party applied those laudable principles to oil sands companies that repeatedly flout legal requirements not to pollute waterways, air and land. This dangerous delay from May 2022 to February 2023 occurred despite the UCPs stated commitment to prioritize public safety when dealing with violators.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Four companies — including BP and Shell — who say Venture Global hasn’t delivered on its long-term contracts have filed for arbitration, and critics are asking if the firm is profiting from the polluting plant. to Europe in 2022 and 2023, according to the company. I worked with chemical companies. This is monkey business.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

A road sign in Edenfield, Manchester, alerts road users to the new Clean Air Zone which will operate from 30 May 2022. Charges for driving some higher polluting commercial vehicles in the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone had been due to go live from 30 May 2022 but that will now not happen.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. million has been pledged to 44 UK universities by 32 oil, coal and gas companies since 2022 in the form of research agreements, tuition fees, scholarships, grants, and consulting fees. This would potentially remove £17.7

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations. Yet Reform’s official register of donations reveals the party is bankrolled by rich businessmen who reject climate science or make money from polluting industries.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

The researchers at Bloomberg New Energy Finance predict there will be 500 models of EVs available by 2022, and 28 percent of new vehicle sales globally will be electric by 2030. Under the bill SB 1014, Lyft and Uber are required to submit electrification plans at the beginning of 2022, with the program beginning in 2023.

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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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Charged

MARCH 3, 2023

The market share of plug-in vehicles rose from 65 percent in 2021 to 80 percent in 2022. This doesn’t seem to be a problem in Norway—as reported by the Norwegian Road Federation , the 10 top-selling cars in 2022 were all BEVs: Tesla Model Y (17,356 units sold) Volkswagen ID.4 The trend of steady electrification continued last year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

WPP, the world’s largest advertising group, led the list with 79 contracts with major polluters such as Saudi Aramco , Shell , Exxon , TotalEnergies , and BP. Edelman , the world’s largest privately-owned public relations firm, has 11 contracts with major polluters, according to the report. Washington, D.C.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

3 million working days a year lost to air pollution under current targets, says report. The report also says that reducing pollution to WHO levels could prevent 17,000 premature deaths each year of people of working age across the UK, who are dying nearly 12 (11.8) Its findings include a reported £1.6 The WHO guidelines for PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Farmer, Mr John Price of Day House Farm, Kingsland, was charged with a number of offences, including failing to stop agricultural pollution from entering the river and removing trees and vegetation from the banks, and re-profiling river banks; and carrying out work without consents in November 2020 and December 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Record hot temperatures in the UK over the summer caused significant changes to the levels of harmful pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter, prompting a number of novel observations by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). A field of ripened wheat in Drinkstone, Suffolk, during the July 2022 heatwave.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

All efforts must be devoted in the coming months to secure this long-awaited treaty in 2022; a goal expressed by many governments that committed to the High Ambition Coalition.”. Ministers and heads of state need to step up ahead of the next round of negotiations to ensure we land the strong treaty we need in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Synthetic and natural microfibres from plastic pollution, the textile industry and fishing activities have increased dramatically in the environment, becoming the most common type of particles in the ocean. The study also raises the question of the environmental risk of microfibres.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our research shows that the most common disposal methods may end up leading to further environmental pollution.” This makes exposure to chemical pollutants in freshwater fish a textbook case of environmental injustice. Industrial pollution EWG estimates there may be more than 40,000 industrial polluters of PFAS in the US.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

The EU’s green revolution can only happen if there are far fewer polluting vehicles, but the challenge is huge”, said Pietro Russo, the ECA member who led the audit. “A And lastly, affordability is crucial: given the higher upfront costs of electric cars, consumers may prefer to keep their old polluting vehicles for longer.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

AQMesh – the most proven range of small sensor air quality monitoring stations – is being offered in a package tailored specifically to local councils to not only help answer this very important question but also to make the most of any budgets dedicated to tackling air pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The government needs to make an immediate decision on banning plastic in wet wipes in order to help tackle this sewage-based pollution ending up in the River Thames, environmental charity Thames21 has urged. The government concluded its consultation on single-use plastics, including the issue of banning plastic in wet wipes in February 2022.

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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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