DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

His new book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World , which comes out June 6, tells the story of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire in horrific, page-turning detail. I know from researching this book that people really suffer and they’re deeply wounded by the experience of evacuating from a wildfire. and Canada.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Pollution had pushed its way into the national conversation. It was not in our DNA to be this wasteful,” said Jackie Nuñez, the advocacy program manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a communications nonprofit. “We Elmore recounts in the book Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

David George Haskell, a biologist and author of the book Sounds Wild and Broken, said he experiences the diminished soundscape as a “very thin, worn cloth,” comparing the richness of an untrammeled soundscape to the texture of thickly woven tapestry. “It These three policies still form the backbone of federal environmental law.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

In late April, California attorney general Rob Bonta launched an investigation into ExxonMobil for its role in exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis. A report out last year from the Mindaroo Foundation found that just 100 companies produce 90 percent of the world’s plastic pollution. And it doesn’t work by design.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2023

Just this week, the Delegated Legislation Committee - an obscure grouping of MPs brought together to debate and agree secondary legislation relating, in this instance, to six environmental targets, ranging from air pollution to marine quality, from waste to biodiversity. People and planet are symbiotically connected.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. About half of the pollution from cement comes from the fuel to heat the ovens. Increasingly, this may be the law. These could be fly ash, slag or silica materials.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. billion MVP is now $2.5 He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org,

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Air pollution kills 40,000 in the UK each year. The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. This means, when businesses buy fossil fuel motors, they are polluting and losing money. One way or another, the principles of Green Recovery Act will be put into law.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

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.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. They help take cars off the road with around a quarter of e-scooter trips replacing a car journey - cutting congestion and reducing air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The incident offers a rare window into some of the inner workings of private oil companies while also revealing how taxpayers can wind up paying enormous subsidies to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations that generate far more climate-altering pollution than they prevent. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Earthhour occurs on the 27th of March. March 9th 2021 24 Retweets 34 Likes.

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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

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And often the same account leads on the tobacco campaigns were also account leads for oil companies,” Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, explained to journalist Amy Westervelt in an episode of the Drilled podcast. Credit: Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The government also backed last year's Global Biodiversity Framework, which similarly commits to reverse nature decline at the global level, and has passed a new Environment Act that incorporates a suite of legally-binding targets covering water quality, air pollution, habitats, and other areas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis also found that a significant minority of adverts were dedicated to promoting highly polluting vehicles. SUVs Booming.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflective particles already make their way into the atmosphere (both from aerosol pollution and volcanic dust and ash ), purposefully altering the skies already pumped full of carbon dioxide seems misguided at best — and disastrous at worst.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Issues that have long been avoided such as taxes, CEO pay, and corruption — some of the “elephants in the room” that my co-author, Paul Polman, and I talk about in our book Net Positive — will hit boardrooms and C-suites.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

If deciding to specialise further, be sure to head out with an expert forager – or at the very least ensure you have consulted reputable books, or other resources, to help with identification. Also bear in mind that wild foods can be polluted by human activity. Public byways through farms or agricultural land. Woodlands or forests.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I still remember a school lesson where the concept of polluting externalities and market failures were explained, before the class then quickly moved on to a curriculum which largely glossed over how almost everything we were being taught was basically broken by these unaccounted for external factors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

Remember, there were moments in history where it was generally acceptable to use slave labor or children in supply chains, to wink at rampant sexual harassment in offices, and to freely dump pollution in rivers and the air. Morals changed, and then laws. This post first appeared in HBR here ). Follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewWinston.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Clark is a long-term critic of net zero policies, and earlier this year published a book on the subject: ‘Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet)’. A number of the most prolific Telegraph columnists also held direct links to climate denial groups, the research found.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Unless properly decommissioned, unplugged oil and gas wells can continue to leak cancer-causing chemicals and the powerful climate pollutant methane. The law was passed, in part, to hold fossil fuels companies accountable for their plugging obligation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero. This is a legitimate concern given the government's history of flip-flopping on climate policy,but is not a criticism that should solely be levied against a carbon tax, nor used to put a nail in its coffin.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In response, the UK has previously said it "will not agree to any obligations for our laws to be aligned with the EU's" and its institutions, putting it at odds with the EU which has continued to view a level playing field on standards as a red line for a free trade deal with such a close neighbour.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

From a resource depletion perspective, orbital space can be thought of as an environment that is getting polluted by debris creation events. Source: European Space Agency The problem with this pollution is that not all debris is trackable. Lab-simulated hypervelocity impact. NASA’s Atlantis space shuttle on its 19th mission to the ISS.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

It also criticised the previous government for "stop-start strategies", which it said could undermine confidence for business, investors, and consumers in committing to measures which could reduce CO2 pollution. A top-down strategy from government won't deliver on its own," she stressed.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I recently finished the book Lunch with Lucy – the author/founder sold her company for $40 million. It is interesting that you opted for Law school vs Business school for your advanced degree. Law school is safe and stable. . Pepperdine for Law School. She focused her entire career on the notion that employees are first.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Though it is hard to link the exact source of the particulate matter and NOx emissions - cars and other industries also pollute - it is a fact that outdoor air pollution is a major cause of death and disease globally. But the pollution caused by burning marine fuels are directly linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

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