DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Traditional monitoring methods struggle to keep up with the modern pace of change, especially when covering large or remote areas. Planet constellations of Earth imaging satellites capture fresh data every day to monitor land use across large areas and track fast-moving developments as they unfold.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. A new lead crisis?

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

manufacturing Building a resilient supply chain Strengthening rural and Tribal access Scaling a regenerative food system These entrepreneurs join our portfolio of more than 160 companies that have collectively created over 10,000 jobs and are delivering real benefits in local communities. The Big Picture: Even a thin.5mm

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Energy transition.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking. A big focus is on building social work / public food / training in permaculture and agroforestry etc.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

OCD justified the change by saying the state had determined not all residents on the island identified as part of the Tribe, and that limiting the project to a specific tribe could be seen as contrary to HUD’s rules and federal anti-discrimination laws. But the state scrapped these plans.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

But in addition to monitoring the growth of your current plants, continue planting for late summer and fall crops. Use mulch Summer heat zaps moisture out of the soil, and many plants suffer without mulch to help them retain much-needed water. Build and install bat, butterfly, bird and bee houses.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. Deforestation.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing often became smothered in sludge. Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. Credit: Marco Kaltofen.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. It is part of a broader university effort to become a global leader in the climate and energy space.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. The company has relied heavily on a decades-old industry exemption passed in 1980 — known as the Bentsen and Bevill Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act — that classifies oil and gas waste as non-hazardous, thereby affording it little regulatory scrutiny.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We are still seeing too much pollution from sources we have known about for years: sewage, farming, industry and road-run off. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. Campaigners are right to be saying that this is not good enough.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Planet-healing fast food. Circular outdoor gear.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

If his soil could be healthier, his crop yield higher, his profit margins wider, he makes it happen. He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. Grainfill Creative.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. In its 2024 manifesto, PVV says it plans to “overhaul” European climate and energy policies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. By the time he was a young man, the petrochemical industry was moving in.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. Veolia would design, build, operate and maintain the facility under a 10-year agreement in return for more than $255 million, Antero said in 2015. In April, the District Court reduced the amount of damages.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The UN has this week published its annual Global E-waste Monitor report , revealing that at least $10bn of gold, platinum, and other precious metals were lost each year as part of the world's growing e-waste mountain. Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. New Irish government to step up climate ambitions.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” By the time he was a young man, the petrochemical industry was moving in.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Boyle, the town supervisor, said the DNR was doing everything in their limited power to help, but the company responsible is “uncooperative.” In a statement, the DNR said results from Tyco’s completed site investigation, which the agency monitors, will be used to determine the company’s responsibility.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

There is no oversight, says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania as a hydrostatic tester, a niche job in the industry that involves assuring pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and waste streams they contain. However, Green, the industry whistleblower, believes Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Big Agri vs EU Green Reform The position of Via Campesina stands in contrast to those of other powerful groups, which also attended the protest in Brussels and others across Europe. But they shouldn’t be targeting us, they should be looking at industry – and products that come in from abroad.”

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