DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The two cars have been driving London’s streets, measuring air pollution, since 2018. Advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) together with Mayor Sadiq Khan have released the second wave of data from Breathe London , an ambitious collaborative project to measure and map air pollution across the capital.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We

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Econaur

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delhi’s persistent struggle with air pollution has been making headlines, with the air quality index (AQI) hitting alarming levels. While various factors contribute to this crisis, buildings emerge as a significant contributor, accounting for nearly 70% of the pollution, according to the World Health Organization.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Core to this strategy is keeping the benefit of building electrification in these communities — creating jobs, improving health and saving households money. From a cost perspective, electrification will slash energy bills in new construction and in many retrofits today. Sponsored Article. Image by Shutterstock/Michael Vi.

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Charged

JANUARY 24, 2025

Construction of the massive array, consisting of more than 13,000 solar panels on the terminals roof, began in 2024. Health issues – Ramp workers and others who work airside are constantly exposed to toxic emissions, and many face health issues as a result, Castaldy said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. The BBC StoryWorks articles didn’t provide information about the company’s existing polluting activities, or the global need to rapidly scale-down oil, gas, and coal production.

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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. Venture Global asked state regulators for a hearing to fight potential fines for air pollution violations.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Healthy ecosystems provide stability for businesses by mitigating risks such as flooding and droughts and filtering pollutants from the air and water; nature provides the stability necessary for business. Instead, reports highlight key skills shortages in the construction industry and material shortages as possible culprits.

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 7, 2020

Construction projects are carbon-positive: Strict carbon planning and management is key. Carbon and Construction carbons are not understood. Reduce : seek to reduce carbon through local material and supplier procurement and a focus on construction travel and transport, carbon productivity and construction efficiency ….

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

In recent months, concerns about nutrient pollution from intensive chicken units, livestock farming and from sewage have escalated on both sides of the Welsh-English border, with phosphate and other pollutants fuelling algal blooms that turn the river into ‘pea soup’.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Mark Nelson’s address will reflect on his experiences in the early 1990s Biosphere 2 project in the Arizona desert, in which he was responsible for managing a constructed wetland marsh recycling system. Biosphere 2 contained a rainforest, fog desert, freshwater and mangrove marsh and mini ocean with a coral reef.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. This already happens with materials that don’t have plastics in them.)

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

After decades of neglect, the result of land pollution has reached a level of significance which is now impossible to ignore. Many sites around the world now pose a major hazard for new construction operations and have created a huge clean-up conundrum.

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Fairsnape

MAY 15, 2020

As construction along with other sectors emerges from varying degrees of Corona lockdown we have an opportunity, a rare opportunity and the only one we may have in our life times to shape the next normal. What then, for construction and the built environment. What does this new landscape mean to construction targets.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Issues of health, the working poor and racial justice are making people uncomfortable, and with the supply chain disruption with the closing of meatpacking cesspools, Jonathan Safran Foer writes, "Our hand has been reaching for the doorknob for the last few years. Founder and CEO, Hera Health Solutions; Memphis. I moved from the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 12, 2020

Here are some examples of how satellite data continues to be used to monitor changes and global events—despite limiting COVID-19 travel and health restrictions. NK News investigated the barge using Planet data, showing a series of Planet stories and images in a recent report depicting construction over time. Pollution Pervades.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 21, 2022

A building is considered sustainable/green because of its design, construction, and operational characteristics. The main challenges with building sustainability involve reducing overall impact to human health the and the environment. Reducing emissions, pollution, and environmental degradation. Construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Similarly, nothing was mentioned about NO2, or what new powers might be granted to local authorities to strengthen their ability to enforce air pollution standards – something that had also been promised prior to the Bill’s publication. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity.

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Grist

JANUARY 15, 2020

Communities and government agencies spend millions of dollars on cleanup every year, but the problem is so pervasive and expensive that many streams remain polluted. At Sunday Creek, a broad group of locals have found a way to help foot the clean-up bill: by turning mine pollution into eye-catching paints. Department of Interior.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Earlier this month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that indoor gas stoves emitted harmful pollution. The CPSC is considering restrictions on gas stoves, including possible bans in new residential construction. Several studies claim that the use of gas can cause respiratory illness.

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The City Fix

JULY 16, 2024

In the stylish Grünerløkka neighborhood in Oslo, construction workers are busy rehabilitating Sophies Minde, an old medical clinic, into a new nursery school and maternal health center. Tidy piles of building materials along the perimeter of the construction site wait.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 High-Pollution Industries Aviation entrepreneur Christopher Harborne donated the largest total sum to the Conservatives in 2022, gifting £1.5 million to the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can reveal.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. It’s bringing home the idea of how fragile our habitat is and how sacred our health is. . Nicole Pamani. Fri, 07/17/2020 - 00:15. We are raising the bar.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

As the world went into lockdown, ESG conversations shifted from the E to the S, or social — how companies were responding to COVID-19 in terms of employee health and welfare. That connection between climate, the environment, people and health.". Relentless competition may be giving way to constructive collaboration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Raft of new studies underscore the myriad adverse impacts of the UK's chronic air pollution, but also make clear that the solutions - including shifting away from fossil fuel cars - are quickly ramping up. and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on the development of working memory.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2023

license ) Unite claims ExxonMobil and contractors failing in ‘legal duty’ to protect and pay workers Around 200 members of Unite the union had withdrawn their labour over health and safety concerns at ExxonMobil’s petrochemical plant in Mossmorran, the union reported on 17 August.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

Oikocredit, Triodos IM, and EDFI ElectriFI are acting as the construction financiers for the transaction, providing $9m of financing for the construction phase of the project. Once operational, CBEA will purchase the portfolio, becoming the long-term owner of the systems and providing the construction financiers with an exit.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

That persistent reliance on fossil fuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. Yes, including public health and safety. A growing body of research is documenting the danger posed by indoor air pollution in homes with gas stoves. Are there other benefits to electrifying buildings?

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Covid-19 could turbocharge the construction sector's adoption of electrified equipment in order to cut carbon and pollution, according to industry-backed report. Recovery from Covid-19 could accelerate the adoption of technology to help speed up construction processes.". Times of crisis can often lead to rapid change.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

More remains to be done, it said, and our growing understanding of the effects of air pollution on human health should inform further progress. The review suggested there now needs to be more inclusion of other pollution sources, such as agriculture and domestic combustion.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The government’s failure to protect people from exposure to hazardous air in Punjab risks violating their human rights to life and health, Amnesty International said on 30 October. Air pollution and the climate crisis are intricately linked. Smog near the India-Pakistan border.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION. The industry is moving toward sustainable construction. If you are a General Contractor, it’s important you provide sustainable construction and renovation options to your customers. Sustainable Home Design and Sustainable Construction Materials. Energy Usage and Electricity. Recycled Steel.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Heating electrification is picking up steam in Europe and parts of Asia as decarbonization and pollution-reduction efforts are tipping the scales. As DER penetration grows, regulation and market constructs are evolving to accommodate these resources at scale. Regulatory reform and market design evolution.

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