DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

But Marra, a forest pathologist at the Experiment Station with a PhD in plant pathology from Cornell University, has documented from studying his fallen trees that internal decay has the capacity to significantly reduce the amount of carbon stored within. Both processes are necessary to fine-tune each other’s readings.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The certification can be relevant to all organizations , regardless of their size, location, or industry and can help these businesses save money by reducing their water and energy consumption and by limiting what waste is sent to local landfills. Soil contamination. Energy and materials consumption reduction . Transportation.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. Tip #6 – Go completely paperless : Instead of using paper documents, communicate through email, instant messenger chat, via video meetings, and save everything safely in the cloud. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. Green America uses the power of consumer choice and business practices to help build an economy that values people, planet, and peace over profit. Zero Energy Certification. GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATIONS.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Just a week earlier, Louisiana state regulators approved a preliminary air permit for a proposed renewable diesel unit at a refinery run by the pipeline firm’s parent company, PBF Energy. To date, no photos documenting the scale of the spill or serious impacts to wildlife have been made public. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The well-documented retreat of mountain glaciers will have severe ecological and societal costs as the shift to a post-glacial landscape represents one of the largest and fastest ongoing ecosystem changes. Cumulatively, these articles urge further study and monitoring of current climate adaptation strategies at the base of mountain glaciers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2024

Part 2: Goals and KPIs – This section documents your current baseline in terms of your eco profile which includes your energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and overall eco score. Every industry and every business uses resources and energy differently. Water – How much water do we use?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I always said if I was going to move away from the water I wasn’t going to move into it,” quipped Chris Brunet, who went ahead and signed the last of the documents at the closing. As a witness for Brunet, he realized there was only one set of documents to sign at the closing. Historically, signing documents provided by the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The certification can be relevant to all organizations , regardless of their size, location, or industry and can help these businesses save money by reducing their water and energy consumption and by limiting what waste is sent to local landfills. Soil contamination. Energy and materials consumption reduction . Transportation.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the power of Planet satellite imagery with Amazon SageMaker’s geospatial capabilities. They could also be the changes in soil moisture, soil temperature, and biomass, derived from the different spectral index of satellite data, for deeper crop health analysis.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. It is well documented and well remembered by the investment community. Why Climate Intelligence? Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

To begin with, the government would need to introduce targets that deliver improvements in four key priority areas, including air quality, water quality, nature and resource efficiency - although this could be broadened over time to other key areas such as soils. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

In order to oversee these stricter targets, the government, the Environment Agency, and regulator Ofwat plan to continue expanding the frequency and duration of their monitoring of sewage discharges, which has risen from around five per cent in 2016 to almost 90 per cent last year, it said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nick Mabey, chief executive of climate and energy think tank E3G, said: "This ground-breaking report has revealed that a five-fold increase in finance is needed to get the UK on track to net-zero, rising from £10bn to £50bn a year. The Treasury must urgently set out a detailed finance plan to make it happen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs. Monitor and evaluate the plan. Monitor and evaluate the policy to ensure it’s meeting the needs of your employees and your business. Monitor participation rates, and assess employee feedback.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. Credit: Marco Kaltofen. The company has not replied to questions. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Raising Red Flags.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

The UK now has a Critical Minerals Strategy , a document which sets out a broad vision for securing a steady and secure supply of minerals and metals needed to build the technologies that form the bedrock of a net zero economy, from electric vehicles to wind turbines. Reuse, recycling and energy efficiency.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

APRIL 2, 2025

4 PFAS Soil/Soil Leachate Remediation Standards. 7:26D to establish soil and soil leachate remediation standards for GenX, PFNA, PFOA, PFOS. DEPs proposal explains that this list contains contaminants that must be analyzed in all media when contaminants in an area of concern are unknown or not well documented.

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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. Both Hawaiʻi and Guam have committed to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Random soiled talking, with little thought, are better for sites like ChatRoulette and JerkMate. These stay chat roulette-type sites are higher for quick, soiled speaking as a result of video/audio sharing is the main attraction. Text-oriented websites require extra imagination and titillation over a while. It has over 2.7

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

No state agency has authority over how these wastewater pipelines are constructed, operated and monitored, not Pennsylvanias Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), or the states Public Utility Commission, and as a result there are no standards, says David Hess, who led DEP from 2001 to 2003. We just hope. Credit: U.S.

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