GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

According to a news release from the National Institutes of Health on March 17, these respiratory droplets seem to be detectable in the air for as long as three hours. Again, as the building is unoccupied, it might be the ideal time to do a survey and explore or fix issues as there would be little disruption to workflow. Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

This challenge is associated with large health effects – effects that will continue to menace public health in the future”. The effect of poor air quality on the health and wellbeing of people is well documented. We know that air quality has a significant impact from both a sociological and health perspective.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I've linked to a number of those below. To make matters worse, inequities in health care result in black communities paying almost twice as much in premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. . It pertains to surviving and being able to breathe clean air.".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Created by CaBA partners including Defra, the Environment Agency, Natural England, Water Companies, Ofwat, and eNGOs, the strategy outlines the compendium of current issues threatening chalk streams in England and what must be done to protect the three key indicators of ecological health: water quantity; water quality; and physical habitats.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

The document lays out a series of recommendations to help tackle the problem of sediment buildup at dams and weirs across the country. While hydropower is vital for meeting climate change targets, care must be taken to minimise its impacts on river health and ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s. Franta and I recently discussed these key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry. Document 1: 1959.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Compiled by a multidisciplinary group of experts – including engineers, ecologists, medics, and air quality analysts – the document provides a detailed rundown on topics such as what happens to tyres when we drive, what kind of particles are produced, where they end up, and the implications for health and the environment.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 5, 2023

As industry fights to discredit current research on health impacts of gas stoves, newly revealed documents show it was a concern five decades ago. The post Gas industry knew about air pollution problems from stoves in early 1970s appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A relevant set of guidelines is HSG51, issued by the Health and Safety Executive. A lengthy document, he says, but you need to understand it. In his experience most people are not aware of the guidelines and directives that cover correct handling and storage of these materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

” The group is a well established health and safety and environmental management training provider, with over 90 years experience of delivering high quality training worldwide. With environmental issues at the forefront of media attention, and economic uncertainty looming, businesses must adopt sustainable approaches.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The impacts would be similar to the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, “in terms of level of releases and resulting damages to the environment, health, and safety,” the Multnomah County report concluded. Portland finally had leverage over the oil-by-rail operations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

It’s something that I hope companies take to heart," said Boma Brown-West, senior manager of consumer health at EDF+Business. . Research documents that the chemical plants that produce the chemicals used in everyday products are often sited in communities of color, in areas some call sacrifice zones.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To improve the life-cycle footprint of solar panels, big data tools can help manufacturers embed human health and environmental criteria into the front end of the design phase of materials and products. Some of these chemistries are unsafe for the environment and human health. Using big data and AI to accelerate material discovery .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Plastic is now pouring into the natural world at a rate of one garbage truck a minute, creating a crisis for wildlife, the climate and public health. Only in 2017, following the leak of internal documents, did Coca-Cola finally make a U-turn in its opposition to DRS in Scotland. Capitalising on the COVID-19 crisis. Recommendations.

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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). Air pollution does not just cause health problems, it also presents a significant social and economic burden.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

While there is no question that addressing public health consequences is the priority, the nature of the equally crucial economic recovery effort raises some interrogations. As the pandemic forces us to adapt our daily lives in ways we would not have imagined, it also challenges us to rethink the systems that underpin the economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Early December saw the 70th anniversary, and a time for reflection and stock-taking by environmental health experts, including a fascinating lecture by Dr Ian Mudway of Gresham College. It didn’t become the principal fuel of London until the 1600s, and documents of the period record the changes it brought. Why did it happen?

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Grist

APRIL 16, 2024

According to Derek Manzello, coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program, scientists have documented significant coral bleaching across every major ocean since early last year. Die-off of coral threatens not only the health of marine ecosystems, but also the livelihood and food security for people who depend on them.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A global team of researchers has documented the seemingly pervasive impacts of noise on marine animals and ecosystems and identified actions to return to the soundtrack of the healthy ocean. Yet, current frameworks to improve ocean health ignore the need to mitigate noise as a pre-requisite for a healthy ocean.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This entails annual port state control examinations of around 10,000 foreign-flagged vessels, including reviews of vessel documentation and visual monitoring of the BWTS condition and operation enforced by the US Coast Guard (USCG).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Associate Professor Yuming Guo from Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, said as there’s no threshold for the association between particulate matter (PM) and mortality, even low levels of air pollution can increase the risk of death. Given the extensive evidence on their health impacts, PM10 and PM2.5

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Grist

JULY 5, 2022

The 134 cases documented in the U.S. Tick researchers have differing opinions on how serious of a public health threat Powassan is at the moment. There’s potential for it to become a major public health hazard.” Lack of funding for tick-borne illnesses is an issue the Minnesota Department of Health has run into.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

EVs are also expected to deliver benefits in terms of human health, but this has not been extensively studied. Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

The half of the global population without access to essential health services. And amidst the current health and socio-economic crises brought on by COVID-19, additional polling found that the pandemic had exacerbated the sense of social injustice. Nearly half of the global workforce in the informal sector, totaling 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority. These updates resulted in a total methane emission estimate more than five times larger than reported emissions.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2024

This week, a climate and health researcher published a commentary in the journal Nature Medicine that takes the McMichael standard to its logical conclusion. It doesn’t look at the mental health consequences of extreme heat and extreme weather and the related increase in suicides that have been documented in recent years. “At

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Image credit: Kerckweb / Shutterstock.com Scotland’s environmental regulator has issued a civil penalty of £75,000 to a health food supplements manufacturer for failing to provide a leakage detection system on equipment containing powerful greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The value of biophilic design has been well documented by studies showing the physiological and psychological benefits of reconnecting humans with nature. The experience of space and place refers to spatial features and characteristics of the natural environment that have advanced human health and wellbeing. Credit: Sempergreen.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

While many previous reports had documented the buildup of plastic bottles and bags in the natural environment, much less attention had been paid to what the scientists dubbed “microplastics.” While Thompson’s 2004 paper documented small fragments of acrylic, nylon, and polyester in coastal environments around the U.K.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 8, 2024

This marks the first-time fibreglass or glass reinforced plastic (GRP) particles have been found entering the ‘food chain’ and raises urgent environmental and health concerns, says the group behind the research. This study is the first of its kind to document such extensive contamination in natural bivalve populations.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Two years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch Shell, like ExxonMobil, knew about climate dangers decades ago, the oil giant released its latest annual report outlining its business strategy and approach to addressing climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

Following the 14 July hearing he was sentenced to a total of 32 months in prison, of which he will serve half, after pleading guilty to charges of running a waste facility without a permit, and for disposing of waste material, namely asbestos, in a manner likely to harm the environment or human health. to remediate the site.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Newsweek , in partnership with the Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit that evaluates health care quality, compiles and publishes an ongoing series of ratings for healthcare facilities and products. Its efficacy is documented by several independent scientific laboratories, including Eurofins, Norconsult, and Oslo University Hospital.

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