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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. World Health Organization.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

university is almost completely funded by the agribusiness industry, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and Unearthed. According to financial commitments outlined in the documents, the Center is on track to receive nearly $3.2 A prominent animal agriculture research center at a prestigious U.S. Big Money from Big Ag.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Investigators have documented children as young as 4 — some working alongside their parents and siblings — hammering rock from walls in illegal mines, then carrying heavy loads through slippery tunnels. The organization and its members have set out to map the flows of mica, starting at the mines. School of rock.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

But a growing chorus of California legislators say that nonenforcement stance violates a groundbreaking law they fought to pass just months ago — and they, along with dozens of environmental groups, are demanding that regulators change course. They’re pointing to AB 1167, signed into law by California Gov. billion in the deal.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DeSmog documented meetings held by six MEPs from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in parliament. Around 20 percent of the MEPs’ meetings were with unregistered groups, and at least one in six meetings documented by DeSmog was not declared on the parliamentary website.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

🦴 BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the "backbone," providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. Find a checklist of required documents here.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Organizations that hold or manage large events such as conferences, business meetings, concerts, fairs, weddings, or any large get-together need to consider the impact these events have on the planet. If you’re an event planner, you should organize your events so that they impact the community, the environment, and the economy positively.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pereira and Phillips were two of at least 177 environmental and Indigenous land rights advocates killed last year, according to the non-profit organization Global Witness in its latest annual report on risks to environmental activists, while many more were threatened with violence or attacked. They would not make it back alive.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

Expediting the permitting process for geothermal Dr. Bryant Jones, Executive Director of US-based nonprofit organization Geothermal Rising (GR), provided expert testimony during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing in 12 December 2023 on a proposed amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The company goes on to boast its investments in so-called “renewable natural gas,” or gas acquired from decomposing organic matter at livestock operations and landfills. ‘A signal to the gas industry ‘ In June, the county won a procedural victory when a federal court ruled that its lawsuit could move forward in state court.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

A few months after the FTI employee was caught in the courtroom, Monsanto’s internal documents became public during the trial. The court documents also included a spreadsheet titled “ Project Spruce: Carey Gillam Book ” that detailed a sequence of specific actions the company was taking to undermine her book.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Troves of internal documents have revealed an industry-wide strategy to market unproven technologies, like carbon capture and algae biofuels, and unsubstantiated climate pledges in order to sidestep demands to phase out fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. It’s a living, integral part of your business that needs room to grow organically, adjust flexibly, and evolve to your company’s changing needs. Healthy, organic food choices.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

The Railroad Commission needs to enforce better practices upfront so that we can avoid the bankruptcy process and the orphan law process altogether.”. Her organization hopes to push the RRC toward policies that better protect taxpayers and the environment. The RRC did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. The following example shows how.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The latest study focused on Exxon because of its well-documented climate research program — which resulted in the largest public collection of global warming projections from a single company — and because of its long record of challenging climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“The plastics industry has ‘sold’ plastic recycling to the American public to sell plastic,” according to the report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for legal action to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

There’s this recognition that some spaces still need to be sacred and protected from industry,” Robin Lesko, a senior organizer with Food & Water Watch, told DeSmog. Oily sheen visible in surface water in the same location where water contaminants were documented in Deer Lakes Park. Taken March 2021. Taken March 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The hike is just one example of the links – uncovered by an October DeSmog investigation – between large farming unions and six influential MEPs who oppose nature-friendly laws, all of whom, like Dorfmann, are members of the conservative European People’s Party, or EPP. It’s part of their [Copa-Cogeca’s] strategy to deny pluralism.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A new geothermal law in El Salvador During GEOLAC 2024, the Director General of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, Daniel Alvarez, announced that El Salvador is working on a new Geothermal Law.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. And the four largest pesticide companies spent over $10.5

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Government agencies, their partners, and other organizations use these Planet technologies to detect early threats, mitigate risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve disaster preparedness. To harness the power of Planets real-time satellite imagery to transform your organization or governments decision-making, contact us today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The UK government is insistent it must regain all control and decision-making power over laws, regulations, trade and legal matters after Brexit - a stance which appears incompatible with Brussels' insistence there must be some form of 'level playing field' commitment or else the integrity of the single market could be undermined.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This article describes my view on how a project-driven company should be structured and organized using the latest in 21st century thinking. I use an idea on energy-independence services to show how I would shape my own business, starting with the why (purpose) all the way to the how (non-negotiables) and the what (organization).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground. The energy produced by Drax is classified as renewable under UK and EU law, under the premise that it uses trees which can be replanted to capture carbon. Caution Urged.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

The Project Associate will interface with diverse project partners and facility operators, monitor project development and operational status, manage project data and documentation, and assist with compliance reporting. Prepare technical analyses and perform quality assurance reviews of emission reduction calculations and technical reports.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 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. Exhibit A: law firms. But, hopefully, lead. Suffice to say, the jury is out.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A recent analysis from the World Benchmarking Alliance, a nonprofit organization that assesses how well corporations are working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, found a “dangerous lack of progress” from the oil and gas sector towards preventing global warming from exceeding 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In December, the Chubut legislature passed a law that authorized a highly contentious form of open pit mining that uses cyanide, which would have paved the way for Canadian mining company Pan American Silver to develop one of the world’s largest silver projects. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. Online applications and knowledge bases can provide a framework and structure to organize people and projects.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Despite repeated and ongoing violations from waste operators, ODNR has only followed through on enforcement of penalties six times in its 39-year history, according to the document.

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