Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An example of a pit latrine, where human waste is deposited in the soil where nature is able to safely sanitise it (image credit: Dr Simon Willcock, Bangor University). This includes pit latrine waste that gradually filters through the soil — a natural process that cleans it before it reaches groundwater.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations. Regenerative agriculture seeks to restore natural habitats and reverse climate change by restoring soil health and improving its ability to store carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We need to kick big polluters out.”. As documented in the latest edition of DeSmog’s Gaslit column, fossil fuel sponsorship of COP27 represents an extension of a decades-long effort by oil and gas companies to buy social legitimacy by bankrolling sports, arts, and education around the world. body representing indigenous peoples.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Another challenge of our research is the integrated use of optical constellation satellite and SAR data for monitoring soil-vegetation productivity of agricultural land area. We have also documented a partial recovery in kelp abundance between 2020 and 2021.”. Air Quality.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Research published in BioScience indicates that habitat loss, light pollution and pesticides are threatening these delightful insects. The second issue leaving fireflies vulnerable is light pollution. Light pollution, habitat loss and pesticides push fireflies toward extinction. Here is the original post:Â .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

To date, no photos documenting the scale of the spill or serious impacts to wildlife have been made public. “The pipeline has been repaired, pressure tested, and covered with soil. The delay in getting information about the spill deprived the media — and the public — of the chance to document the spill at its worst.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

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. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Pollution Prevention & Water Stewardship. Are we composting food waste?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

A new series of reports document findings from the ‘Final 25%’ project from Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise. Also, soil carbon could be increased – to provide a further carbon sink and potentially increase crop yields. license ).

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The ISO 14001 Certification supports an organization in developing and integrating its environmental management practices to protect the environment by, for example, preventing pollution, minimizing waste, and reducing energy and materials consumption. Pollution prevention. Soil contamination. Pollution prevention.

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Business Energy Monitoring Organic Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

Low Impact

AUGUST 9, 2020

Natural organic reduction, a technique for turning human remains into “soft, beautiful soil” is being billed by its American developers, Recompose , as the greenest of green funerary practices. Was the deceased a member of the Soil Association? The devil could well be in the detail – hopefully not in the soil.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Time for Energy is part of a collection of 201 company documents, official correspondence, reports, academic studies, and other materials that cast new light on what Shell knew about climate change — and what it chose to tell the public. ” Documents from the collection can be viewed at Climate Files , a project of the U.S.-based

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

We are, as has been well documented, deep into a great extinction event as flora and fauna are forced into ever smaller enclaves. Most important of all, plummeting clean tech costs point a path towards how the market failure that leads to climate change - the failure to put a price on polluting externalities - could be rectified.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM concluded in a 2023 legislative report. Both scenarios put the public at risk. “If

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. That’s where carbon removal comes in. Or they can pay to protect a forest from logging.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

The consultation launched earlier this year attracted over 130 responses from experts around the world, while the consultation document itself - setting out the its vision for developing a unified, credible market - drew on in-depth conversations with over 450 Taskforce members.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There is also an intense debate around which industries should be able to purchase carbon offsets, with fears the market will provide cover for large polluters taking minimal steps to reduce their absolute emissions. Governments tend to be relatively unaware of the VCM," the report notes.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. You’ll use this platform to access various resources and tools, assemble your project team, collect any required documentation, and submit payment and your application for certification. Submit required documentation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. Think how much impact we could have if every one of those documents accounted for climate impacts and set obligations to deliver net zero targets.

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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. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Pollution prevention begins with reducing or eliminating waste at the source.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

When this waste is not disposed of properly, it can cause pollution of soil, water, and air. Best practices for biomedical waste management include regular training and education of staff, the use of personal protective equipment, and proper documentation of waste management activities.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The ISO 14001 Certification supports an organization in developing and integrating its environmental management practices to protect the environment by, for example, preventing pollution, minimizing waste, and reducing energy and materials consumption. Pollution prevention. Soil contamination. Pollution prevention.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A key focus of the new ELM scheme will be delivering on targets in the government's 25 Year Environment Plan and the UK's statutory goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to the documents released today.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ Kat Anderson has documented. The implications extend nationwide. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Pollution had pushed its way into the national conversation. It was not in our DNA to be this wasteful,” said Jackie Nuñez, the advocacy program manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a communications nonprofit. “We We had to be trained, we had to be marketed to, to be wasteful like this.” The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 4, 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, the industry’s operations are known to cause pollution, food insecurity and job losses. It also stands accused of ecological harms: causing pollution, driving illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and depleting the marine food web for seabirds, and other sea life.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Bill seeks to do this by embedding environmental principles - such as the 'polluter pays principle' - in policy decision-making and by creating the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), a new body tasked with overseeing the proper application and enforcement of environmental law by ministers and public bodies.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

As has been well documented, these impacts are reaching, and have arguably surpassed, crisis levels. And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. Forest loss continues at an alarming rate. Earths".

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Water companies must invest a collective £56bn towards tackling sewage spills and improving environmental practices over the next 25 years in addition to facing the "toughest ever" pollution targets, as part of a major crackdown on water pollution announced by the government late last week.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Taking steps to foresee and prevent damage is common sense, as is ensuring that polluters pay," she said.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. The deer shot by Wolf Tail is the first documented case of CWD on the reservation. Grist / Zoya Teirstein. The federal government has detected CWD in 30 states.

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