Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alberta is taking a zero-tolerance approach to crime, bragged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2023 on social media after her government announced more enforcement, greater emphasis on public safety, and limited discretion of prosecutors to let offenders off the hook. million based on the scale of the pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

On Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 July, the High Court will hear a legal challenge that aims to force the Government to toughen up its plan for reducing sewage dumped in England’s rivers and seas. This is our chance to force the Government to put in place a robust plan to put an end to the sewage scandal blighting our country.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. The years top carbon polluters were a mix of investor-owned and state-owned or national companies but they have one thing in common. And their lobbying efforts took aim at regulating climate-altering pollution or sought to impede the energy transition.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030. For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year? lawmakers that industrial-scale pollution for profit was warming the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC‘s financial deficit is projected to reach nearly £500 million next year, with the licence fee – its primary funding source – having been frozen for several years by the last Conservative government. This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2023

Government announces plan to put targets to reduce storm overflows on a legal footing, as MPs block Labour's rival bill for tackling water pollution crisis

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. government to spur green technology investment. Fracking for shale gas is a controversial practice that risks causing air, water, and noise pollution. is beyond reach.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Defra confirms new legal duty to be placed on water companies to reduce nutrient pollution by 2030, as it looks to ease planning barriers for new housing projects. This is just one part of ongoing Government action to improve water quality across the country, from targets in our world-leading Environment Act to action on storm overflows.".

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

90% of British people have carpet in their homes and almost two-thirds want action by the UK government to address this waste stream, according to consumer survey. Changing Markets, Zero Waste Europe and UKWIN call on the UK government to adopt legislation to increase carpet recycling rates.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Reducing the reliance of water companies on storm overflows is important to help cut pollution in waterways, and earlier this year the Government announced it was working with Philip Dunne MP on shared ambitions to tackle high levels of sewage in UK rivers, following the introduction of his Private Member’s Bill in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Scientists have only realised more recently that they create persistent pollution problems. The impact on EMR’s operations is – in some ways – profound.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. While DLA Piper highlights its environmental credentials in the announcement, the international law firm — whose global revenue last year was over £1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

ClientEarth urges government to overhaul Clean Air Strategy as figures show UK is still off track for meeting a raft of legal targets. And if the government fails to review its strategy for meeting its legal air quality targets, it could be dragged back to court, the NGO warned.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. In June, the Canadian Parliament passed new amendments to the country’s Competition Act, which governs competition between businesses to protect Canadian consumers, by adding a new provision regulating environmental claims in advertising.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. The many faces of energy resilience. Michelle Moore. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 00:30. Resilience" is a powerful word in 2020. That’s the vision. Do justice.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These criteria include biodiversity impact, pollution impact, carbon impact, readiness level, costs, trade-offs and scalability. Many governments and companies have not properly valued the ecological and wider services provided by the oceans, explains BIP.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The group says that its members are “companies across the CCUS industry” including “support services in the energy sector” such as law, banking and consultancy. Carbon capture and storage, and the extension of the technology, CCUS, has been touted by major polluters as a way to cut their production emissions to meet climate targets.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 30, 2020

government putting in place regulations as part of its Zero-Emission Vehicles Act that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “While electric vehicle sales in B.C. These laws will help supply keep pace with demand, while sending a clear signal to the market that B.C. The post New B.C.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Envirotec reports.

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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). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Environment Bill has been hit with a fresh round of delays after an 11th hour move late yesterday evening from the government to remove the landmark legislation from the current Parliamentary session's agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

According to Johnathan White, lawyer and expert on corporate climate accountability at environmental law charity ClientEarth, this is because sustainability communication has “gone through the roof,” especially over the past five years. That’s how PR strategies work.” What Constitutes Greenwashing? Greenwashing isn’t a new strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

River conservation groups reacted with alarm to the news (on 29 August) that the government plans to ease restrictions on developers’ need to ensure the nutrient neutrality (NN) of their projects, in a bid to unblock house building “held up due to defective EU laws”. The complexity of the issue is explored in this article.

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Charged

MAY 23, 2022

This 500 big ones represents the first round of funding from the $5-billion investment authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This historic investment under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will forever transform school bus fleets across the United States,” said EPA Administrator Michael S.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

Long-awaited publication of government's environmental principles for policymaking triggers warnings from NGOs that green protections could now be watered down.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The publication of a landmark report on water quality in England’s rivers, on 13 January, appeared to uncover “multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement on water quality”, as MP Philip Dunne of the Environmental Audit Committee (EC), which authored the report, put it. Envirotec tries to join the dots.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Long-awaited details underpinning key elements of the government's waste-busting agenda were finally unveiled yesterday in a wave of consultations on measures to boost bottle recycling, develop a consistent recycling collections nationwide, and make manufactures pay towards recycling the packaging they produce.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But the nature group has also warned that this strong new resource could do little to boost access to nature without extra backing from Government, as the standards are voluntary not compulsory. An estimated £190 million+ has had to be cut from Local Authority parks budgets alone in just 5 years.

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