GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

The group’s intervention comes as new data shows that, although Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations decreased marginally between 2021 and 2022, air pollution remains at illegal and unsafe levels in areas across the country. Post-pandemic progress on air pollution reduction nationally is now plateauing. ”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The conference, which is being held from 22 to 25 September in Liverpool, is one of the largest political gatherings in Europe and will feature set piece speeches from Labour’s newly-elected Cabinet ministers. It pollutes our politics and dilutes their agenda… Climate wrecking sponsors have got to go.”

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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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Econaur

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delhi’s persistent struggle with air pollution has been making headlines, with the air quality index (AQI) hitting alarming levels. While various factors contribute to this crisis, buildings emerge as a significant contributor, accounting for nearly 70% of the pollution, according to the World Health Organization.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

But it also marked the moment when air pollution’s harms were finally acknowledged, and efforts began to legislate against it. What’s maybe most surprising is that we lived with air pollution for so long before finally waking up to the recognition that it was harmful, in the 1950s. Monitoring milestone.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

This transferred the polluting plants to different owners, meaning that the plants will still contribute to global emissions. The BBC StoryWorks articles didn’t provide information about the company’s existing polluting activities, or the global need to rapidly scale-down oil, gas, and coal production.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Ultrafine particles, UFPs, the smallest particles that contribute to air pollution ( and still a challenge to measure ), hinder the function of mitochondria in human olfactory mucosa cells, according to a new study, findings that appear to clarify some of the adverse health effects believed to be linked to exposure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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. Board Members and Political Influence Individuals from the fossil fuel industries are well represented on the CCSA board, as well as the group’s membership.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations. Yet Reform’s official register of donations reveals the party is bankrolled by rich businessmen who reject climate science or make money from polluting industries.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Nutrient pollution can lead to the growth of harmful algal blooms such as cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae, pictured (image credit: UKCEH). Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

While it has long been known that the poorest among us endure the brunt of air and water pollution, climate change and other problems, companies largely have focused on social and environmental issues separately and, all too often, unequally. That’s changing.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Farmer, Mr John Price of Day House Farm, Kingsland, was charged with a number of offences, including failing to stop agricultural pollution from entering the river and removing trees and vegetation from the banks, and re-profiling river banks; and carrying out work without consents in November 2020 and December 2021.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2020

Air pollution impacts how the human body can fight infections and viruses. Coronavirus mortality rates could become another galvanizing force for cleaning up the air and simultaneously lowering carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. Policy & Politics. They’re in the crosshairs of the danger," she said. I want twofers and threefers. Sponsored Article.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations. I’m not comfortable with leadership figures cosying up to big polluters and corporate interests,” she told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Environmental Audit Committee calls on government to lead crack down on water pollution. While sewage discharge from water companies was deemed to be responsible for 36 per cent of rivers failing to meet the 'good' status, the agriculture industry also came in for criticism for its failure to curb levels of pollutants.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

That includes providing opportunities for marginalized and disadvantaged communities, including communities of color, that tend to be at greater risk of pollution and climate impacts. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. There's kind of this feeling like the environment ends with the shoreline. Oceans & Fisheries. Social Justice.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So conclude researchers at Utrecht University, who have developed a new water quality model they say will better appraise the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. In addition to identifying hotspots of water quality issues, the model can help with attributing the source of pollution to particular sectors.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big polluters and a surge of nationalism scuttled any meaning results from two intense weeks of U.N. climate negotiations.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Even if every company’s facilities and fleets were to make a sharp turn away from fossil fuels and toward an all-electric future, there are massive structural, political and economic hurdles to overcome. It will fall to the private sector as much as the public sector to drive these changes, both politically and economically.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

California has a program called Transformative Climate Communities (TCC), in which communities most affected by pollution are able to choose their own goals, strategies and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address local air pollution. Policy & Politics. Community Resilience. California. Equity & Inclusion.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 13, 2024

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims A multibillion-pound “net zero” project backed by two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over its lifetime, according to research submitted to the UK government.

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Financial Times: Energy

MAY 26, 2024

Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as effluent pollution climbs political agenda

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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. Environmental capacity.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of "the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.". Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Deep decarbonization only happens if every polluter pays, not just the environmentally conscious.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 5, 2021

Examples from politics to public health are too many to mention. It expediently transports your problem to your neighbor’s lawn or a municipal street, generates more pollution in one hour than an economy car does in 1,000 miles and achieves a decibel level that causes damage to hearing after two hours, according to the CDC.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The firms were then featured prominently on panels alongside these cabinet ministers, MPs, and local political leaders. The corporate sponsors of the conference spoke alongside these political leaders, and a spokesperson for Atkins admitted that its “sponsorship package included panel speaker slots”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Policies to promote innovation and prevent pollution can help consumers and move the auto industry towards new progress.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.” We need political leaders who will shoot for the moon in tackling the existential challenges we face, not bury their heads in the sand.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

The ongoing nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands and Flanders illustrates how ineffective management of nutrients can lead to both serious ecological damage and political and societal upheaval. In Europe, ecologically valuable grasslands, heathlands, peatlands, forests, arctic and montane ecosystems are particularly vulnerable.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citing economics and competitive advantage, major firms argue against loosening government controls aimed at cutting carbon pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Farming and rural land management,” he said, “impacts a higher proportion of our water bodies – 45% – than any other source, mostly through what is called diffuse pollution,” he said, referring to chemicals from things like fertilizers and pesticides, which run off the land and pollute water courses. An easier finger to point.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The health effects of air pollution, combined with the climate effects of greenhouse gases, are increasing public, media and political attention on the measurement of air quality and emissions. AQE 2024 has been designed to meet the needs of anyone involved with air quality and emissions reduction.

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