Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is applying its expertise in air quality measurement to enable local authorities across Greater Manchester to monitor the contribution to air pollution from wood burning stoves, raise public awareness of its risks, and reduce its impact on people’s health.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2020

How efforts to flatten the curve of COVID-19 have reflected air quality in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2019, University of Utah atmospheric scientists, the Environmental Defense Fund and other partners added a new tool to their quiver of air quality monitors: two Google Street View cars, Salt Lake Valley’s roving sentinels that would detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots. from dust or ash; and methane, primarily from the landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2021

Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched last week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

Santiago, Chile: The country hosted eight of the most polluted cities in the Americas in 2022. Key findings The top five most polluted countries in 2022 were: Chad (89.7 The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. annual guideline Iraq (80.1 annual guideline.

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Energy Storage News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2024

plastic treaty talks begin their crucial next-to-last round, how can we ensure the opportunity to end plastic pollution progresses in a way that is ambitious, effective and fair? As the U.N.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Chris Packham is urging the public to spend 20 minutes counting stars to help build a crucial national database mapping light pollution. Artificial light pollution is one of the biggest threats to nocturnal creatures, many of which have suffered sharp population declines. Light pollution disrupts wildlife.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. Few studies of pollution by MPs have been published in Brazil, especially regarding inland aquatic areas.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Seaweed’s benefits as part of a superfood are well-sung but its potential to tackle the destabilization of the Earth’s natural nitrogen and phosphorous cycles deserve more attention.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As more waterways contend with algae blooms and pollution caused by minerals from agricultural runoff and industrial manufacturing processes, new methods to remove pollutants like phosphate, copper and zinc are emerging across fields.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Water pollution is a growing concern globally, with research estimating that chemical industries discharge 300–400 megatonnes (600–800 billion pounds) of industrial waste into bodies of water each year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Five startups vying for exposure and support at Bloom 23 made rapid pitches for their tech to protect nature and boost biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2024

A Ceres report highlights what the beverage industry can do to better mitigate water quality impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

His current focus is on the impact kitchen-based air pollution has on vulnerable communities and the impact green-blue-gray infrastructure (such as trees, lakes and stormwater ) has on mitigating air pollution and excessive heat in towns and cities.” The award is named after Dr Arie J.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In Vietnam's heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

Environment Agency Executive Director John Leyland said: “These new enforcement powers will be an extra tool in our armoury to hold polluters to account.”

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines offer great promise in the fight against climate change because they are powerful without emitting any earth-warming carbon. They can power heavy-duty trucks and buses and are suited for off-road and agricultural equipment and backup power generators, providing cleaner alternatives to diesel engines.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2022

Kellogg is working with rice farmers to introduce a new sustainable flooding method that would substantially decrease emissions but also protect bird habitat.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2024

Consumer packaged goods companies, chemical producers and the oil industry are in the crosshairs of watchdogs in Ottawa.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2022

Over 90 percent of ocean plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers. But innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions to stop them.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Ammonia may conjure thoughts of off odors, but the world is entirely dependent on the smelly stuff as a fertilizer and for use in myriad other industries. Problem is, nearly all the ammonia produced today is heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

JULY 25, 2023

PepsiCo, McDonald's, Nestlé and others were also featured among the "Dirty Dozen" report on plastic litter by Surfers Against Sewage.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Google Maps functionality harnesses AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of the world's biggest contributors to the plastic crisis has yet to pass meaningful federal regulation on plastic pollution, but a new bill may change that.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the process, a lot of particulate and gaseous pollutants are released into the atmosphere: ultrafine soot particles, carbon monoxide, highly volatile organic substances such as formaldehyde, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and many more.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

The company has published its strategy for ‘zero materials waste and zero pollution.’

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2024

Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 27, 2024

Date/Time: April 30, 2024 (11AM-12PM ET / 8-9AM PT) As the global UN Plastics Treaty enters the final stages of negotiations, organizations must rethink single-use plastics, evaluate how to operationalize circularity, and irrevocably shift business models.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2022

Some transit agencies are saying, "This bus is perfectly good — except for all the pollution" and doing something about it.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Sustainability experts view climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water scarcity, food security and water pollution as increasingly severe challenges, according to the latest GlobeScan/ERM survey.

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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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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Wind turbines and photovoltaics (PVs) are becoming increasingly widespread worldwide, which could contribute to reducing air pollution caused by fossil fuel emissions. To produce energy, however, these renewable energy solutions rely on specific weather conditions (e.g., the presence of wind and sufficient hours of sunlight).

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NRDC onEarth

JUNE 3, 2024

The New York Healthy Homes Right to Know Act would require signage and labels that detail the health risks of using a gas stove.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Using satellite data, researchers found that poor communities of color are highly exposed to toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, largely due to diesel truck traffic.

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