Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

CEJST includes indicators of disadvantage for the 50 states and the District of Columbia related to climate change, energy efficiency, sustainable housing, ambient air and water pollution, and workforce development, to name a few. As a result, 87% of communities in Puerto Rico have been classified as disadvantaged by CEJST.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Legislation, Regulation, and the Power of Litigation The net-zero legislation and regulation identified in our paper fall into two broad categories: those mandating net zero and those facilitating net zero. The second category consists of regulatory mechanisms, such as corporate disclosure requirements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Electric Vehicle (EV) battery recycling is crucial to a sustainable, electrified transportation system. Recyclers use several processes to separate electrodes from the foil, including the two broad categories of chemical pre-treatment and thermal pre-treatment. EPR holds automakers responsible for recycling all batteries.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

San Francisco’s CAP envisions a sustainable and equitable climate future. The CAP, released in 2021, details emissions reduction strategies across six categories: energy supply, building decarbonization, transportation and land use, housing, green infrastructure, and waste reduction.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden announced a new Sustainable Products and Services procurement rule, which requires federal government buyers to prioritize sustainable products and services, and expands the categories of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ecolabel standards for federal purchasing to a series of new sectors.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly, but with this growth comes public pressure to ensure supply chains for EV batteries are sustainable. Today we release a new report with Ceres with recommendations for major corporate EV fleet purchasers for how they can help ensure supply chain sustainability.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) tax credit. The law introduces a new tax credit targeted towards sustainable aviation fuel that starts at $1.25 Further, the law allows for “direct pay” with respect to 45Q, meaning that tax liability is not needed to receive a refund from the IRS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While this is a huge win for those of us who want to see batteries recycled, there were also a handful of policies that could make incredible strides towards increasing the sustainability of batteries but weren’t recommended. Most policies recommended by the group fell under the safe and efficient reverse logistics category.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Five of the top six risks over the next decade fit that category: failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to a warming climate; extreme weather; biodiversity and ecosystem collapse; and, in general terms, “natural resource crises.” For risks expected to occur in the next two years, five of the top nine are environmental.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

On December 13, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced the Delaware County Office of Sustainability has completed the process of becoming the newest affiliate of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful (KPB)—Keep Delco Beautiful! The Delaware County affiliate is the fourth new local organization to join the KPB Affiliate Network this year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Note that Fiona made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane and still did a lot of damage—it all boils down to levels of community preparedness on land. And the lack of recovery and preparedness made the impact of Fiona—a Category 1 storm—so much more devastating.

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Brag

AUGUST 7, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first five product and service categories chosen for the expansion of its Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing (Recommendations). EPA plans to consider additional product and service categories as resources allow. Bergeson and Carla N.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The challenge aims to showcase real-world experiences of those who use electrified transportation in everyday life and help inform the public about more sustainable transportation. EPA will select up to nine winning videos, with each of the three categories having a first, second, and third place winner.

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 28, 2022

Silestone® Sunlit Days carbon-neutral technology has garnered the line a win in the Hard Surfacing, Tiles & Stone Category in 2021 Architizer A+ Product Awards. It was even a finalist in the Sustainable Design category.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Sustainable FERC Project. SPP in the Southwest employs a more general ‘Weather Advisory’ category for severe weather. Within the description of a Watch or OCN, the reason for its issuance is typically described and may include extreme heat, but beyond that, weather is not its own category.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2022

Sam’s Club announced on Tuesday new sustainability efforts, including removing certain ingredients from its Member’s Mark private label line, which spans several categories, including grocery. Read the full story at Grocery Dive.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Freshwater work ranked second-to-last among the 13 thematic-issue categories used to assess grant distribution. The agenda lists 15 priority needs, which are grouped into five categories that include data infrastructure, monitoring, ecology, management, and social ecology. It doesn’t make sense.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

Birders are invited to join the Blitz by forming a team, raising funds, and competing in either the “cumulative count” or “big day” categories to document birds during nesting season. This is in addition to our traditional “Big Day Count” category.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Krones’ ShoulderFlex bottle has won this year’s German Packaging Prize in the ‘Sustainability’ category, with the ultimate deciding factor being its weight of 5.9

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The PA GreenGov Council and the Penn State Sustainability will host a four-part sustainability webinar series on a variety of topics starting January 12. Specifically, the series supports Checklist efforts under the "Culture" category on Employee and Public Engagement (sections 13 and 14).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jobs for the Future and the Ares Charitable Foundation have chosen Sustainable Pittsburgh as one of ten organizations across the United States to advance to Phase 2 of the Quality Green Jobs Regional Challenge. Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Workplaces that prioritize sustainability contribute to more vibrant, equitable communities and support a healthy environment. “We Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh. “We Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh. Executive Director of Sustainability.

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Environmental Leader

DECEMBER 9, 2021

New benchmarks have been established to improve Eddie Bauer's sustainability practices for product categories. The post Eddie Bauer to Power Headquarters and Stores with 100% Renewable Energy by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The grid energy storage industry represents a much smaller fraction of the lithium-ion battery market than electric vehicles, but it too has a responsibility to ensure batteries are responsibly and sustainably produced and then productively recirculated at end-of-life. Sustainable supply chain solutions exist. Recycling must ramp up.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The town of Kamikatsu in Tokushima Prefecture aims to become a sustainable recycling community and has pledged to produce zero waste. Its recycling rate has already reached 80% by sorting trash into 45 categories, with used items displayed like a store at the recycling center. Read the full story at Arch Daily.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three-quarters of young people, in contrast, believe that wind and solar are low carbon, with only 61% of the eldest-age category polled – 65–74 year olds – knowing that nuclear falls into the low-carbon category too. We want to ensure a clean, sustainable and abundant future for us and the next generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Scientists evaluating resource availability through mining typically look at two categories : the total available resources and the reserves. Recycling can drastically decrease new mining needs and is an essential strategy to sustainable, secure, and affordable electrification. How is recycling more sustainable?

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

More food, beverage, and home-care brands are looking at switching from liquid formulations to concentrated powders in response to costs, changing consumer preferences, and a desire for more sustainable products and packaging.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Rethinking performance wear with a sustainable lens is especially difficult. Products’ durability is prioritized, often forcing sustainability to fall by the wayside. But brands that are implementing sustainable practices at the design stage are proving the potential for sustainability in the category.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2023

Applications are open for the Champions in Action program in the category of energy efficiency/renewable energy. Citizens is committed to driving positive climate impact and building a more diverse, equitable and sustainable future for all those we serve,” said Mark Rendulic, Citizens’ Pittsburgh Market President.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 6, 2022

Riding on the positive wave of COP26 and the increased attention the climate and nature crisis continues to receive, the amount of capital put towards sustainable investments continues also to increase. . When investors have cash to add, they add it to ESG, and any impulse to sell is felt by other categories.” By Anders Lorenzen.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 28, 2024

Cooperative agreements funded through GLCI this year will fall into two categories. The post $22 Million Announced for Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Operations that keep cover on the ground year-round increase water retention and reduce the impacts of flooding.

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Brag

MARCH 24, 2023

According to the CJ, the Safer Choice Program will expand into additional product categories and seek to increase consumer and commercial recognition of Safer Choice products. Initiate and engage in private-sector standards development activities that address product categories known to contain PFAS.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

The contest is open to professional and amateur photographers to capture striking nature photos in five categories: landscape, wildlife, macro, water, and a youth category for photographers under age 18. Photo: winner of the Landscape category in 2020 by Jeffrey Sidle.)

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

Cleantech” became a popular term in the late 1990s and early 2000s used by venture capital investors to describe a variety of green, sustainable and eco-friendly technology companies. What is Bluetech?

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Arnold & Porter was named to the Financial Times list of "Top 20 Most Innovative Law Firms in North America" in the "Practice of Law" category. In 2018, the firm won the Financial Times award for Innovative Lawyers in the category of "Rule of Law and Access to Justice" for a high-profile gerrymandering lawsuit in Pennsylvania.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2023

The federal, provincial and territorial governments have identified many of the items in the proposed six categories as problematic because they (1) regularly end up in the environment, (2) are harmful to habitats and species, and/or (3) cause significant challenges in end of life management. But we can’t stop here. 20, 2022.

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