Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2022

Demand for plastic packaging recycling continues to increase with many industries making advancements regarding the practice. The post Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Packaging Demand Increases appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

California’s offshore wind (OSW) industry is transitioning from planning to implementation in a statewide effort to deliver 2-5 GW clean energy by 2030. In a nascent industry with complex community interests at play, the need to monitor and optimize OSW’s local impacts is paramount.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

Quality Industrial Coatings , a leading provider of automotive, truck, and RV painting and body repair services, has been honored with the 2024 Small Business Environmental Stewardship Award by the National Small Business Environmental Assistance Programs (SBEAPs). tons/year of VOC emissions.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At the same time, this growth in mining and manufacturing also presents an opportunity to avoid recreating the harms of past mining and industrial activities. The goal is to highlight areas where corporate advocacy and procurement practices can have the most impact in promoting a sustainable EV industry.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

In remarks before DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council , Tom Pike, an Environmental Policy Advocate with Protect PT, said -- “ProtectPT is requesting that the PA Department of Environmental Protection revise its rules on road spreading of gas industry waste. “We Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 25, 2024

The Court held that both provisions were incompatible with state law, which gives CalGEM (the agency tasked with permitting oil and gas operations at the state level) discretion to approve “methods and practices” of oil and gas exploration and extraction on a case-by-case basis. The oil industry shouldn’t get to use Chevron v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities. The data These data represent the cumulative carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the largest industrial carbon producers. For fossil fuel companies, this includes product-specific emissions from combustion of coal, oil, and methane gas.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 12, 2023

As Wendy's continues to strive for sustainable growth, it sets an example for other companies in the fast-food industry to prioritize ESG practices and contribute to a more sustainable future

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

But the oral comments also included several speakers representing the industries producing a substantial amount of this deadly air pollution. It is especially linked to harm in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, but it also has the ability to damage practically every organ in the body. pollution than white communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country. A new Dust Bowl? The answer?

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 27, 2023

Practically, these efforts include clean mobility, renewable energy, and hydrogen production. The post European Green Deal: New Green Alliance Between EU-Norway Deepens Clean Industry Commitment appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

But agricultural practices, especially in California, must be updated to survive the future. Can we put a dollar amount on industrial agribusiness’s negative impact? Extractive industrial agribusinesses are not local farmers, they do not live on the land nor do they form part of local communities.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB has justified its decision to issue lucrative credits to industrial dairies that construct anaerobic digester systems to capture dairy methane––despite years of pushback from environmental justice communities––through a basic anchoring premise: there is no alternative. But CARB has the opportunity to change course now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The move departs from the best practices of other EPA offices, other federal agencies, the European Union, Canada, and most of the scientific community. Defining PFAS chemicals PFAS chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are industrial chemicals that can repel water, oil and grease and are found in countless consumer products.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

The notice included some suggested topics of research-- -- Quantify the impact of Manure Treatment Technologies (MTT) on water quality, -- Quantify the impact of precision feeding and review implications for nutrient reductions -- Quantify the climate benefits of best management practices -- Design a method in which to quantify the climate impacts (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Advisory Group had a final count of 19 members and consisted of representatives from the automotive and battery industries (6 members), waste industry (5 members), public interest organizations (3 members), and government agencies (5 members). Did the group propose recycling requirements? What other policies were recommended?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 15, 2024

Farm safety net subsidies reward an industrial farming model that contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and farmland consolidation in agriculture. Farm bill negotiations may be heating up once again after a standstill that has left members of Congress divided about what to prioritize. Now is the time to act. Take Action!

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Code covers best practices on governance, management of conflicts of interest, and transparency of methodologies and data sources, including disclosure on how forward-looking elements are taken into account in data products.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Emerging policy The EU has established separate targets for 2030, but faces industry pressure to allow substitution and trading in the post 2030 regime. This plays into the hands of those using the weasel words of ‘avoiding unabated fossil fuel use’ to sustain the fossil fuel industry from the threat of a phase out.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2024

Implementing Circular Economy throughout the Construction Project Life Cycle: A Review on Potential Practices and Relationships. Buildings, 14(3).

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 14, 2024

This post is a summary of a more detailed Client Alert prepared by Gray Reed’s labor and employment practice group. Recall our recent post on the Department of Labor’s new “Economic Realities Test” for classifying specialized contractors and consultants as either employees or independent contractors.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 16, 2024

Youngstown has a long industrial history and is still home to numerous sources of industrial pollution, including a steel plant and other metal fabricators, a concrete plant and a hazardous waste processing facility. Read the full story at Environmental Health News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Instead of warning the world and transitioning away from fossil fuels, the industry spent the last 50-plus years spreading disinformation and obstructing government action. The industry’s actions, the CHR report said, were driven “not by ignorance, but greed.” The lawsuit asks the courts to ban such misleading advertisements.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

But recent water treatment technologies have made what was once a cost for operators into a new industry in which treated wastewater can be sold back to operators. And industry practice characterizes produced water as oil and gas waste rather than groundwater. 16 TAC 3.8(a)(29) Stay tuned. This debate is not over.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

The reason I’m calling this a half-truth, however, is that regulating big industries is inherently complicated. In practice, the cap and trade system is just a carbon tax.” In practice, California’s system is a hybrid, with some aspects of a tax and some of an emissions cap. Half-Truth. Half-truth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public. From SEMA data ).

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

In August of 2023, Premier Smith imposed a seven-month industry-wide moratorium on new approvals for wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of renewable energy. That restriction would never be considered for the oil and gas industry. It doesn’t give any confidence for businesses to invest in Alberta’s renewable power industry.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a leader in the solar industry, Qcells has a team of experts in every field of solar engineering and manufacturing. Qcells’ groundbreaking Q.ANTUM Technology has been raising standards of module performance and efficiency throughout the solar industry, and their investments and manufacturing practices emphasize Qcells’ commitment to U.S.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Her parents, “kind of hippies,” had introduced her to the practice growing up in Bloomfield, Indiana, but, in the Big Apple, there was no gardening “or any sort of composting,” she said. Back then Long Island City was, even for New York, very much an industrial environment.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

and Latin America offices from the Environmental Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide and The Legal 500 Latin America 2023 Guide. Bell Industry Focus > Environment Litigation Industry Focus > Environment Regulatory Houston Thomas R.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

Matt Royer, director of the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center , emphasized the significance of this national program in advancing climate-smart agriculture, underscoring the importance of collaboration among industry leaders and USDA stakeholders. “By By convening these forward-thinking companies at the forefront of the U.S.

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Cresforum

MARCH 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of renewable energy, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) emerged as a piece of legislation aimed at accelerating the adoption of clean energy practices have become a point of contention among political parties.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

On July 12, the US Department of Energy selected Pennsylvania State University as one of nine organizations to help industrial facilities and other large energy users increase the adoption of onsite decarbonization strategies. Click Here for the complete announcement. Posted: July 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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The Applied Ecologist

MARCH 21, 2023

Co-authors Jenna Hutchen and MJ Robertson discuss how their latest research in interdisciplinary forest science led to a topology of Knowledge Exchange practices. Managing forests is not as simple as growing or cutting down trees.

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Cresforum

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As policymakers charge forward with the implementation of policies that pick winners and losers when it comes to reducing emissions in the transportation industry, transportation leaders are feeling the gear pressure. Innovation in the transportation industry must be encouraged. That is a mistake,” Romanosky said.

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 12, 2023

It sounds like science fiction, but the world is changing, and the reality of turning practically anything into useable material for construction or industrial use is here. Scientists have found a way to use nanodiamonds to convert greenhouse gas into useable industrial material.

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HumanNature

MAY 1, 2024

Oftentimes, the allure of fashionable clothing overshadows the heavy burden of the industry, from environmental degradation to unethical labor practices. Fashion’s Hidden Costs The late 20th century witnessed a transformative shift in the fashion industry with the emergence of fast fashion.

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