Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new monitoring platform claims it allows CPGs, retailers and farmers to track their land-based carbon footprint within supply chains and target ‘nature-based solutions at scale and speed’. Read the full story at Food Navigator. Read more →

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With the intent of finding real-time solutions for recycled materials and items, the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center, with funding from DEP, launched the Circular Merchant platform. “We One consideration could be shopping at secondhand retailers. Secondhand retailers sell previously used items.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Sustainable supply chain solutions exist. In many circular systems, problems = solutions. Recently, a total of nearly $74 million dollars of funds was awarded for research, development, and demonstration of 10 recycling and repurposing projects. Source: NREL/Flickr. The same goes for the energy storage battery supply chain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

Despite the evidence, nutritional incentives are still a patchwork solution across the country, supported through different mechanisms and only available at markets that raise enough funds—through GusNIP funding, private donations, and other mechanisms—to support the program.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2021

Read the full story at Waste360. Each year about five billion pounds of returned merchandise ends up landfilled, according to goTRG’s data. The Miami, Fla-based organization is among businesses working to keep these materials in circulation. It recovers and manages returns, distressed inventory, and overstock.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To simplify the purchase, Sheetz will use a solution that builds off of the Constellation Offsite Renewables (CORe) retail power product, which enables the development of, and increases businesses’ access to, renewable energy projects by removing the significant hurdles associated with traditional offsite power purchase agreements (PPAs).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

This is illustrated in the chart below from EIA which shows hurricanes that interrupted oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico having a short-term impact on retail gasoline prices comparable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The only sure solution to the many other problems caused by oil is to stop using so much oil.

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Green Bang

MARCH 7, 2022

One recent example is from the multinational financial service provider, Fiserv who recently launched Carat – a payment solution providing an ecosystem of omnichannel commerce solutions for large companies. . Industry pains and solutions . Particularly, security breaches within payment systems. .

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 11, 2021

based Campaign for Healthier Solutions in partnership with Environmental Defence. These commitments could also motivate its competitors in the dollar store retail space to improve their chemical management practices – such as Dollarama. . A new report showed that 60 per cent of products tested from Dollar Tree stores in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Second, definitions that rely on food quantity and availability suggest that the solution is to make food cheaper and open more supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods. And large corporations often pay low wages to retail and food service workers.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AB 1757 promotes natural carbon capture by requiring the state to develop targets for natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions that reduce GHGs in support of its climate goals. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Critically evaluating existing alternative approaches to urban sanitation, introducing new city-wide equitable sanitation concepts and solutions and providing policy guidance towards adequate, equitable and safely managed urban sanitation services. Urban sanitation services. 14 articles | 174,000 views. Waste management. Cleaning litter.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

Alkaline electrolyzers have existed for more than 100 years and use a liquid electrolyte solution. The two main types of electrolyzers are Alkaline and Polymer Electolyte Membrane (“PEM”). Many, however, are focusing on PEM electrolyzers, which use a specialty plastic material instead of a liquid electrolyte. What could hydrogen be used for?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

PNC Bank will receive approximately 148 million kilowatt hours of energy per year through its retail agreement with Constellation, with that energy matched by Green-e® Energy Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) sourced from other renewable facilities located throughout the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

“The GIANT Company’s transformative gift will enable Harrisburg University students and faculty to become a national leader in developing advanced agriculture and sustainability solutions,” said Darr. “We For more information on The GIANT Company’s sustainability initiatives, visit GIANT’S Healing Our Planet webpage.

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Physics World

APRIL 7, 2022

Light provides an ideal solution to AI computing for three key reasons. Our solution is a hybrid and we believe that this type of architecture will remain for at least the next few decades. . Our potential market would be cloud AI, finance and smart retail. And that’s where optical processors come in? How fast is PACE?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

We commend Comcast on its carbon neutral commitment and are pleased that our offsite renewable solution will serve as a significant stepping stone toward achieving that goal,” said Jim McHugh, Chief Commercial Officer, Constellation. “As Blue Sky is expected to reach commercial operation by December 2024.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 2, 2021

Considering recent summer and winter weather-induced blackouts, accomplishing this critical goal while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining affordable electricity prices is challenging states, regulators, investor-owned utilities, and retail power providers alike.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

At the same time, RGGI states made a commitment to work towards a solution to address the emissions from electricity imports into the region. In February 2013, participating states announced plans to lower RGGI’s cap on carbon dioxide emissions by 45% in 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The opportunities to diversify our generation fleet will continue to grow as nationwide investment has pushed down the cost of emerging technologies substantially over the last two decades, making solar and other advanced generation solutions affordable, and in many cases, the cheapest energy resource to build.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In In re Stingray IP Solutions, LLC , the plaintiff originally filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against companies organized and headquartered in China and Hong Kong. The defendants moved to dismiss, or in the alternative, to transfer to the Central District of California under 28 U.S.C.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In In re Stingray IP Solutions, LLC , the plaintiff originally filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against companies organized and headquartered in China and Hong Kong. The defendants moved to dismiss, or in the alternative, to transfer to the Central District of California under 28 U.S.C.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

“No one rakes the forest,” says Diane Ehrich, owner of Collins Nursery, a retail nursery outside Philadelphia that grew and sold only native plants. For one, simply moving the fallen leaves from your yard into your garden beds or under the trees is an easy solution. . It’s a win-win solution. . ”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2022

“Through those efforts, regional resource centers like Pocono will help us achieve our goal of increasing the number of organic farms and acres in organic production by developing solutions for farmers, providing food for the community, and serving as a beacon of education.” We are so proud to be partners with them.”

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag, with Founding Partners CVS Health, Target & Walmart, has launched of a series of tests and first-of-a-kind multi-retailer pilots to advance sustainable alternatives to the single-use plastic bag and accelerate their potential to scale.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Liability from old dry cleaners in retail sites that are beyond the boundaries of the “subject property” (. While many consultants already considered prior retail uses, including on adjoining sites, adding certainty will result in consistency, but also increase the costs for a 2021 version Phase I Environmental Site Assessment.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Credit buyers in the food and beverage sector will have the opportunity to meet their Scope 3 supply chain carbon goals using agriculture as an environmental solution. Credits developed through the project will meet the quality requirements of global corporate supply chain accounting and reporting standards.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In response to many of these suggestions, the Plan recommends the “collaborative development” of solutions. One solution that could address at least some of the concerns raised by tribal nations and summarized in the Plan is tribal co-management of natural resources with state and federal agencies.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Old Navy, which has more than 1,000 retail locations, has announced that as it did for the 2020 election, it will pay store employees who serve as poll workers in 2022 elections (. and many of those will also be eligible to be paid by local boards of elections). The webinar is complimentary, but you must register here.

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2022

“But we understand that it is a long-term endeavour, and we want to support industry by working with them to explore solutions to real-world problems.” “We can then benchmark the results against classical solutions and potentially across different quantum-computing platforms.”

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Amazon’s new Sustainability Solutions Hub centralizes access to several services Amazon has slowly been making available to sellers over the past few years. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

We encourage others to join and follow along as we continually challenge the status quo to create sustainable solutions, actions, strategies, and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, our campuses, and Western Pennsylvania."

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Glovo’s head of social impact and sustainability Sébastien Pellion, how logistics, manufacturing and transport will need to converge on new sustainability solutions to appease the demand of consumers. Read the full story at edie. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Matt Prindiville, head of a nonprofit focused on holistic waste solutions, is at the center of discussions with brands and activists alike about not just relying on recycling for a circular economy. Read the full story at Waste Dive. Read more →

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JANZEN AG

AUGUST 4, 2020

If a grocery store chain (or online retailer) decides to impose its own carbon-labeling scheme on all products sold in its stores, the store will be picking winners (with low carbon scores) and losers (with high carbon scores). The only solution could end up being federal pre-emption like we have seen with GMO labeling.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2022

It was abundantly clear at the UN Ocean Conference that enabling ocean-based climate solutions is a priority on the global agenda. GGGI also co-hosted a side event and panel in the SDG media zone, and announced at a plenary session that Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, has become a member of the GGGI.

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