Yale E360

JUNE 11, 2025

A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and demolition that now ends up in landfills. The challenge, proponents say, is to deploy new techniques for disassembling old buildings and markets for repurposing the salvaged wood. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And ever-increasing numbers of battery-powered cars on the road will also mean a growing number of waste batteries. waste stream in coming years. We’ve seen what happens in other industries when the waste stream isn’t responsibly managed and their products clog landfills, whether that’s plastic bags or smartphones.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 2, 2025

sourced single-use packaging and shield Canadian food growers and producers from price volatility, all while eliminating waste and pollution. Designation of Canadas Zero Plastic Waste Agenda as a Barrier to Trade appeared first on Environmental Defence. The post U.S. The post U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

The Physicians For Social Responsibility PA will hold a May 8 in-person workshop and webinar on Oil & Gas Industry Waste Worker Safety from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Workers are often on the front lines of hazardous operations, they are not always fully informed about the toxic materials they encounter. It will also be available online.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 10, 2025

report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste. By Bob Berwyn A team of international researchers published a new U.N.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Many were leaking gas and failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

They require that most homes large enough for families be built in inefficient low-density types and put on farmland and natural areas where construction resources are wasted on building roads, sewers and other infrastructure from scratch. They also make Canada vulnerable to U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 11, 2025

Plastic is inexpensive to produce while being lightweight … Continue reading Plastic pyrolysis − chemists explain a technique attempting to tackle plastic waste by bringing the heat As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

To be more specific, the law forbids the California Energy Commission from issuing a permit to any new nuclear fission power plants until theres a way to dispose of toxic and long-lived nuclear waste. Third, safety, security, and waste concerns matter greatly with nuclear power plants, and those must be considered as well.

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New Scientist

MAY 7, 2025

This is great news, as it will boost food production and reduce waste, says Michael Le Page A UK parliamentary committee has greenlit gene-edited plants.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 9, 2025

Rage at the vandals in power who would discard thisimportant scientific workas wasteful and by contrast, reminded of the first director of Fermilab, who was challenged in Senate testimony to say whether knowledge the new lab pursued would help defend America from its (then mostly external) enemies.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. In fact, Mobil patented the co-processing of plastic waste in cokers in 1978. million tonnes of plastic waste escaped into California’s environment. In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This is wasting time and when time is wasted it threatens our communities as well as verifiable science, both Western and Indigenous. Painting the issue of climate change, or any other issue for that matter, as solved by Indigenous science is like calling John Wayne movies accurate.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2025

Learn more about dangers of waste incineration So back to the trade war. This is damaging to the environment and disproportionately harmful to people including Indigenous, low-income and racialized communities living near extraction, production and waste facilities. The story of plastic in Canada is a sad example.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks. Over its short lifetime, the program has already transformed many segments of the fuels market.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 3, 2023

When data types like electricity, water, waste, gas, supplier data, performance KPIs, and more exist in many siloed systems, the question is: Where do you even start? The post How Organizations Can Prepare Their ESG Data for Sustainability Reporting appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Yale E360

APRIL 2, 2025

As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its untapped energy to power reactors. Advocates tout new recycling methods as a breakthrough, but many experts warn it will extract plutonium that could be used for nuclear weapons. Read more on E360

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

The House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to meet March 18 to consider six pieces of legislation-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; -- Invertebrate Biodiversity: House Bill 441 (Pielli-D-Chester) amends the (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

Cryptocurrency] Panther Creek Power - Panther Creek Pyropower [ Read more here ], Unit and Pyropower Unit 2 Coal waste-fired power plant Nesquehoning, Carbon County -- [Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. Rich Memorial Power Station Coal waste-fired power plant Frackville, Schuylkill County -- Mount Carmel Cogen Inc.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 12, 2025

Costa Rica has protected 30 percent of its marine territory, and the small Central American country wants more care for the ocean, including a moratorium on deep sea mining.

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Cleannovate

MARCH 4, 2025

When we think of circular agro-processing, we imagine producing value-added products from agricultural produce devoid of waste. And there’s something magical about converting waste into value… It generates new incomes and creates new possibilities. And to this end, the coconut is exceptional.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 7, 2025

And to make matters juicy, they could be extracted from what we see as waste. They are molecular machines that overwork to yield results as long as they are supplied with just the optimum conditions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Schuylkill Keep It Pretty is supported by the Schuylkill County Commissioners and is in partnership with the Schuylkill Office of Solid Waste & Recycling. Schuylkill Keep It Pretty is dedicated to cleaning up litter and educating communities on litter prevention, solid waste management, recycling and waste reduction.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, for our ocean and the planet, the real fright comes from plastic waste. Plastic candy wrappers, plastic decorations and other plastic waste have serious impacts on our ocean and marine life. Consider composting organic waste, like pumpkins or left over party snacks, and recycling other materials. Love ocean content?

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Earthava

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Plastic waste contributes to climate change by releasing greenhouse gases during its production, degradation, and incineration. The post Plastic Pollution and Climate Change: Understanding Their Interconnected Impact on Our Planet appeared first on Earthava.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 12, 2025

Maize not only feeds us, but in the process of growing it, we generate waste. But it’s more than just a staple food. It’s a way of life, especially for people living here. Think about the stalks, stovers and cobs that are part of the whole game.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Grocers like to say that plastic food packaging is environmentally friendly and prevents food waste. Nearly half of all food in Canada is wasted and one of the causes are high-volume “bulk” products offered in plastic packaging. But the truth is MUCH more complicated.

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Cleannovate

DECEMBER 9, 2024

COMPOSTING In normal composting, high nitrogen wastes (the very mushy ones) are combined with high carbon wastes (the dry stuff like straw) and let … However, it may take over six months for the final product, which is quite some time. That said, in what ways could we hasten this process?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This webinar showcases Benton Foundry’s green initiatives that have significantly reduced energy consumption and waste.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hill a waste of time? to mostly complete, money that would have gone wasted. And yet, an economic analysis after the case found that, even considering all that wasted money, the economic benefits of the dam were so insignificant that not completing the dam would have been the better economic option.

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Earthava

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Living with fewer possessions not only curbs waste but also promotes a more sustainable lifestyle. Owning less reduces consumption, leading to a lower environmental impact. This approach encourages mindful decisions about what we own, pushing people to get only what they need and truly value.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste. The industry makes highly misleading claims that certain SMRs will reduce the intractable problem of long-lived radioactive waste management by generating less waste, or even by “recycling” their own wastes or those generated by other reactors.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2024

If the forest was unlikely to be cut down, this is a waste of money and bogus credits. If a company gets credits by paying to conserve a forest on a plot of land, proving additionality requires showing that the forest would likely have been logged absent the payment.

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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Plastics generate interest because they are easy to make but very difficult to degrade leading to a plastic solid waste catastrophe. Most plastics are a by-product of petroleum refining, which make their presence a guarantee as long as we use fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For DEP, the Agenda includes a proposed regulation establishing an annual permit fee for shale gas wells [ Read more here ] and updated waste management regulations covering conventional oil and gas operations [ Read more here ]. Lancaster County. ( Westmoreland County.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Minerals like lithium, nickel, graphite, and cobalt are too often mined and processed in ways that contribute to harming communities and ecosystems, while the batteries often face wasteful end-of-life disposal.

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