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Cummins Employees Improve Environment One Mussel and Bee at a Time

3BL Media

The mussels eat algae and bacteria, cleaning and filtering water of pollutants, resulting in healthier aquatic ecosystems. Small, flexible, colored, plastic tags were applied to the shell of the mussels, which included an individual number for each mussel to be identified and measured. KEEPING BEES HUMMING IN GERMANY, NORWAY.

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New York to Charge Emitters $1 Billion per Year, Reinvest in Emissions Reduction

ESG Today

Hochul said: “Big emitters will have to purchase permits to sell polluting fuels. The dirtier the fuel – the bigger the price tag. The program is anticipated to generate more than $1 billion in proceeds annually.

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Why the push to sell LNG as a climate solution is full of hot air

Corporate Knights

In fact, LNG Canada’s Phase 1 project in Kitimat, British Columbia, with a price tag of $40 billion , is the largest private sector project in Canada’s history. One of the arguments most frequently made by industry lobbyists and LNG project proponents is that LNG is a “bridge fuel.”

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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Other issues arising include flood damage to buildings and other street infrastructure; sewer overflows polluting watercourses and water bodies and the declining quality of our lakes, rivers and reservoirs. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Technology pilots.

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Healthy choices helper?

Envirotec Magazine

An emerging class of personal air quality monitoring devices fills a need for people who care about pollution exposure in their immediate vicinity. The on-board hardware includes relatively simple MEMS semiconductor sensors, of a kind that have been developed principally for the detection of pollution from automobile exhausts.

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Threatening Climate for Insurance Sector 

Chris Hall

Meanwhile, investment bank Jefferies put a US$45 billion price tag on Hurricane Ian, which hit parts of the Caribbean as well as US states Florida and South Carolina in September, and forecast that rates would rise. Making polluters pay. He forecast that the industry would respond in a number of ways. “We No conflict of interest.

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Are we sure we want a smarter smart home and gadgets?

Stacey Higginbotham

Specifically, I’d hoped that we would take some of the invisible externalities associated with pollution or industrial processes and effect positive change. Maybe it would be an NGO holding a factory accountable for air pollution, or a city enacting different zoning laws to prevent people from living on top of toxic areas.

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