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GRI Releases Draft Labor-Focused Sustainability Disclosure Standards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced today the release of two draft standards addressing how companies report on labor issues including disclosures on measures...

Groups celebrate decade of wildlife gains on UK farmland

A decade-long nature-friendly farming project has helped to increase the diversity and abundance of wildlife across farmland and prompted the return of rare species...

Rare-earth recovery separates materials well enough to make new magnets from them

A Czech group has developed a new method of separating the rare earth elements, or lanthanides, which are widely used in the electronic, medical,...

European Commission Proposes Target to Reduce Emissions 90% by 2040

The European Commission announced today a new proposed climate target, aiming to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the EU by 90% by...

Rooftop solar is being held back by lack of government-backed price for selling surplus energy

(Words: renewable energy consultancy Longevity Power). The ongoing lack of a government-backed guaranteed price for selling back surplus clean power to the UK energy grid...

Over half of Thames Water’s sewage works struggling to meet demand

Independent analysis has estimated that more than half of Thames Water’s 351 sewage treatment works are currently operating without sufficient capacity to treat the...

Asdirhyme Abdul Rasib appointed as chief executive of Malaysia’s MyPower Corporation

He succeeds Siti Safinah Salleh, who was appointed to head the Energy Commission earlier this year. Source: https://www.eco-business.com/news/asdirhyme-abdul-rasib-appointed-as-chief-executive-of-malaysias-mypower-corporation/

EPA Employees Sign ‘Declaration of Dissent’ Over Trump Administration Policies

A group of more than 170 employees of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday published a Declaration of Dissent from policies...

The Supreme Court just ended its term. Here are the decisions that will affect climate policy.

The Supreme Court often releases one or two big, splashy environmental decisions each term. Last year it was overruling a decades-old legal precedent called...

Threatened Heath Fritillary Butterflies See Major Population Increase in England

There is new hope for one of the rarest butterflies in the UK as a surge of heath fritillary butterflies (Melitaea athalia) has been...

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