DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He came to some prominence several years ago as the leader of a small but loud contingent of German politicians who did not want Germany to bail out other EU countries like Greece during the 2011 debt crisis. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists. In those U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

In May 2011 the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) took a decision [that] allowed 5 of Kovachki’s companies to be transferred to [the] Seychelles,” Mario Gavrilov, a former spokesman for Bulgaria’s CPC, told OCCRP. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. and Cyprus.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

His influence can bee seen in Trump's unrelenting altercations with the law. This is a man who as president uses the vernacular of organized crime, calling people who tell the truth "rats". Cohen said he broke the law at the direction of president Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 15, 2022

The event featured three panels, which explored the changing laws, technologies, and industry dynamics at play in the battery storage sector, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), and electric transmission planning respectively. Since 2011, when FERC issued Order No.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It's not enough for companies to report about their financial activities and liabilities as required by law, according to Sen. Signed into law in August, it offers fe emissions reductions by incentivizing clean energy and carbon capture technologies. Sheldon Whitehouse. Your ticket to participation in civilised society'.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. At the height of the crisis, more than 4.5 million customers across the state were without power.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

This is why it’s more important than ever to have partners and organizations like Greentown Labs, whose mission is to solve the climate crisis through entrepreneurship and collaboration. We are proud to welcome this organization to our City and look forward to the continued partnership.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 18, 2022

These leaders bring a wealth of knowledge relevant to not only climatetech but to our continued growth as an organization. from Lewis and Clark Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. Dr. Gilda A. Barabino is President of Olin College of Engineering, and Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It can also complement the ongoing work of researchers by providing hyper-local information about wind patterns and chemical readings of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a diverse group of chemicals that includes some carcinogens. A new generation of Harris County leaders is doing what it can to fill the regulatory void left by the TCEQ.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our organization is inclusive and events are open to people of all genders. based nonprofit organization working on developing national and international policy solutions on sustainable development, building consensus and coalitions among civil society groups on these issues and lobbying government representatives. In 2011, Ms.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. On March 16, 2011, an investigator spent seven minutes outside K-Solv.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Success in building relationships and organizing collaboration in a technical interdisciplinary setting, including with members outside one’s organization. Sila was founded in 2011 and is based in Alameda, CA. Product management experience with a technical product which is used in a factory (i.e.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. But we were not required to by law. Teaching a group of sixth graders about systems design, 2011. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989. It grew food.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. particulate matter are designated as “unhealthy.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. What is now colloquially called EEI, was launched in 1885 as the National Electric Light Association, or NELA.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance. Like with natural gas, pro-nuclear companies and lobbies started to pressure the Commission to change its stance. Like Greece, Italy has a huge stake in gas.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 27, 2020

As reported by NPR , in 2018, an organization called Issue One published a study that found the top 15 politically active nonprofits raised more than $600 million for GOP campaigns between 2010 and 2016. Almost two thirds of countries that significantly improved their standings also strengthened campaign finance laws.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” Blake Scott, Waste Analytics In Ohio, state laws also enable fracking waste treatment facilities to be developed and built without any public participation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive use of antibiotics on farms is a major driver of AMR in people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Total sales have fallen 53 percent from 2011 to 2022 in 25 European countries. The latest numbers from the EU show that sales of antibiotics for farms fell by 12.7 percent from 2021 to 2022.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

When the measure failed , state green banks were established, beginning in Connecticut in 2011 and operating in 28 states as of last year. Since 2011, green banks have driven $14.8B During that 14 year legislative push, the organization has helped establish 20 local green banks and mobilize $9B in clean energy financing.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

The organization is primarily responsible for protecting a river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean some 200 miles southeast of Juliette, but the Ocmulgee River is one of the Altamaha’s northern tributaries, so any risk to it and its surroundings could wind up in the Riverkeeper’s purview. Coal ash ponds were long exempt from this rule.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S. Tiger abuse in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. A 2020 report for CCS transportation infrastructure in Europe lays out a plan as if it’s feasible and used this map of possible pipeline routes and dump sites from a published 2011 paper. Good question.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Today, philanthropy has been strategically accepted for the sole benefit of the ‘organization’, not for others. billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The March, 2011). Microsoft giant Bill Gates and Facebook giant Mark Zuckerberg have been donating from their profits. Robin Rogers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The issue of whether a discussion in an EIR is sufficient is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review, though underlying factual determinations in an EIR are subject to a more deferential standard. Background for Appeal.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 8, 2019

The issue of whether a discussion in an EIR is sufficient is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review, though underlying factual determinations in an EIR are subject to a more deferential standard. Background for Appeal.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Since 2011, the state has spent more than $3 billion on it, largely to upgrade sewage and drinking water plants. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In 2011, the Haynesville shale was the top producer of gas in the U.S. Last week, the commission established a new Office of Public Participation, which aims to allow smaller organizations and individuals access to FERC’s proceedings, which commissioners have acknowledged are complex. This is the importance of this nomination.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. He cited a dredging project that he oversaw when he was president of Plaquemines Parish that helped protect the coast from oil that was washing up from the BP oil disaster in 2011. A couple days later Gov.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. We would love to chat!

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