Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The question now is will political parties provide the leadership, stability and investment needed to generate further growth or shy away from the global race for net zero.” Thousands of jobs depend on net zero in constituencies right across the country, including many key battleground seats. billion of private investment during 2021-2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

“Dr Furfari appears to tick all the boxes for membership of the Foundation’s so-called Academic Advisory Council”, said Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. “He Furfari and Climate Denial. Fred Singer.

Climate change 84

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

ComEd also faces an uphill battle in efforts to win an extension of a plan in place since 2011 that allows it to file its capital expansion plans under formula rate updates, rather than through a traditional rate-making process with the Illinois Commerce Commission. Formula rate extension and Chicago grid takeover both remain uncertain.

Nuclear Power 238

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Private entities should think of themselves as community members and view local residents as political and economic partners. For Yeampierre of UPROSE, the most successful partnerships have been ones in which businesses joined local initiatives and shared the same political and environmental goals as the community.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Wyner, a University of Pennsylvania statistician and co-author of a 2011 paper in the Annals of Applied Statistics that challenged Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph showing a pronounced jump in global temperatures last century. A key part of this strategy was last week’s testimony of Abraham J. Cherry Picking?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. Anti-Net Zero Campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Chevron and other oil companies’ statements about climate change, Gibson Dunn has argued, constitute First Amendment protected “political speech” — or speech concerning public opinion and policy. (You may also recognize Gibson Dunn as the firm that accused U.S. Federal Election Commission , which opened the floodgates to dark money in U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2021

Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic kill more than a half million people in the United States, it laid bare and heightened existing crises, including systemic racism and police violence, climate change and an ever-widening political and economic divide. Women hold 54 per cent of CSO positions, up from 28 per cent in 2011.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Porter wrote articles in 2011 supporting economic “austerity” and urging then Prime Minister David Cameron, who went on to “ cut the green crap ”, not to be “timid” about cuts to government spending. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

“Clearly we need to change our regulatory focus to protect the people, not profits,” said Tom “Smitty” Smith, a now-retired former director of Public Citizen, an Austin-based consumer advocacy group who advocated for changes after in 2011 when Texas faced a similar energy crisis. Lessons from 2011.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Fresh from discussions with colleagues about how to use pricing mechanisms to reduce overall road transport energy demand in the context of a shift towards electric vehicles, my thoughts turned to what would have accrued to the Treasury if fuel duty hadn't been ‘frozen' back in 2011. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 29, 2023

Carlson holds a MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in History & Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin. and Houston, Texas, Greentown Labs is home to more than 200 startups and has supported more than 500 since the incubator’s founding in 2011. With incubators in Somerville, Mass.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Pockets of development later formed in Hawaii and the Desert Southwest, and in the less sunny but politically supportive New England states. Finn-Foley displayed the Energy Information Administration's projections for national solar deployment from 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 The speaking bureau Speaker’s Spotlight described him at the time as “one of Canada’s most provocative and insightful commentators on political and economic issues.” Coyne was also a sought out public speaker.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture.

Fossil fuels 75

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Charged

JULY 26, 2022

The research team estimates that the federal government could have saved $2 billion, or an average of $1,440 per EV sold, if the federal subsidy between 2011 and 2019 had been delivered as an immediate rebate instead of a tax credit. billion package of infrastructure investment. Source: George Washington University.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

HAC is a coalition of more than 50 countries that was formed in 2011 to encourage internal action on the climate crisis prior to the Paris Agreement. It was formed in Durban in 2011 and has been at the forefront of encouraging international action on the climate crisis. and Costa Rica. Greenpeace U.K.’s

Biodiversity 36

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Unsustainable

APRIL 17, 2020

Harari, 2011) Urbanisation provides a myriad of benefits and resources that ensure a life of convenience and longevity, yet more often than not it can also make us feel ‘alienated, depressed and pressured.’ 2011) Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind London: Vintage Books. 17 June.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 27, 2020

She holds a degree in political science with a specialization in public policy. Matt Wayland, IBEW Matt Wayland began in the Canadian office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in 2011. She is based in Toronto.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2021

Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic kill more than a half million people in the United States, it laid bare and heightened existing crises, including systemic racism and police violence, climate change and an ever-widening political and economic divide. Women hold 54 percent of CSO positions, up from 28 percent in 2011.

Sustainability 36

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Chatterjee's term at FERC ends in mid-2021, which would give the Biden administration an opportunity to nominate a Democrat to fill his seat, which could change the political balance at the traditionally non-partisan agency. Not all of FERC’s upcoming decisions are as politically fraught.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

You still have a huge political/resiliency hole that #nuclear has to fill. average annual growth from 2011-2021. However, the world needs safe nuclear reactor designs, effective waste disposal solutions, and more political support. solar will grow as fast as it physically can and won’t be 100%. Every model shows it.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2022

In addition to decades of public disinformation , oil and gas executives have fought to control political and even scientific discussions of the climate problem and its potential solutions. In 2021 alone, they spent more than $82 million , including $577,000 in campaign contributions to Sen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Heatwaves and droughts caused by climate change are expected to be a major driver of looming global food shortages, with the resulting fallout set to ramp up human suffering, political instability and economic inflation from next year, consulting giant McKinsey has warned.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 27, 2020

The fossil fuel industry controls academia , politicians and political outcomes. Although the tale of political corruption is as old as time, in the U.S. According to the Center for Responsive Politics he’s given American Crossroads $2 million in 2018. They have a long history of disinformation and political interference.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. and global politics. politics for the past 100-plus years. politics further and further toward right-wing, corporate-created policy solutions. All of these entities, and the groups they fund or work alongside in coalitions, remain powerful forces within U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Despite this, illegal beavers started appearing elsewhere, most conspicuously on the River Tay, also in Scotland, perhaps since 2011, according to the “?Save political support, and it may be that they will spread by themselves. These legally permitted beavers were allowed but only under strict guard. Beavers look to be ?on public and

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

On Wednesday night, with my political hat on, I proposed a motion to Newcastle City Council for zero waste by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

It’s not just an ecological or climate crisis, but also a food, energy, social, economic, political crisis that creates a kind of powder keg. HH: In 2011, at the time of the Tunisian revolution, the revolutionary council in the southern oasis town of Jemna recaptured land that had been taken away from them during colonial times.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

David Cox co-founded the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas in July 2011 and serves its members as CFO. He has extensive experience advising companies and elected officials on regulatory, political and public policy matters.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2019

A 2013 study in Environmental Research Letters found 97 percent of climate scientists agreed with this link in 12,000 academic papers that contained the words “global warming” or “global climate change” from 1991 to 2011. The pushback has been political rather than scientific. In the U.S.,

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Global warming Climate change Cooling Politics 81

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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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Trump was impeached for an alleged quid pro quo in which he demanded that the Ukraine dig up dirt on his political opponent in exchange for releasing the military aid allocated by Congress. More than a half dozen Trump political associates have been indicted so far including his former lawyer.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Truss did not meet any other political groups during her trip. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2011, DeSmog revealed that FTI Consulting’s “Energy In Depth” campaign was launched on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, a US oil and gas lobby group, to support fracking for shale gas, with funding from BP, Halliburton, Chevron, Shell and a firm later bought by ExxonMobil.

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