The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS), which has ruled Poland since 2015 and has slammed the brakes on climate action at home and in the EU, is unlikely to form a government despite having won the most votes in parliamentary elections on 15 October.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Law 144

R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 From less than half a million barrels per day (BPD) in 2015, exports reached 1 million BPD in 2017, 2 million BPD in 2018, 3 million BPD in 2020, and 4 million BPD in 2023. trillion spending bill that contained several energy provisions.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 2, 2024

Background on the Regulation and Changes Imposed in the Final Rule EPA’s 2015 CCR Rule, promulgated pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), imposed requirements on existing and new CCR landfills and CCR surface impoundments, but exempted legacy ponds from those requirements.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 392

DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than their renewable energy peers since 2015. On 1 December 2023, Peiser used an appearance on GB News to claim that “no one is going to build a wind farm or solar farm” if the government scrapped the subsidies for their development.

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Fossil fuels Policy Climate change Government 117

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And a majority of those actors have only expanded production in the intervening years.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. The Good Law Project is campaigning for the Charity Commission to open a formal inquiry into the GWPF’s “one sided research attacking net zero policies”.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Law 145

GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

In order to be patentable, globally harmonized patent law requires innovations to be new and involve an inventive step. And, according to a leading patent database , from 2015 — the year in which the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted — to 2019, the number of patents published per year in this class increased by approximately 40 percent.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Patents 421

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Some 91,000 claimants are to receive average payments of more than £2,100 each after joining a class action law suit that alleged the German car maker had misled them when it installed 'defeat devices' in its vehicles that allowed them to pass emissions tests they would have otherwise failed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Up to 600,000 cars sold to UK drivers over a 10-year period may have been installed with defeat devices, according to law firm fronting mass claim. A Vauxhall spokesperson rejected Vauxhall Pay Up's allegations and insisted its vehicles complied with the law. Our vehicles meet the applicable regulations.".

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2020

Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, wrote in a tweet that NERA’s petition “seeks to end net metering as we know it.” The day after NERA’s filing, FERC set a May 14 deadline for parties that might oppose or support it to file comments that could influence its decision.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 246

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Law Policy Global warming Fossil fuels 98

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Whilst there were improvements in 2020, no single company achieved all the expectations for the period 2015 to 2020. ” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 15% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025, 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050. Federal law requires weighing the options. environmental goals. Sign up today.].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Lawyers representing Grande-Synthe argued that the government was legally bound by the target, as well as its duties under the Paris Agreement, the European Convention on Human Rights, and French environmental law more broadly, and said current policies were not sufficient to meet them. Climate Justice History’. million signatories.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. This is a meritless case, and we await the court’s decision,” said Nick Paulocci, director of public affairs and press secretary of the NYC Law Department.

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Fossil fuels Law Climate change Investment 101

GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

Dominion has long held significant political influence in its home state; laws passed in 2015 and 2018 limited oversight of customer rates and large capital projects from the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). billion when it began in 2015 to as much as $8 billion, according to estimates this year.

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Natural gas Energy Energy Law 130

DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

According to Johnathan White, lawyer and expert on corporate climate accountability at environmental law charity ClientEarth, this is because sustainability communication has “gone through the roof,” especially over the past five years. Corporate greenwashing is not only effective, it’s also increasing. That’s how PR strategies work.”

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Pollution Fossil fuels Law Carbon-negative 84

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

Environmental and health and safety law imposes certain duties on site operators which, if not complied with, can result in legal proceedings, fines and reputational damage. For example, if the spill affects neighbouring land there can be claims for clean-up costs under the law of nuisance. But it doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Company admitted to 6,971 illegal spills from 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent and West Sussex between 2010 and 2015. The company accepted there had been 6,971 illegal spills from 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent, and West Sussex between 2010 and 2015 following legal action from the Environment Agency.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

million since September 2015. The Good Law Project has been urging the Charity Commission to launch an investigation into the GWPF, claiming that the charitable foundation funds non-charitable lobbying work by Net Zero Watch. The GWPF’s income has fallen markedly since a high point of £426,000 in the year ending September 2019.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Politics Global warming 130

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Candy Ofime and Jean-Mobert Senga, Amnesty International researchers and co-authors of the report, said: “We found repeated breaches of legal safeguards prescribed in international human rights law and standards, and national legislation, as well as blatant disregard for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”

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Batteries Fossil fuels Demand Law 130

DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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Fossil fuels Politics Global warming Policy 106

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The organisation is currently facing down a complaint to the UK Charity Commission, made by a cross-party group of MPs and the Good Law Project, who say the GWPF is not a charity, but rather a political lobbying group.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Law 95

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

District Court for the District of Oregon on Monday, attorneys with Our Children’s Trust – the Oregon-based nonprofit law firm spearheading youth-led constitutional climate litigation in the U.S. First filed in 2015, Juliana is currently awaiting a ruling in the district court on the U.S. In a filing with the U.S. That case, Juliana v.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Policy 77

R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Law firm Haynes and Boone recently released its updated Energy Bankruptcy Reports. These reports cover North American oil and gas producers, oilfield services and midstream bankruptcies from the beginning of 2015 through 2019. billion in aggregate debt. billion in aggregate debt. Texas again led the way with 102 bankruptcies.

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Energy Monitor Natural gas Law Sustainability 60

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations. The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, painted a stark picture of our world.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In 2015 the solar and wind industries bargained for extensions by agreeing to allow the credits to phase down, but they have since changed their tune: The wind and solar industries have both been publicly lobbying for continued tax credits. Department of Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Government promises to enshrine target to achieve 65 per cent recycling rate by 2035 in UK law as it publishes new Circular Economy Plan. Its great news that the government has listened to our call to enshrine the ambitious 65 per cent recycling target into UK law," she said.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 20, 2020

In 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse attributed climate disinformation to the fossil fuel industry and their Republicans minions. They sent a letter signed by 27 right-wing think tanks encouraging law-makers to block aid to solar and wind companies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Greg Gianforte signed it into law on March 16. Gunderson claimed that the repeal was intended to “[follow] the governor’s red tape reduction plan in that it removes a bloated bag of air that only takes up space” in state law. “It Zinke was also on the board of oil pipeline company QS Energy from 2012 to 2015. Republican Gov.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 24, 2023

The company — which now seems to be defunct — made the following claim: “We haven’t broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics or anything. That is a fundamental law of thermodynamics. In fact, more than a decade ago, I addressed essentially the same claims from a British company called Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS).

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Hydrogen Electric vehicle Law Waste 60

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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