GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". Some evidence suggests that these fears have come true.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. In 2018 St.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. The 2018 Three ? China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Environmental law requires a range of skills, from technical to interpersonal. Chinyere also cited collaboration as an important skill in public interest law. Chinyere originally set out to do criminal law. Those interested in advocacy also may not know that law school is one of many paths to a satisfying career.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Knobloch brings more than 30 years of experience leading and building effective mission-driven organizations in the business, government, and non-profit sectors with a focus on advancing clean energy and climate change solutions. Hanna will remain on the incubator’s Board of Directors.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. When [people and organizations] are forced to spend money and time in courts, this discourages them from activism,” she says. Speaking Out.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state. Eight more Western U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

Koch Foundation, an organization linked to Koch Industries. The Macdonald Laurier Institute has partnered with Atlas on a campaign to discourage the Canadian government from implementing laws that would give Indigenous communities greater power to push against oil and gas projects on their land.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

My journey into this topic started when an Ohio community organizer told me someone made a liquid deicer out of radioactive oilfield waste for home driveways and patios, which was supposedly “Safe for Pets” and had been selling at Lowe’s. law, it is still considered nonhazardous. much of it toxic and radioactive. And yet, by U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Between 2018 and 2020, Bobov Dol burned a mixture of sub-bituminous coal, which the Executive Environmental Agency (EEA) says should have an emissions factor of 96.1, Between 2018 and 2020, Bobov Dol burned a mixture of sub-bituminous coal, which the Executive Environmental Agency (EEA) says should have an emissions factor of 96.1,

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. It’s a living, integral part of your business that needs room to grow organically, adjust flexibly, and evolve to your company’s changing needs. Risk Management. Returns on Capital.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Since 2018, the activist has faced “intimidation, harassment, persecution, smear campaigns & death threats” by public officials because of her work. ?? According to the Mexican Centre for Environmental Law, people attacked 65 environmental defenders in 2020 and murdered 18. She hasn’t been seen since Oct. Where does this end?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2018). In 2018 Thailand indefinitely shut down one of its most popular beaches, Maya Bay. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Thailand earned US57.5 billion in tourism at the close of 2017.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

As of 2018, women held only 20.8% Our organization is inclusive and events are open to people of all genders. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. The following example shows how.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the northern California community and killed at least 85 people. “We The trade association “played a key role in creating climate denialist organizations such as the Global Climate Coalition,” Franta said. Some insurance companies are backing away from the state due to the outsized risks.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

James Parish until we started working to stop Formosa Plastics,” Sharon Lavigne, a Goldman Prize winner for her grassroots environmental work and founder of the community organization RISE St. James was founded in 2018 and initially focused on a proposed $1.25 James, said in a statement. Sharon Lavinge, founder of RISE St.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a job applicant, you have the right to know and understand the categories of personal information we collect about you, and the purposes for which we use such personal information, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). Credentialing and licensing organizations. Prior employers (e.g., for references).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

million since June 2018. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. Few of the posts flagged that they were paid adverts (something that wasn’t required under Indian law until this year ), though they all used a similar format and included Shell corporate hashtags.

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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

Dennis Carroll, a scientist who used to be with the CDC and USAID , along with a few collaborators shared in a paper they published in Science (2018) about the risks humans faced from a pandemic spillover. Knowing all this, and the risks inherent in not taking action, the EPA put together America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) 2018.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The Innovation Award for the fellow who recommends the most creative approach to reducing a host organization’s emissions or an innovative solution for overcoming barriers. Radhika also manages a global coalition of over 30 leading organizations to spur innovation in the air conditioning industry through the Global Cooling Prize.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act. United States.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. “When I first read the letter, I nearly cried.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.” Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Photo from Phil Roeder via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In July of 2018, an Italian-flagged oil supply ship called the Asso 28 that was crossing the Mediterranean Sea encountered a stalled rubber raft carrying a hundred desperate migrants. Those captains who, unlike Sotgiu, abide by humanitarian law and decide to bring the migrants to Europe sometimes face dire consequences.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. from Brooklyn Law School. Louis and a B.A.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In 2018, Dahl and her team set out to understand its mica supply chain, including how much verifiable information was available about working conditions and child labor. The organization and its members have set out to map the flows of mica, starting at the mines. Dialing for details.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2021

But a filing from the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, claims that Duke’s analysis is “riddled with inaccurate data, unrealistic assumptions, and flawed methodologies. GW to 16.4 GW of new solar and 1 GW to 7.5

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

For example, the East Lansing Community Solar Park opened in December 2018 with 1,000 solar panels, developed by Michigan EIBC member Michigan Energy Options in partnership with the Lansing Board of Water and Light (Lansing BWL), the City of East Lansing, and Michigan EIBC member Pivot Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. meetings per week with gas and nuclear players between January 2018 and July 7, 2020. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Institutional capital accounted for just 2% of total direct investment in renewables in 2018. While IRENA has not looked into the latest statistics for institutional investors, the organization acknowledged an overall positive trend for renewable energy investment. He expects that advantage to grow bigger every year. “I

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Washington’s solar workforce grew by eighteen percent from 2018-2017. Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further.

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