DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The TV ad, which aired in 2021, was shown to the participants of a recent study , published in May 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.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? Jonathan Foley.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. They defend 18.8

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit. Ministers have insisted that the process was necessary to ensure continuity of environmental legislation.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thu, 02/04/2021 - 02:11. His 2021 letter to CEOs mentions "accelerate" eight times. The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030. First, asking for company ESG data is entry-level stuff in 2021. Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. The Big Stories of 2021. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Here we go. Business defends democracy.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. Advance Just Climate Investments and Prevent Pollution Trading Schemes. Transition to renewable resources.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those and other provisions in Virginia’s sweeping Clean Economy Act now face political uncertainty, though policy experts predict that much of the 2020 law will be able to withstand a partisan challenge thanks to Democrats’ narrow control of the state Senate. The result of the two laws has been a flood of renewable energy projects.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country. Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

Senate and hailed by Joe Biden as a key tool to tackle the climate crisis includes billions of dollars to support a supposedly clean fuel that is potentially even more polluting than coal, new research has found. But others are more upbeat about the use of hydrogen to help lower emissions in some stubbornly polluting sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:30. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens. Authorized pollution releases in individual permit decisions also should be evaluated within the context of cumulative risk across specific airsheds or watersheds. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company took in construction, demolition and household waste in rented premises in Maypole Crescent on the Darent Industrial Estate for 11 months across 2021 and 2022. Matt Higginson, an environment manager for the Environment Agency in south London and Kent, said: “Jack Selby broke the law for financial gain.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

EPA administrator Michael Regan during the EPA’s “Journey to Justice” tour on November 16th, 2021. USEPA photo by Eric Vance The Verge spoke to EPA administrator Michael Regan about the agency’s new rules for power plant pollution. The agency also set new limits on mercury emissions, water pollution, and coal ash from power plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The setting of new legal targets is a key part of the Environment Act 2021. There were 372,533 sewage discharges in 2021 , polluting our waterways for 2,667,452 hours. million hectares.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Water company sentenced for polluting a watercourse in Bradford with unauthorised sewage discharges in 2018. for polluting a Bradford watercourse and breaching environmental law following a successful prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.6m On top of the £1.6m

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Old Eldon Brickworks in Eldon, Bishop Auckland: involving Waldron – as a director of Falcons Two Ltd – who failed to comply with an enforcement notice and kept waste in a manner likely to cause pollution. This led to a major fire at the site in August 2020.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

The weakened rule “does all of those things by improving fuel economy, continuing to reduce air pollution, and making new vehicles more affordable for all Americans.”. As the rest of the world develops innovative technologies to increase efficiency and reduce air pollution, American automakers will be encouraged to focus on gas guzzlers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Australia's biggest polluters to face binding 2030 carbon targets. The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. EU wind installations up by a third in 2022.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. 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. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A major investigation into the management of wastewater treatment works in England was announced by the EA and Ofwat in November 2021, at the same time as a new Environment Act became law. Additional stages can be added to the process train to remove pollutants such as phosphorous where required by a permit.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

The GWPF has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. “If Since 2021, GB News has bet the farm on opposing climate action, and persuading the government that rowing back on climate commitments would win votes.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. And President Biden has a goal of creating a 100 percent carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, which will help the US keep commitments it made under the Paris climate agreement.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Norilsk, the world’s most northern city, has been dubbed one of the world’s most polluted cities by experts. The small city of about 176,000 started experiencing its pollution during the early days of the Soviet Union. This single company has been blamed for the pollution affecting the city.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. A 2021 McGill University study estimated that one-tenth of the U.S. That’s not the same as saying that it’s not possible.”

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In 2021 alone, water companies discharged sewage into English rivers more than 370,000 times. A chemical cocktail of sewage, agricultural waste and plastic is polluting our river systems. We are inevitably disappointed that the government rejected some of our recommendations, most notably on pollution from intensive poultry farms.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The report directs the agency to review its rules, as required by the Clean Air Act, for both of these carcinogenic air pollutants, which newer scientific evidence has found raise the cancer risk for people living near facilities emitting them. John the Baptist Parish — has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air pollution.

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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. Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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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. Levy was selected to sit on Louisiana’s Oilfield Site Restoration Commission in 2021 because of his knowledge of the oil and gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2024

The announcement represents a milestone for environmental justice in communities historically overburdened by air-toxics pollution. Credit: Julie Dermansky Community members argue that the parish council didn’t weigh the potential damage from the plant’s pollution against its economic benefits.

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