Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the Marine Conservation Society , Richard Haward’s Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm as they argue that the Government’s strategy is inadequate, allowing water companies to pollute waters and beaches for another 27 years. million hours.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

Defra promises 'robust, evidence led process' to set in statute air, water, waste and biodiversity targets by the end of October 2022. A credible Environment Bill has to help protect the Amazon and other disappearing habitats with tough new nature laws to eliminate deforestation from the products we buy.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. The people of Honolulu are now one step closer to putting these polluters on trial. There were also some setbacks, for instance, the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government could yet again find itself in court over dangerous levels of air pollution, with the latest official data showing the UK is on track to miss legal targets for four out of five pollutants covered by a crucial piece of clean air legislation, ClientEarth has warned.

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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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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2022

As frontline communities we are increasing the self-determination and solutions of our communities — those disproportionately impacted by pollution, damage to the climate, and an inequitable economy — to accelerate systemic change together. But the existing law says nothing about climate pollution, resilience, or environmental justice.

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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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Charged

MAY 23, 2022

This 500 big ones represents the first round of funding from the $5-billion investment authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The EPA will accept funding applications from May 20 through August 19, 2022. With these funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are paving the way for cleaner air and healthier communities.

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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 Environmental Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Thousands of individuals were exposed to dangerous substances from 1953 to 1987 due to the dangerously polluted water at the Military Station, Camp Lejeune. A new federal law, though, is nearing completion. Up until this point, victims of Camp Lejeune have been unable to sue the government for this exposure due to North Carolina law.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 20, 2022

It’s been about six weeks since the 2022 legislative session came to a close and we now have a clear picture of what passed, what didn’t, and what work there is left to do in our work to change the rules of our state to advance a Just Transition to Climate and Environmental Justice. Front and Centered Core Priorities.

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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. million in 2022. and Tesla.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. When lobbying firms represent both the polluter and the people experiencing pollution, it represents a pretty clear conflict of interest,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 7, 2024

Starting this year, pollution from the power sector is likely to start dropping, with a 2 percent drop in the amount of fossil fuel-powered electricity projected for 2024 — a decline Ember expects to speed up in the long term. The US is switching one fossil fuel for another,” Jones said.

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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. Freshwater City site after the wastewater disposal well was plugged on Exxon’s property in April 2022.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Louisiana Oilfield Site Restoration Commission meeting on April 21, 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. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

He compared it to the Indian Act of 1876, a notorious federal law that attempted to erase the culture of First Nations peoples. DeSmog previously reported that Buffalo’s group received $200,000 from CNRL between 2020 and 2022. The IRC received $250,000 from CNRL in 2022 alone.

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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. As it stands, the government is going ahead with its Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which aims to remove hundreds of EU-derived environmental laws by the end of 2023. million hectares.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

GreenPower plans to begin production at the facility by the second half of 2022. This is a 2022 and beyond company with a sustainable product for the long run.”. GreenPower Motor Company has signed a lease/purchase agreement for a manufacturing facility in South Charleston, West Virginia, where it will produce electric school buses.

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Charged

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Clean School Bus Program, part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law , makes $5 billion in rebates available over five years for school districts to purchase electric or low-emission school buses. As many as 25 million children rely on the bus to get to school each day,” said EPA Administrator Michael S.

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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. James, October 22, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. But these 26 cases are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to fossil fuel pollution. A desperate attempt by big polluters to delay the transition to renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. To top it all off, funding for the Canadian Energy Centre comes directly from the province’s tax on industrial polluters.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

From 2021 to 2022, home and rent prices have spiked due to a widening gap between supply and demand, causing over 9 million homebuyers to be priced out of the housing market. While the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is a historic step towards nation-wide sustainability for the U.S., The current state of housing across the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand the regulations and take steps to mitigate the impact the ban might have on their day-to-day activities. All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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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

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

MAY 9, 2024

The tax was launched in 2022 and aimed to raise £5 billion in its first year, but the policy contained loopholes including tax relief on investments in UK fossil fuel extraction. The tax raised £2.6 billion in its first year. “The Households want lower bills, energy security and an economy fit for the future.

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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. The former Home Secretary Priti Patel cited tactics used by Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain when arguing for what became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The court’s ruling, which upholds the trial court’s March 2022 decisions denying defendants’ motions to dismiss the case, means that Honolulu’s lawsuit will advance to the evidence-gathering phase known as discovery and, ultimately, to a jury trial. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.” “Not

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries. As I've done for the past decade , I'm offering a recap of some of the stories and trends from the year just ending, culled from the nearly 1,300 stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2022.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

A whole ecosystem of enablers and advisors have come under pressure over the past decade for their ties to the fossil fuel industry, and 2022 may be the year where those companies are forced to choose between the energy system of the past, and the one that is rapidly coming into development in response to Russia's invasion.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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