Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The inauguration of Joe Biden as president is the dawn of a new political era; for the first time, the stars are aligning for the clean energy sector to unleash its full potential. The political sea change is larger than the whims of a single politician. The finance is following as investors see there's money to be made.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They will be joined at the summit by Dr Tedros Adhanom, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, as well as UK Government Ministers. It will be attended by senior business leaders including Amazon, Google, Royal Mail, British Gas and Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Stronberg and Lena Tabori for the Foreign Press Correspondents USA organization on what might be accepted on issues of the day and in anticipation of the November midterm elections. The video is a conversation between Joel B.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

They should also be reporting their climate political activity," the Rhode Island Democrat said at the GreenBiz VERGE Net Zero virtual event on Tuesday. The senator's call reflects a growing disdain over the gap between corporations' decarbonization commitments and their support for political candidates undermining climate action.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’ Mike Hower Thu, 05/13/2021 – 01:45 Getting things done in corporate sustainability is easier said than, well, done. Love it or hate it, politics exists wherever humans come together to take collective action.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The self-organizing, all-volunteer effort has more than 25 active state teams and organized more than 100 grassroots events, which collectively have raised more than $2.6 Why get political now? We don’t write about politics much at GreenBiz (although I’m sure regular Energy Weeklyians have a sense of my personal politics). .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2021

Clean Energy Field Organizer | Iowa Environmental Council | Des Moines. The Iowa Environmental Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit environmental law and policy organization that educates, advocates, and builds coalitions to make Iowa a better place to live, work and explore. Help the organization plan, host, and crowd build for events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The study looked at 214 organizations across five major sectors — coal/steel/rail, oil & gas, utilities, renewable energy, and the environmental movement — and found that electric utilities hired and used PR firms the most out of any other sector analyzed, followed by oil and gas. . PR firms intentionally try to remain invisible.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, asserted (January 27), “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another … we will work with Germany to ensure it (the pipeline) does not move forward.” I document the two narratives in my book “ Oil and World Politics.”

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This story was produced in partnership with OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. Jimmy Cloutier is the political reporter at opensecrets.org. The number of companies and organizations lobbying the federal government on issues related to hydrogen increased nearly tenfold since.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Looking at it as a technology, there is a ton to like about renewables across the political spectrum. . This hasn’t escaped political conservatives outside the beltway. The point is that the concept of energy independence — be it from other nations or your own government — is an attractive idea across the political spectrum. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. The post California Oil and Gas Industry Leans on Political Heavyweights to Drill Wells appeared first on DeSmog.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For Black History Month, Justin Onwenu , a Sierra Club Environmental Justice Organizer based in Detroit, shared with us his thoughts on the environmental movement, organizing, his work in Michigan, and the work that lies ahead to dismantle environmental injustices. But that entire year threw me into organizing work.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2023

For all that those 12 months threw at us — a still-raging pandemic, a global economic downturn, major supply-chain chokepoints, political upheavals, climate exacerbated natural disasters and a global energy crisis spurred by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine — there’s no turning back for sustainability professionals.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Here at Charged , our position has always been that EVs are for everybody, and we’ve watched in disappointment as e-mobility has become a political football. Mike Murphy is a veteran GOP political consultant who has advised John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, among others. Hear, hear!)

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Bipartisan politics largely died. Democrats also abandoned the idea that the EPA should remain as an independent agency and, beginning with the Clinton administration, centralized much of environmental policymaking as part of the White House political operation. Rethinking the EPA’s role in advancing environmental and social justice.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

PUSH Buffalo is a nonprofit grassroots community organization working to build and execute a comprehensive revitalization plan for West Buffalo’s West Side. UPROSE is Brooklyn's foremost Latinx community organization. Panelists explained how their community organizations and business partners have successfully collaborated in the past.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The PM has already begun spending his Christmas political capital at a rate of knots, clearly hoping he can get the controversy out of the way early (a tactic that Mr Cameron would say can have mixed results). The political storm took out many of the Ministers previously associated with the sector.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 26, 2019

In August 2018, Thunberg, fifteen at the time and frustrated by the Swedish government’s lack of political willingness to tackle climate change, stationed herself outside the Swedish parliament with her homemade sign that read “School Strike for Climate.” You are rising to the occasion. We must rise with you.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Dale Vince is looking for a new owner for Ecotricity, the pioneering green energy company he founded off the back of a single wind turbine over 25 years ago, with the entrepreneur considering embarking on a new career in politics, he revealed today.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2021

Biden and the future of clean energy politics Sarah Golden Fri, 01/22/2021 – 01:00 Have you heard about the clean energy triangle? The inauguration of Joe Biden as president is the dawn of a new political era; for the first time, the stars are aligning for the clean energy sector to unleash its full potential.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Gabriella Harlamert, coordinator of the Audubon Nature Institute’s wildlife stranding network , says the organization is trying to build up its resources, and that it now has its first boat on order. Political leaders and residents in coastal areas that will be impacted by these diversions largely agree with the Lt.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A recent poll conducted by The EV Politics Project appeared to confirm this narrative—49 percent of Republican respondents took a negative view of “electric car brands,” and a majority of Republican respondents agreed with the statement: “EVs are for people who see the world differently than I do.” Source: CNN

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this episode of Political Climate , we examine if environmental issues are mobilizing voters the way that analysts anticipated. We also consider how fracking and natural disasters are playing into the 2020 election cycle, as well as the rise of “big green” political donors. Who are those voters and do they hold sway?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So how do you elect political candidates who will make the issue a priority? In this episode of Political Climate , we speak to two groups attempting to figure that out and put climate change at the center of races up and down the ballot. PAC, a political action committee tracking key races in the U.S. Vote Climate U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That pain point was the inspiration for a new climate data project launched this week that will be spearheaded by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit host organization for thousands of the most influential open source software and data initiatives in the world such as GitHub. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Avoid the politics if possible. Unfortunately, the politics of carbon pricing have been highly poisoned in Australia, despite its popularity in a number of countries with conservative governments, including Britain and Germany. percentage points in the sectors it covers. Even Australia’s Labor opposition seems to have given up.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In Biogas: Pathways to 2030, WBA details how deploying AD to capture and recycle the billion tonnes of organic wastes generated annually by human activity could play a major part in the fight against climate change. Today, only 2% of this organic matter is treated through AD and transformed into a green gas and a biofertiliser.

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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 organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Four years ago today, many corporate sustainability professionals — regardless of political leanings — stood shocked as they watched Donald Trump clinch the presidency in one of the biggest upsets in American presidential history. The big challenge big companies face as they think about brand advocacy is political risk," Weihl said.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. As America transitions to a white plurality rather than a white majority nation, powerful anxieties and fears have surfaced across culture and politics. Policy & Politics. culture war?

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 27, 2020

So how will climate, cleantech and the environment fit into this new political world? Jeff Nesbit , the executive director of Climate Nexus and co-host of the podcast Climate 2020 , joins the gang for this special joint episode on politics. Priorities USA: Political ad. Biden is hiding out, preparing for the general election.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 26, 2020

So how can organized labor and the environmental movement work together to promote a just and sustainable society? Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Episodes air monthly on the Political Climate podcast feed. Politico : Energy Issues in Stimulus Limbo.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It will take a massive war-time mobilization effort to effectively address the climate emergency, argues Saul Griffith — inventor, MacArthur genius fellow, CEO of Otherlab , and co-founder of Rewiring America , an organization dedicated to creating millions of American jobs while combating climate change. How much will it cost?

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? How can environmental justice best be advanced in a political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white majority? Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve self-organized so our neighbors, friends and social media agree with us, and we gravitate voices who are increasingly vitriolic towards those who don’t. Likewise, I’ve seen environmental organizations categorically demonize pragmatists, despite ultimately wanting the same thing: a safe climate future. Policy & Politics.

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