Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations. DeSmog revealed earlier this week that Drax is applying intense pressure across government departments to influence energy policy in its favour.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 18, 2020

This week: The many ways that dirty energy has controlled the politics of clean energy. Dr. Leah Stokes, an expert on interest groups and their influence over policy, joins the gang. Her new book, Short Circuiting Policy , is the focus of our episode. Recommended reading: Leah Stokes : Short Circuiting Policy.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

The Biden administration pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade under that agreement. “A Trump replaced the Obama administration’s proposed power plant pollution rules with his own weaker measures, which a federal court blocked before they could be implemented.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and the pollution standards, which are open for public comment until August 8, will mark a new milestone in climate action. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Long-term environmental policy observers will note that the EPA’s beginning coincided with a burst of public interest and participation to clean up America’s degraded skies, water and land. Bipartisan politics largely died. Both parties used environmental policy, and the EPA, as a weapon against their political opponents.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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). . Rather, I'm here to highlight that candidates who support clean energy policy are also supporting economic, climate and social justice policies. .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists. The party is hostile to climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

The group’s intervention comes as new data shows that, although Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations decreased marginally between 2021 and 2022, air pollution remains at illegal and unsafe levels in areas across the country. Post-pandemic progress on air pollution reduction nationally is now plateauing. ”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Carbon capture and storage, and the extension of the technology, CCUS, has been touted by major polluters as a way to cut their production emissions to meet climate targets. Doug Parr, chief scientist and policy director at Greenpeace, told DeSmog that CCS “has been used and continues to be used as a cover for fossil fuel exploitation”. “If

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate tech for social change, welcomes five new climate fellows to its Policy Lab. Created in 2021, the Policy Lab was founded to accelerate and implement solutions at the seam of technology, policy, equity and justice.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

So, I’m not holding out hope for a federal circular economy policy any time soon (I’ll let the EU take the lead on that front). The most ambitious bill that could come across Biden’s desk is the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act , introduced earlier this year by Sen. Count me among them. s outsized plastics footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The post Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canadian Climate Policy Can Go to Trial, Court Rules appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Deep decarbonization only happens if every polluter pays, not just the environmentally conscious.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2020

But for Black people living near industrial facilities, the phrase has an additional layer of meaning: a reminder of their disproportionate pollution burden. It’s impossible to untangle Black communities’ current risks from America’s long history of racist policies and practices. Policy & Politics. Environmental Justice.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Industry Voice: Dow's sustainability director Jihane Ball argues the case for a flexible and ambitious UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution worldwide I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. What is the global plastic pollution treaty and why is it important?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. The 2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum brought together over 100 participants to build momentum and collaboration in achieving carbon reduction goals in the state. 2-Mo-McBroom-Climate-Pollution-limits-slides-mo-UPDATED. 5-Kenneth-Dragoon-RHA-Future-of-Carbon-Policy-Dec-2019.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 22, 2021

We are pleased to welcome Aimee Barnes as our new Senior Policy Advisor as we launch a new policy innovation lab. Now is the time to close the gap between technology and policy. We need a laboratory for policy and technology entrepreneurs to innovate together. Let us explain. $60

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The vast majority of the pollution that damages human health is produced by burning fossil fuels to power our homes, cars, and businesses. The newest version of the Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) finds a set of clean energy policies that achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 would save more than 45,000 lives while preventing 1.3

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

If Republicans do keep control of the upper chamber of Congress, the options for Democrats to push through their wide-ranging energy and climate change policies will narrow significantly — even if Biden wins the election. Murkowski insisted the GOP is not opposed to what she termed "commonsense climate policies."

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yet in response to a Freedom of Information request to see any assessments, evidence or policy papers detailing progress towards the 30×30 target, Defra could provide nothing. It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Giving a clear steer as to the long-term direction of travel is a key principle for policy-makers in effectively using taxes to change behaviour.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. Pearson has claimed that green policies will cause “life as we know it” to “[return] to the pre-industrial age”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This is leadership for the climate and for mobility.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides. The carbon price – or carbon tax, depending on where you sit in Parliament – was always going to be challenging to communicate and was always going to have political enemies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

More than a quarter of online posts attacking low traffic schemes last year came from a science denial group which campaigns against climate policies. The report shows how local schemes to reduce air pollution are being used by political groups to spread conspiracy theories about climate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2024

The latest poll of polls by Politico, released May 24, predicts a hard-right shift by voters for Parliament representatives, followed by related attacks on EU climate policy, which is now one of the lead policy objectives of the right across Europe. The hard-right push won’t make the European policy weather though.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

The ongoing nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands and Flanders illustrates how ineffective management of nutrients can lead to both serious ecological damage and political and societal upheaval. Current policies also often target only nitrogen, even though ecological impacts arise from the disbalance between nitrogen and phosphorus.

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