DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Secretary, given the increased use of [fossil fuels], has increased over the last century by an average of 10 percent worldwide; around the year 2000 this increase could reach 25 percent, with ‘catastrophic’ consequences on climate.” “ [C]arbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a recent report by the U.N.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. FERC , 217 F.3d 3d 24, 28 (1st Cir. See Town of Norwood v. New England Power Co. ,

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Out of habit, I will say, ‘3000 psi — pounds per square inch — concrete,’ when I really only need 2000. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws. These could be fly ash, slag or silica materials.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000. Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 5, 2020

In the first global report on dam construction areas, it has been revealed that most governments are bypassing or rolling back laws in order to construct dams in these protected areas. For example, two hydropower projects in Romania pose a danger to Natura 2000 sites. More than 1,200 dams already exist in such areas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. According to the California Air Resources Board , livestock emissions in 2019 “are 18 per cent higher than 2000 levels”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Front And Centered

JULY 21, 2020

Consider that in the 2000 Presidential election, if Black voters in Florida hadn’t been robbed of their right to vote , we may have elected a President who would have addressed global warming. Constitution promised former slaves equal protection under the law. Alongside these evils, the U.S. Racism has prevented the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Other posts in this series covered Rethinking the Reliability of the Grid In 2000, the electricity grid earned the distinction as the top engineering achievement of the twentieth century by the National Academy of Engineering. A shorter version of this article was published in Utility Dive.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

obtained the documents via Freedom of Information laws, while the New York Times later received the documents from the University of California. Unearthed, the investigative arm of environmental charity Greenpeace U.K., The Rise of the “Greenhouse Gas Guru”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. In March of 2000, they ran several stories that promoted GMO agriculture, while downplaying the dangers of pesticides and climate change. For several years, the Heartland Institute published a monthly newspaper called “Environment and Climate News.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The case is represented by lawyers Luca Saltalamacchia, an expert in human and environmental rights protection; Raffaele Cesari, an expert in civil environmental law; and Michele Carducci, an expert in climate law from the University of Salento in Puglia. This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. View on DocumentCloud.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. But we were not required to by law. First of all, what they are, for people who do not know or remember them, and how those came to be. McDonough: I was in Hannover, working there with Michael. We wrote them from New York.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She draws upon years of data gathered from climate protests as early as COP6 in 2000 and lessons from the world’s response to COVID-19 to understand how civil society has responded to 30 years of ineffectual international climate negotiations.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce and have been frequent violators of state and federal laws. Credit: USFWS. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law. Low-cost DNA sequencing: the cost of whole human genome sequencing has dropped precipitously, from $2.7B What’s become clear is that we’re in the midst of a synbio and fermentation revolution.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking. I think you have something like 40,000 trading members, with $2.5 million worth of trade last year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Shortly after starting his job at NW Natural in 2000, Dye discovered that the company was losing less gas than it assumed, partly because of inaccuracies in how the utility accounted for variations in temperature and pressure across its service territory. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

They accurately predicted that the scientific community would become confident that human-caused global warming was underway around the year 2000, the median estimate of nearly a dozen speculative reports Exxon conducted 15 to 20 years earlier. . The study finds other examples of how Exxon’s scientists foresaw the future.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

On Monday, Griddy was shut down by ERCOT for failure to pay its bills, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the company on the grounds that it violated state deceptive trade practices law by failing to disclose that risk or prepare financially to protect its customers. Larger power companies are also feeling the pinch.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Alongside French environmental groups Surfrider Foundation Europe and Zero Waste France, ClientEarth claims Danone - the firm behind leading brands such as Evian, Activia, and Volvic - is failing to comply with French environmental, health, and human rights laws.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It does, however, expect to reduce emissions intensity 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2030. NV Energy has signed massive solar-plus-battery contracts and must decarbonize completely according to a new Nevada state law. Entergy’s climate strategy has focused on swapping old gas and coal plants for new gas plants.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Electricity was produced almost entirely from nuclear and coal; natural gas wouldn’t be used in a power plant until 2000. Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. Scientists were just beginning to grasp the gravity of climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Fifth National Climate Assessment, or NCA5, is the latest in a series of national reports published every several years since 2000. But that’s not something that is considered as part of the policies and laws in place for disaster relief and response. The spotlight Yesterday, the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Wind energy planning participation has been characterized by a “decide-announce-defend” model, in which communities are expected to either support or oppose a project (Wolsink 2000). 1 (2000): 49–64. developments.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

Some targets are enshrined in corporate governance structures or national law, whereas others are mere statements of ambition; some plan to account for all greenhouse gas emissions and make reductions across their entire value chain, whereas others focus on carbon dioxide alone and only cover emissions generated by a firm's direct operations.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. But we were not required to by law. First of all, what they are, for people who do not know or remember them, and how those came to be. McDonough: I was in Hannover, working there with Michael. It is really hard.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

“The [Colorado] river itself is bearing a huge burden for this, in terms of the environmental flows of the river,” said John Fleck, writer-in-residence at the Utton Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Perhaps that’s the biggest cost, because we tend to give that part of the system short shrift.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. A graph projecting that the concentration of CO2 would reach 380 parts per million (ppm) by 2000 proved to be broadly accurate — the actual value that would be recorded at the turn of the century was close to 370 ppm. In 1980, Wilson used it to lobby U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. It has been shown in petrified human remains that we have been eating insects since prehistoric times.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. Current federal laws give the company confidence that these imports are legitimate. “As

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Conservative MPs have voiced concerns over the potential purchase and the danger of foreign influence, asking the UK government to use national security laws to investigate the agreement. Majority Strategies received more than $27 million during the 2022 election cycle, including $9.2 million from the Republican Senate Leadership Fund.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Since 2008, Bouma had been president of Capitol Connection, a firm that she joined in 2000. In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov. While there, she lobbied on behalf of Marathon Petroleum, according to lobbying filings.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

“I see this campaign as undermining access to justice and a warning off to anyone who dares stand up and fight for the level of transformation needed in Irish agriculture,” Attracta Uí Bhroin , environmental law officer with the Irish Environmental Network told DeSmog. “As From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

“I see this campaign as undermining access to justice and a warning off to anyone who dares stand up and fight for the level of transformation needed in Irish agriculture,” Attracta Uí Bhroin , environmental law officer with the Irish Environmental Network told DeSmog. “As From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily.

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