DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2020

Known as the Section 29 Unconventional Fuels Production Tax Credit, this subsidy resulted in more than tripling the production of unconventional gas, at a cost of at least $10 billion to taxpayers, from 1980 to 2002.

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JULY 20, 2023

The RPS program was established in 2002 with an initial requirement that 20% of electricity retail sales be served by renewable resources by 2017. The goal was raised to 33% by 2020 and was met in 2018. The latest goal is to reach 60% by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Date: 23 February 2024 Time: 13:00 CET / 15:00 EAT Registration: Register via this link Speaker: Kai Imolauer, Rödl & Partner Kai has been with Rödl & Partner since 2002 and currently leads the energy industry team specializing in investments in the field of renewable energies while also acting as Project Manager for the GRMF.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

” First designed in 2002, the system is seemingly used across Europe and has been deployed as both a flood defence and to hold back water to gain maintenance access to submerged structures such as bridge supports and sea defences.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2023

In a study, published Wednesday in Nature, decades worth of research showed 56 percent of the world’s oceans experienced color change between 2002 to 2022. The culprit? Climate change.

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Charged

APRIL 16, 2021

Solaris is already well-known in Romania—since 2002, the bus-maker has supplied Romanian carriers with over 300 vehicles, including over 100 zero-emission trolleybuses and over 40 Urbino 12 electric buses.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 23, 2020

According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), from 2002 to 2015 the region saw a fourfold decline from 1.11 ImpactAlpha, Jan. 23 – The Asia-Pacific region has seen enormous economic growth in the last few decades, which has lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty. billion people in extreme poverty to 264 million.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Since the previous edition of Oil in the Sea was published in 2002, the organization says land-based sources of ocean oil pollution have swelled up to 20 times larger — driven in part by population growth and increased motor vehicle use.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

While attending the 7th Annual Michigan Energy Innovators Gala, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 4465 and 4069 and Senate Bill 47 that will reinstate the property tax exemption for renewable energy systems that was previously in effect from 2002 until 2012.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In 6m-deep zero-visibility wastewater, three divers (and a dive manager) ensured that there was no interruption to the crucial aeration process in the oxidation ditches, which since 2002 has been served by three very low rpm Landia mixers.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He’s been working in the industry since 2002, and a previous company of his, Solar Power Partners, was acquired by NRG Energy—a founding partner of Greentown Houston—in 2011. These stations’ primary offering, potable water, is created on-site through atmospheric water generation. Alexander von Welczeck is a serial climatetech entrepreneur.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The venture philanthropy organization has invested $110 million in 175 social enterprises since 2002. “We ImpactAlpha, October 29 – California-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation has launched an $80 million fund to make flexible equity and debt investments and unrestricted grants to 105 social enterprises.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The first trees were planted in 2002, with nearly 100,000 planted in total over the following years. The 16 species included several endangered species and the worlds’ tallest species of tropical tree ( Shorea faguetiana ) which can reach over 100 m in height.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Maren Costa began at Amazon in 2002 as a designer and was one of the founding members of , Amazon Employees for Climate Justice , which pioneered a shareholder resolution signed by more than 8,700 employees. Maren Costa joined Amazon in 2002 as a designer for the retail website.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2021

This was earlier than then planned but in line with the previous government’s schedule, as agreed to in 2002. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the German government closed down eight reactors and announced all the nation’s nuclear power would close by 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

3] BSBI published two previous plant distribution atlases, the first in 1962, based on data collected from 1950 to 1960, and the second in 2002, based on data collected from 1987 to 1999.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Multiple investigations were conducted at the Sembawang hot spring between 1963 and the early 2000s, including activities such as shallow well drilling, pumping, and water chemical analysis (Zhao, Chen, and Cai, 2002). Cited works Oliver, G.J.H. Available at: [link] Zhao, J., and Cai, J.G.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5 million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022, while two-thirds of the directors in charge of the party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have a financial interest in oil, gas, and highly polluting industries.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Freshorize was founded in 2002 by self-made-entrepreneur Aziz Patel. No stranger to long haul flights, Aziz recalls one flight in particular where he experienced unpleasant odors from the on-board lavatories. This incident was the catalyst for Aziz to find a solution to this all too common problem.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 27, 2020

Oil prices fell nearly 20% during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, but the impact was relatively short-lived as the outbreak was brought under control. Oil prices have already been under pressure as a result of oversupply and slowing economic growth in China. However, travel restrictions will further reduce demand.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Looking at more than 1,000 drought and flood events around the globe from 2002 to 2021, researchers analyzed their size, duration, and severity. Previous research tended to focus on averages, which are easier to measure than extremes, Rodell said.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

The new update also confirmed that the company is on track to halve its emissions by 2030 having cut its emissions by 70 per cent since 2002. The three pillars of Biffa's sustainability strategy are: Building a circular economy, Tackling climate change, and Caring for our people, supporting our communities.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 Frank Mitloehner , the centre’s director, has previously pushed the widely-contested idea that meat and dairy can be “climate neutral” and defended the industry in multiple public forums.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The Montreal Economic Institute was featured in a 2002 report deeming it one “of the most effective young think tanks in the Atlas network.” Yet this week, that Montreal Economic Institute report was quickly repurposed into the media release warning of billions of dollars a year in economic losses from the emissions cap.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

He was chair or co-chair of the IPCC’s scientific assessment working group until 2002 and lead editor of the first 3 IPCC reports. In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming. In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Maren Costa began at Amazon in 2002 as a designer and was one of the founding members of , Amazon Employees for Climate Justice , which pioneered a shareholder resolution signed by more than 8,700 employees. Maren Costa joined Amazon in 2002 as a designer for the retail website.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

By 2032, if the corresponding investment plans are approved by Ofgem, emissions will drop again by more than half, the equivalent to taking an additional 347,310 cars off the road since 2020, according to the ENA. "We We need to decarbonise the gas that we use.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

The California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership was established in late 2002 by Norma Glover, South Coast’s chairperson at the time. South Coast appears to be deeply entangled with a trade group that promotes natural gas vehicles in preference to EVs.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 2, 2021

Corporate Knights first published this list in 2002. Hydro-Québec is also working with Stantec (No. 6) to measure and mitigate climate-related risks to its operations and facilities,” Corporate Knights said.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Several other severe episodes of droughts were recorded in 1967–69, 1971, 1973–75, 1994, 1998–2002, and most recent 2009–15.

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Charged

APRIL 29, 2021

years in 2002. As every long-time auto owner knows, gas-powered cars and trucks have become quite reliable, and this means that fleet turnover is slow. According to economic forecasting firm IHS Markit, the average light-duty vehicle operating in the US today is 12 years old, up from an average age of 9.6

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Looking at more than 1,000 drought and flood events around the globe from 2002 to 2021, researchers analyzed their size, duration, and severity. Previous research tended to focus on averages, which are easier to measure than extremes, Rodell said.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

When the IPCC was set up in 1988, Houghton was elected to chair it, a position he remained in until 2002. Thatcher also arranged for Houghton to deliver the first ever briefing to the UK Cabinet on climate change.

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Green Roof Technology

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2002 Dipl.-Ing Rooftop farming for educational and recreational purposes seems a fancy trend in North America. Ing Markus Wittling was planning to elevate an entire vineyard on top of the Wine Museum in Cologne, Germany. The sloped green roof spans over the entire museum building of almost 20,000 square feet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The $100m pledge roughly doubles the amount Musk, who unseated Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to as the richest person in the world in January, has publicly given away through the charitable foundation he set up in 2002, the Musk Foundation.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

The previous study encompassing press coverage of climate science from 1988 to 2002 found that only 35 percent of it accurately reflected the scientific discourse. Some 64 percent of Americans now say that reducing the effects of climate change is “a top priority,” according to Pew Research polling. At the time, the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the US, Pinchot University , founded in 2002 as the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, was the first school to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business. In August 2016, Pinchot University was acquired by Presidio Graduate School (PGS).

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