GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [2] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3] Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [2] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3] Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 17, 2024

This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). Real-world comparisons of WA and OR prices at the pump support these findings.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

The annual spring price ramp that we are once again encountering has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [1] From 2004-2023 (ignoring 2020, the only year in which prices declined over the spring due to the COVID pandemic), both the average and median price increase has been 74 cents per gallon (Figure 2). [3]

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon. Attitudes have evolved, as have understandings about predators’ importance — recent research suggests their stabilizing presence may play a crucial role in mitigating some of the effects of climate change. In 2022, the 9th U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. A Barrier to Climate Action The views of former CPS staffers Staveley, Price, and Heywood, who are now advising Sunak’s government, towards fracking and climate change are unknown.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Fellow conference speakers also include Lee Anderson, Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party, who has claimed that people are “sick to death” of net zero, and former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg , who has said that taking action on climate change is “unrealistic” because “it would have no effect for hundreds or possibly a thousand years.”

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

This includes changing environmental rules, defunding government oversight, failing to enforce existing laws and dissolving the Amazon fund's committees. The populist leader has surrounded himself with climate deniers and conspiracy theorists. In 2004, a consorted global efforts succeeded in slowing deforestation in the region.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

As such, the plan options reflect those administrations’ hopes and not the very different direction set so far by President Joe Biden, who within days of taking office issued an executive order on climate change and an executive memorandum on tribal consultation and strengthening nation-to-nation relationships.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. But efficiency advocates noted those numbers actually fell short of federal targets, faulting loopholes in the law that they say promote larger vehicles. Credit: Sicnag ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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