Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S. So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., And 46 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

in part to demand that the federal government uphold treaty obligations to the Lakota people. In one 2005 case, Patterson himself was the defendant , charged by the state of New York for ice fishing without properly labeling his gear. It’s one of the worst decisions from foundational Indian law court,” Mills said.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 9, 2023

Although previously conducted under a requirement of the Federal Power Act , this iteration is the first time the triennial transmission study considers future—in addition to historical—constraints, thanks to new language added by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Transmission needs will shift over time.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Below you’ll learn what subsidies and incentives are available to help your business transition to clean energy and cut fossil-fuel energy demand and the costs associated. net greenhouse gas emissions down to 40% below 2005 levels.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. G criteria includes whether a company makes effective decisions, complies with the law, meets the needs of external stakeholders, uses accurate and transparent accounting methods, and stakeholders are allowed to vote on important issues.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. degree limit as the main demand. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The new climate bill - which passed with support from Green and crossbench senators - introduces a new near term target to cut emissions by at least 43 per cent by 2030 against 2005 levels, in addition to a long term goal to deliver net zero emissions by 2050.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These actions, required by law since 2005, never have been implemented. AbilityOne increased its product lines to include more environmentally friendly, biobased products to meet federal demand. Through its network of 500 nonprofit agencies, the program provides the federal government products and services.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 26, 2023

With higher interest rates making consumers less willing to finance solar systems, these policies have led to reduced demand in certain markets. To meet the growing demand, firms are now investing billions of dollars into new factories and facilities to expand solar manufacturing capacity for solar panels, solar trackers and battery cells.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Instead, the TCEQ has allowed K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in Channelview’s Jacintoport neighborhood, to expand its operations four times since the problem was discovered in 2005. That’s seven times higher than Texas said was safe back in 2005, when Channelview’s benzene problem was discovered.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. First, will you agree with the demand of the Prime Minister of Quebec, Mr. Legault, that Quebec overview and environmental issues will have precedence over Canada’s overview?

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imagine that I convinced the federal government to pass a law that requires my next door neighbor to buy a product from me. — is no justification for demanding he share it with me. To recap, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was passed into law with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (and subsequently expanded in 2007).

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The RFS was first passed into law with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and it was subsequently expanded in 2007 (both under President Bush). Ethanol production has actually fallen sharply this year as a result of the fuel demand slump caused by Covid-19). The ethanol industry was kicked into high gear in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

The case brought by West Virginia demanded the EPA should not have the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan in 2015 – in essence limiting emissions across whole states.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These actions, required by law since 2005, never have been implemented. AbilityOne increased its product lines to include more environmentally friendly, biobased products to meet federal demand. Through its network of 500 nonprofit agencies, the program provides the federal government products and services.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina utility law requires energy planning and ratemaking that results in the “least-cost mix of generation and demand-reduction measures” achievable. The limited gas scenario isn’t just cleaner, cutting 2005 carbon emissions by 74% in the next decade rather than about 60%. A decade of tumbling prices.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the demands on Exxon to reduce its emissions got louder, and the company began to think about a long-term solution for its excess CO?. Trump signed it into law. The carnage of Covid, which has wrecked demand for oil, saw Exxon removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Maybe try something else besides CCS?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. And the biochar industry still faces hurdles in scaling up production and demand. decreased by 12 percent. Some go even further.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. million people find jobs since 2005.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Average fuel economy rose again, by 29 percent between 2005 and 2020, the Energy Department added. But efficiency advocates noted those numbers actually fell short of federal targets, faulting loopholes in the law that they say promote larger vehicles. mile-per-gallon gain to 25.4 MPG, “a record high.”

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Plus Germany energy efficiency funding, global coal demand rises, and the rest of the top green business news from around the world this week. IEA: Coal demand to return to all-time high in 2022. Biden: Senate deal ‘most significant' climate legislation in US history. warming pathway.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The book documents how today’s prevailing anti-regulatory and anti-government postures that deride Big Government and cheer for Big Business did not arise simply from grassroots demands. The 2005 version came to a vote and failed 60–38, with only a handful of Republicans voting yea. 7 To act in the 1990s would have been appropriate.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

on a path to cut emissions 40% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). It started when the state of Florida passed a disturbing bill known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law , which restricts the teaching of gender and sexual orientation in elementary schools. It puts the U.S. energy production.”.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 28, 2021

pledged to cut emissions by about 28% from 2005 levels by 2025. Experts predict the Biden Administration will set a target for a 40–50% reduction in emissions below 2005 levels by 2030. Manchin also opposes eliminating the filibuster to pass laws without Republican support. Under President Obama, the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Under the new law, all banks, insurance companies and asset managers with assets of more than NZ$1bn (£500m) will be required to disclose their climate risk in line with the standard from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). New Zealand makes climate reporting compulsory in world first.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The US Senate yesterday broke decades of Congressional deadlock to pass sweeping climate legislation, which promises to turbocharge the deployment of clean technologies and low carbon infrastructure across the US and deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the country's greenhouse gas emissions against 2005 levels by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The law was designed “to reduce the impact of severe energy supply interruptions” such as that caused by the embargo. Consider that in 2005, the U.S. In December 1975, with memories of gas lines fresh on the minds of Americans as a result of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, Congress established the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

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