ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

Bryant Jones, Executive Director of US-based nonprofit organization Geothermal Rising (GR), provided expert testimony during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing in 12 December 2023 on a proposed amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 29, 2023

However, the law itself is massive, with hundreds of pages of tax code sections written in ways that may not clearly outline the benefits to businesses. The IRA positions the US to cut climate pollution up to 42% by 2030 , putting our national target of 50% below 2005 levels within reach.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Indeed, there is a cautionary note in the latter, which states that “You may use alternative methods to those set out in the Code in order to comply with the law. EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits (Fourth Edition 2020). However, the Code has a special legal status.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The law has major gaps in its approach, including: Most importantly, a failure to engage communities on the frontlines in community self-determination: While the funds above may be named to benefit disadvantaged communities, without guarantees of active participation these funds will likely miss the mark. Gaping Gaps.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A new report warns that oil and gas production in the United States is expected to rise under Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), even as the legislation helps to moderately lower fossil fuel demand through billions of dollars in clean energy investments. Climate Law appeared first on DeSmog.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. As a result, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Maisano now runs a strategic communications practice for Bracewell LLP, whose separate law practice provides services for oil and gas companies including Eni ( currently being sued for climate deception in Italy) and Phillips 66 (which is a defendant in many U.S. Since 2005, the group has also advocated for renewables, Maisano said.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave us the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol had to be blended into the fuel supply. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. dependence on foreign oil. In 2007 those mandates were expanded.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I graduated from Harvard in 2005, which was around the time of Facebook and all the big internet [initial public offerings]. As a result, it doesn’t attract that disenfranchised talent that other fields like law and medicine attract. Richard Matsui : You’ve had a longstanding career in renewable finance.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

Subsidies and policies that facilitate the transition to cleaner heavy-duty vehicles are especially beneficial to EJ communities, as the link between diesel emissions and higher asthma rates for Black and Latino children in communities overburdened by pollution is well-established (AAFA 2005; Weir 2002).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

Alyssa-Marie Kau, a former law clerk with Earthjustice , says the construction of the new telescope could threaten the aquifer that sits directly underneath Mauna Kea because many hazardous chemicals, such as hydrochloric-acid, motor oil, or pesticides, are already stored underground.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

That's more money for climate action than all of the renewable-energy tax credits from 2005 to 2019. In the long term, increasing energy storage deployments will drive the cost down, per Moore's Law. labor laws and supply chain contrast increased the cost of labor, raw materials and shipping. Second, U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

The money that makes this possible came from a $35 million deal the school district brokered with a wind farm company in 2005, part of the massive growth of that sector in Nolan County and Texas. We think it is due to state school finance formulas and state- and county-level tax laws, and the incentives they provide to school administrators.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Significant investments in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have already advanced the country’s clean power ambitions, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory predicting that grid emissions could decline between 72% to 91% below 2005 levels by 2030 as a result.

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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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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

We had avian flu in 2005 and Ebola in 2014 and scientists, again including Carroll, warned that we did not develop plans to address any future outbreaks of those viruses. Most water system operators do not have the data to determine their baselines for the compliance metrics in the new laws. We were forewarned but didn’t prepare.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). THACKER: This was found by an attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law going through archives at the University of Michigan. Business as usual would lead to: 2005: 1°C rise in temperatures that would be barely noticeable. View on DocumentCloud.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

Virtually all new cars sold in the UK since 2005 meet ULEZ emissions standards. Experts in election data laws have previously criticised the Tories for using petitions and polls to harvest data from signatories without consent. Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50 million in March, to up to 1.93 million in April.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

“Our interstate storage business, which has newly added capacity, remains a growth opportunity we expect to add significantly to our bottom line in the future,” wrote former NW Natural CEO Mark Dodson in a 2005 annual letter to shareholders. asked Doug Tilgner, a manager at NW Natural, in a 2005 internal email. “I’d

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When states’ land purchases are approved, Indigenous nations don’t lose any other rights on those lands, such as hunting, fishing, or gathering, unless the treaty specifically cedes those rights, explained Monte Mills, who directs the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. Since the system’s launch in 2005, the EU has gradually placed limits on the types of projects from which credits are accepted and on the amount of offsets used for compliance in its carbon market.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Since 2005, the City has reduced municipal emissions by 37 percent through building efficiency upgrades, investing in renewable energy, and converting to hybrid, electric and alternative fuel vehicles. Mayor Turner co-chairs Climate Mayors, a bipartisan network of almost 450 U.S. mayors demonstrating leadership on climate action. “As

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But instead of a long-term carbon commitment, NextEra pledged to reduce its carbon emissions rate 67 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. NV Energy has signed massive solar-plus-battery contracts and must decarbonize completely according to a new Nevada state law. It generated 73.6 PacifiCorp has a plan to build 4.3

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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.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

Although, there is enough scientific evidence for the need of a collaborated effort, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2005) has argued that individuals do not have a moral obligation to limit their green-house gas (GHG) emissions.

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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. 2005 is used as a baseline because of the Paris Agreement targets that year ). net greenhouse gas emissions down to 40% below 2005 levels. And leading this transition in the U.S. meet net-zero goals.

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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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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

The Rhodium Group released preliminary analysis of the bill finding that the Inflation Reduction Act would cut US net greenhouse gas emissions down to 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030 compared to 24% to 35% under current policy. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

OCD justified the change by saying the state had determined not all residents on the island identified as part of the Tribe, and that limiting the project to a specific tribe could be seen as contrary to HUD’s rules and federal anti-discrimination laws.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. In 2005, the U.S. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys with Wright and Gray , a law firm based in New Orleans, have filed a lawsuit against Marathon on behalf of residents who said they had respiratory and eye issues in response to the fire, attorney Daryl Gray told DeSmog. “This is what they do. They just fudge it all.”

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Following marathon 14 hour talks, negotiators from the European Parliament, European Commission, and member states finalised a deal on the bloc's sweeping new Climate Law just after 5am this morning. The news came as reports suggested the White House is poised to sign off on a new target to halve emissions against 2005 levels by 2030.

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