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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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

policy interventions and subsidies are poised to address upfront vehicle costs. One great example of a subsidy targeted at the community level is Clean School Bus Rebates (CSB), an Environmental Protection Agency program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The good news is that in the U.S., Klein et al.’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. Since 2005, the group has also advocated for renewables, Maisano said. Shell was ahead of its time.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. Policies that employ carbon offsets are in use around the world.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

This media brief summarizes some of the most relevant studies on what a clean power grid means for provinces, electricity costs, jobs, and public opinion, while providing a run down of similar policies in place elsewhere in the world.

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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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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. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"They’re really trying to appease a nascent but quite powerful movement of [environmental, social and governance focused] shareholders and institutional investors," said David Pomerantz, executive director of utility watchdog group Energy and Policy Institute, which tracks carbon targets. Once it started taking off.it It generated 73.6

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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. Under the policies of the Action Plan, the government will provide $1.55 billion in financial and technical assistance, $700 million of which will be earmarked for pollution reduction activities at marginal convention wells.

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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. E looks to reduce a company’s energy use , waste , and pollution while helping to protect natural resources through conservation. Social performance: Selected criteria are used to analyze a company’s business and personal relationships.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Analysis firm Rhodium Group estimates that it will reduce CO2 emissions by 31–44% below 2005 levels in 2030, as compared to 24–35% under current policy. State and local ambition on policy and private sector action will remain crucial to reach our goals. Treating forests as climate solutions that scrub carbon from the air.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Our history of redlining has left low-income and minority communities dangerously exposed to extreme heat.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Actually, we are the only party that will have a foreign policies that is based on our security and prosperity for our country. 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. We need a World Trade and Climate Organization.

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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

Carbon-wise, it’s proven to be a big success: By 2017, RGGI had already surpassed its 2020 goal of reducing emissions 45 percent below 2005 levels. While RGGI is designed to reduce CO2 emissions, it inevitably leads to reductions in other pollutants from power plants, like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. . on Jul 29, 2020.

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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. Initial studies, such as Rewiring America’s Pace of Progress report, have demonstrated the significant uptick in investment that could flow to American communities as a result of an uncapped policy.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Zack Angelini, 29. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A landmark clean energy law enacted this year in Virginia will only equate to a 26 percent reduction in emissions economy-wide by 2050, according to a new analysis, leaving the state far from the cuts required to stave off the worst effects of climate change. was beginning to recognize the severity of the COVID-19 crisis.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Our history of redlining has left low-income and minority communities dangerously exposed to extreme heat.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Our history of redlining has left low-income and minority communities dangerously exposed to extreme heat.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

The Biden administration pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade under that agreement. “A Trump replaced the Obama administration’s proposed power plant pollution rules with his own weaker measures, which a federal court blocked before they could be implemented.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. Tipping points are expected to occur in the 2030s when the 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The project would also help Exxon clean up its image as one of the foremost corporate climate polluters. Even today the overwhelming majority of capture and storage projects are associated with EOR,” says Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Trump signed it into law.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table. "An

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Among other things, the 265-page bill calls for a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from electricity by 2030, compared to a 2005 baseline. Areas where coal plants have shut down “have borne the brunt of both producing our electricity and suffering the impacts of pollution,” Howse said. Accountability and reform.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

It is estimated provisions in the legislation could help the US to cut its emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, from 2005 levels, although this would still be below the level of decarbonisation required to put America on a 1.5C It emphasises the underpinning of legal obligations to act, rather than simply of discretionary policy," she said. "It

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elections matter (a lot), and so does policy. The biggest policy win on climate was the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. on a path to cut emissions 40% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). The pressure on business to align its lobbying and policies with its big sustainability goals and its values is growing.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, government programs are always complex, and they tend to undergo major revisions between the proposal and policy stages. To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A carbon neutrality pledge from the world's largest polluter would be a major milestone for the climate movement and would send a signal to other nation states to boost the ambition of their own climate targets. New Zealand makes climate reporting compulsory in world first.

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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. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

In a 6-3 ruling, the constitutional court's conservative majority sided with fossil fuel firms and the Republican-leaning state of West Virginia in a case seen as one of the most consequential for US climate policy in decades. The Court appoints itself - instead of Congress or the expert agency - the decision-maker on climate policy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

After decades of inaction on substantive climate change legislation in Washington DC thanks to a Grand Canyon-sized gulf between the Democrats and Republicans on green policy, the Senate yesterday passed a bill that would amount to by far the largest ever federal investment in decarbonising the world's biggest economy.

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