DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

As the nuclear forensics scientist Marco Kaltofen has told me: “With fossil fuels, essentially what you are doing is taking an underground radioactive reservoir and bringing it up to the surface where it can interact with people and the environment.” law, it is still considered nonhazardous. And yet, by U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

To elaborate, in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals , he articulates Categorical Imperative as “ So act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature ” (Gregor and Korsgaard,31). The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 4, 2008, pp.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Skidmore, who famously signed the UK's net zero target into law while serving as interim Energy and Clean Growth Minister in 2019, is far from finished with the Review. Fossil fuel dilemmas. That's why I've met with all political parties: because I want that consensus; I want this to last. Securing Rishi Sunak's support.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. forests between 2006 and 2010, five times more impactful than fires, land-use change, insects, drought, and wind damage combined.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While a small minority in Congress is calling for green alternatives to carbon-producing energy products like coal and oil, the reusable energy market is still in its infant stages and nowhere near replacing fossil fuels. Between severe heat and new laws favoring EVs that must be charged daily, it’s no wonder the grid is overburdened.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Wood Mackenzie estimates that at least $50 trillion in investment will be needed to reduce fossil-fuel and other greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris climate accord. Since 2006, Michael has led Clairvest’s investments in seven waste management platform companies.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Scientists have known this in a roundabout way for a long time: After all, the coal and oil deposits that have fueled civilization since the Industrial Revolution come from ancient marsh and marine ecosystems that, after accumulating huge quantities of carbon, were buried and fossilized over millions of years.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. Jan Dutkiewicz, Policy Fellow, Harvard Law School. Danish Crown did not respond to the allegation when approached by DeSmog.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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. Governance: Here the internal systems and practices that a company adopts to govern itself are examined.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 No other volumes were reported after Black Elk took over.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. November 2006. xii] [xiii]. May 1, 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The birth of the B Corp movement and its evolution over the years B Lab was founded in the United States in 2006 by three friends – Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Cassoy – who shared a vision – to use business as a force for good. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), degrees C (2.7 degrees F).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She says if world leaders are serious about combating the climate crisis they can "help us stop the fossil fuel industry and protect indigenous people in the Amazon, because those are the people who have been protecting the world’s rainforest for a very long time now." Howey Ou is from Guilin, China. Disaster will come from inaction.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari this week signed the country's first Climate Change Act into law , just days after the government announced a new target to deliver net zero emissions by 2060.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. The NELA campaign’s legacy, however, goes far beyond its sector alone, according to Oreskes and Conway.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

This is Swanson’s law in a nutshell. to 4 cents/kilowatt-hour in reasonably sunny areas, which is cheaper than most traditional sources of power by a significant amount, even at today’s relatively low fossil fuel prices, and even with storage added in order to make solar partially dispatchable. percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2006, then-FRA administrator Joseph Boardman explained why ECP brakes were superior. Modern Braking Systems: Deny the Science Even After Supporting It We now know that the oil industry was well aware of the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate and then actively worked to sow doubt surrounding the validity of that science.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

fossil fuel industry was seen by some as a poor choice to lead an agency tasked with maintaining the U.S. energy policy on behalf of the fossil fuel industry was a failure, however. from 2004 to 2006, and was a long-time aide and chief of staff for former U.S. He was a vice president at Ford Motor Co.

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