Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

by Richard Schmalensee, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Davide Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School. There are a few ways to set a price on carbon. The most straightforward is a carbon tax. In addition, the revenue from the carbon tax could be rebated to consumers in a variety of ways.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 31, 2019

The strategy involves sustainable fish production, collaboration between ocean-based industries and the reduction of carbon emissions. In 2007, he served as the international patron of the UN’s ‘Year of the Dolphin’ programme, and is also the head of his own foundation aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and managing water resources.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

According to the IPCC, scientists have gotten much better at this over the past decade, and can now more rigorously pin extreme heat, heavy precipitation, dry spells, and hurricanes on big carbon emitters. Left: A young boy in Kivalina, Alaska, watches workers fill sandbags for a sea wall in 2007.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Backtracking on bulb standards agreed in 2007 In a Grinch-like move just before the holidays, the Trump Administration announced that it will block the energy-saving lightbulb standards signed into law by President George Bush in 2007 from entering into effect as planned on January 1, 2020. Overall, you save 83% with the LED.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”.

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Green Technology

JUNE 7, 2018

To promote uniformity, the law generally bars states from regulating car emissions. But when the Clean Air Act was passed, California was already developing innovative laws and standards to address its unique air pollution problems. The Clean Air Act empowers the EPA to regulate air pollution from motor vehicles.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Perhaps it's because ‘climate change' has, over the years, been seen through the narrow and imperfect proxy of ‘carbon' and has been distilled down into a suite of quantitative measurements; ‘parts per million', ‘percentage reductions', ‘degrees Celsius', ‘kilowatt hours', and so on.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

The effect wouldn't only be allowing some fossil plants that might otherwise close or never be built to continue emitting carbon for years to come. Most expert observers agree that would effectively bar such clean energy resources from successfully bidding into PJM's capacity market, to the benefit of gas- and coal-fired plants.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

In 2007 those mandates were expanded. A hydrogen economy failed to materialize at that time, but hydrogen is currently experiencing a renaissance as an attractive low-carbon transportation fuel. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. dependence on foreign oil.

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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. To help counteract that reality, the state adopted a mandate for both renewable energy and energy efficiency in 2007. People don’t normally see us standing together.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. A reality check is in order. President Gerald R.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Alaska has also become a hub for kelp farming, which the report says can help suck up carbon, reduce acidification, and create jobs. The Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers are “critical lifelines” (and a low-carbon option ) for transporting goods across the country, the report says. Some go even further.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. Policy matters.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama.

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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. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. Congress from ratifying the Kyoto protocol to the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The institute, founded by the Legatum Group in 2007, received $77,000 in 2018 from the Charles Koch Foundation, linked to the CEO of the US-based Koch Industries fossil fuel dynasty. Abbott has previously said that “climate change is probably doing good” and is a long-standing advocate for coal power, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel.

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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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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 Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

and Canadian emissions, which, if opponents have their way, would bring the total carbon pollution avoided due to Indigenous resistance to 1.6 That principle lies at the heart of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a global resolution adopted by 144 nations in 2007.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A significant factor explaining New York’s low carbon footprint is the city’s widespread use of public transport (an impressive 31% of residents commute using public services). This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. 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

For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. 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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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

While the ramifications of such data may be difficult to grasp by the layperson, what’s important to note here is that carbon emissions from human activities have been accelerating at an alarming rate. The severity of those impacts is tied directly to the amount of carbon dioxide we release.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 On the afternoon of April 19, 2007, however, K-Solv grabbed just about everybody’s attention. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If we don’t get implementation right, then it’s catastrophic for carbon, and it also teaches politicians it’s not a winning issue,” Stokes told me. He told me, “We looked to install a whole-house heat pump, which was partly about saving carbon, and partly about me not wanting to lug the window A.C. units up every summer.”

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. Kiichiro Sato / AP Photo.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

” December 10 2007. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). 2019, Ambient black carbon particles reach the fetal side of human placenta, Nature Communications, 3866, [link]. Febuary 5, 2019 [link]. [iv]. Chan, Margaret. The World Health Organization. v] Letourneau S, Liang K and Hackett F, The Province.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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