Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons. Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. Several organisations are trying. And not every state has the same energy mix.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

This idea that we are going to burn more fossil fuels to solve climate change is ridiculous,” Tracey Saxby, a marine scientist with My Sea to Sky, a B.C.-based based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By s climate goals. “We A recent analysis by environmental organization Stand.earth found that the B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Over 150 organizations just called for a moratorium on CO2 pipeline constructio n in the meantime. It looks like an actual “plan” to overhaul our energy infrastructure and help decarbonize our economy, which is the goal.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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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. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Globalisation was effective during the transition that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, but since the global financial crisis began in 2007 the world economy has been hanging on the cliff, struggling to get up. Financial crisis, indeed, the outcome of Washington Consensus and finally inequality, too.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. That’s partly the result of more Americans feeling the effects of climate change in their daily lives.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

by Richard Schmalensee, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Davide Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School. With the election of President Joe Biden and rising public concern about climate change, Washington seems increasingly likely to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Disclosure Statement.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. In early 2021, API produced a draft one-pager on CCS as part of an internal review of the lobby group’s position and initiatives on climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in 2007, the Supreme Court basically said that greenhouse gases are pollutants, and if they endanger public health and the environment, [the EPA can] regulate them.

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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. Like EEI, fast-forwarding to the present-day, NAM has served as a key node of climate denialism.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth and the only way forward is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground,” Dallas Goldtooth, a Keep It In The Ground organizer for Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), said in a statement. “I spend a lot of my life fighting stupid projects.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And, as of next month, the governor of Massachusetts will be Maura Healey, who made her name, in part, as the state’s attorney general, by suing the fossil-fuel industry for having misled the public about climate change. In 2020, Massachusetts voted for Biden by better than two to one; Boston did by nearly five to one.

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