GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. 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. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. . ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

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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 A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. came in 2007.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Resilience 52

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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.

Pollution 98

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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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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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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. 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. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

Earth Day 36

Earth Day Climate change Politics Policy 36

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s A recent analysis by environmental organization Stand.earth found that the B.C. And that is from just one project. s climate goals. “We

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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. Someone at Exxon had done the math 20 years ago.

Pollution 84

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation. Mr Green has been a rising pressure within the playing sector since 2007. Health and security is part of our DNA, and we’re absolutely compliant with all practices and laws.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

But before bulldozers started digging into corn and soybean fields to widen the ditch, dozens of people and organizations had to get on board with the plan. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Enforcing laws and regulations is the more direct route. Nathanael Johnson / Grist.

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Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 140

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

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

China currently emits more CO 2 than any other country, but by most estimates the United States has been the largest contributor when measured historically between 1850 and 2007. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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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. What is at stake is whether the choice of how to cut carbon will be made by the businesses and people who emit it or by regulators, legislators, and lawyers and lobbyists working for business and advocacy organizations.

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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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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. Both of these policy supports have now become law with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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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. What is now colloquially called EEI, was launched in 1885 as the National Electric Light Association, or NELA.

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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 even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. But the law also gives “big amounts of discretion” to the state’s Utilities Commission, and their plan remains unclear.

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