Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Already beset by plastic waste problems , Point Nemo’s once pristine environment is increasingly becoming a junkyard. What is conventionally referred to as “space law”, as established in 1967 with the Outer Space Treaty , dictates that splashdowns are perfectly legal and in fact necessary for the preservation of the resource of space.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

in some cases meaning they’re cleaner and less wasteful?—?people People switched because in 2007 George W. If you want to make a change in infrastructure to promote renewable energy resources, you can really only do it by pushing a bill or a law. people are finding they have to shift their skill sets for employment.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. For example, despite nearly every survey showing that a sizable majority of consumers want to reduce their own plastic waste, the pandemic has necessarily increased the use of single-serve and disposable products and packaging.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms. While subsidies do make sense in specific instances, and they are easier to pass into law, caution should be exercised in their application. The change is required by law. have a catalytic converter.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

For decades, oil and gas companies disposed of millions of barrels of waste down that hole, ringed with cement and steel, dubbing the wastewater well Freshwater City SWD 01, according to state records. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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. For example, US law prohibits interstate commerce of cannabis and derivative products, meaning that whatever is sold in a given state must be grown and produced there.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. This “trunk line” pipeline would gather all the New England’s CO2 waste and pick up more from cement plants and other facilities along the way via smaller spur lines. Someone at Exxon had done the math 20 years ago.

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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. For example, despite nearly every survey showing that a sizable majority of consumers want to reduce their own plastic waste, the pandemic has necessarily increased the use of single-serve and disposable products and packaging.

Earth Day 36

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We present recycling and waste service options for giant scale through to boutique purchasers in business, industrial, building and residential markets. The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation.

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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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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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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Choose energy efficient LED lightbulbs – and slash energy waste With sparkling holiday lights still spreading warmth and cheer in our homes and communities, it’s perhaps an appropriate time to raise the issue of lighting energy waste. Halogen lights also run extremely hot and produce 80% waste heat. Light bulbs are small.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Enforcing laws and regulations is the more direct route. Shut off this firehose of waste, and we’d be improving habitats, health, and the makeup of the atmosphere. Meetings, momentum, and money alone probably won’t cut it. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Also, if a state’s money was a useful commodity (precious metal) – the state would be on a constant quest for precious metal – a waste of energy and resources. Later, the law was changed to allow them to be transferable, and so they circulated through the economy as money, at least for bigger purchases. Pre-700 BCE. 700 BCE – c.

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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. But even in the USA’s current dark environmental climate, positive changes are being made on the state and local level.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Eight states in the region (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey) have laws requiring emissions reductions of at least 80 percent by 2050,” the report says, a goal these states aim to achieve by restricting the use of fossil fuels and encouraging the growth of green technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Over many years she has fought to protect both the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, where she lives, and other Native American communities from a slew of dirty projects, including coal mines, coal-fired power plants, incinerators and nuclear waste facilities. “We don’t have another place to go.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The administration also launched an audit of taxpayers who claimed the credit , and claimed to find some $74 million worth of undeserved credits (we’re not aware of any analogous effort to ferret out fraud and waste related to tax breaks for oil and gas production).

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