GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So we can build these policies that will become a postcard from the future for the rest of the country,” said David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission, speaking last week at a UCLA summit on state and local progress toward 100 percent clean energy. 100% targets come in different forms. Washington D.C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets. Anything less is a breach of its legal duties and amounts to greenwashing and climate delay.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction. As the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why Danone has signed the green recovery appeal at the European level, because we believe the transformation and the renegotiation of the agriculture policy is instrumental to that.".

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

ClientEarth Senior Lawyer Sam Hunter Jones said: “It’s not enough for the UK Government simply to have a net zero strategy, it needs to include real-world policies that ensure it succeeds. A rapid and fair transition to a safer future requires a plan that shows how much greenhouse gas reduction the chosen policies will achieve, and by when.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The authors stated in the original study that: Our results indicate that, thus far, California’s cap-and-trade program has not yielded improvements in environmental equity with respect to health-damaging co-pollutant emissions. This could change, however, as the cap on GHG emissions is gradually lowered in the future. .

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The authors stated in the original study that: Our results indicate that, thus far, California’s cap-and-trade program has not yielded improvements in environmental equity with respect to health-damaging co-pollutant emissions. This could change, however, as the cap on GHG emissions is gradually lowered in the future. .

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. Two years ago, Merksamer introduced Newsom for a discussion on energy, wildfires, and climate hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California, of which Merksamer is currently chair of the board. In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals. Now we know that this token policy is not ambitious enough.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. He died in 2008.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

But the best policy work is continuous, creative, and keeps reaching for greater ambition and impact. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies. Milan has historically had some of the worst air pollution in Europe and studies have suggested that poor air quality may exacerbate the health impacts from covid-19. "We

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

The EO establishes the following policies as part of a whole-of-government strategy. To promote this policy, the EO also requires that federal agencies develop carbon pollution-free electricity generation and energy storage capacity on their real property assets.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Some of these scientists were actively engaged in research to discredit the idea that cigarette smoking was a health risk, but most of it was more subtle; the industry supported research on causes of cancer and heart disease other than tobacco, such as radon, asbestos, and diet. A Spider’s Web of Pipelines.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). But Nepal is still poorest owing to proper utilisation policy. America had a Gini coefficient of.47 47 in 2012.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law. It’s really hard to disentangle whether changes can be attributed to a program or not,” said Cushing, an environmental health professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. In 2008, Earth Day galvanized millions of people across the globe in the Call For Climate campaign. George Bush came into the U.S. We’re excited just to push the reset button.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. In 2008, Earth Day galvanized millions of people across the globe in the Call For Climate campaign. George Bush came into the U.S. We’re excited just to push the reset button.

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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. The price is designed to reflect all the harm done by greenhouse gas emissions, such as the impact of heat waves on public health. Regulations versus taxation. There are a few ways to set a price on carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The video and anecdote raised a smile at a time when the world is facing its biggest collective health and economic crisis since at least the end of the Second World War. We have a framework for action - the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” BLM spokesperson Jillian Aragon declined interview requests for this article, saying that the agency isn’t commenting on pending policies while management in Washington, D.C., is still in transition.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. Dave Anderson, a policy analyst at the pro-renewables Energy and Policy Institute , has watched figures like Droz reappear perennially.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2020

Asked to clarify his claim that a Joe Biden presidency would usher in an invasion of the suburbs by dark-skinned people, Trump noted that roughly a third of suburban residents are already “minorities” who want to “destroy suburbia” by changing zoning laws to build low-income housing. Obama’s use of “minorities” was noteworthy for its irony.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency and he fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. To add insult to injury, Trump is using the pandemic to help polluters.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

Trump is trying to cast himself as the law and order president yet he is not cut out for the part. His campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, and personal lawyer are all convicted felons. Trump has made a mockery of the law freeing and protecting his friends.

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