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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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Luminalt’s Jeanine Cotter: How Solar Loses Without a Diverse Workforce

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

In 2008, Cotter helped lead Luminalt to become the city’s first workforce-development certified solar company, which commits the business to hiring in part from communities that have high levels of unemployment. Before starting Luminalt, she practiced law at Fenwick and West and was an attorney for financial software maker Intuit.

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US Trade Court Sides with Longi, Jinko, REC in Solar Patent Infringement Case

GreenTechMedia

In a complaint filed in March, Hanwha Q Cells alleged that all three companies were infringing on a patent filed in 2008 by importing cells and modules that used proprietary technology. ITC commissioners for a review of the decision, which was made by an administrative law judge assigned to the case.

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Much too little, far too late: The UK must phase out single-use plastics before 2042

Business Green

Once in the ocean, plastic waste carrying harmful diseases can also infect coral, killing one of the most diverse habitats on Earth, home to a vast array of marine life. Under these laws, anyone who manufactures, imports or sells plastic bags and single-use plastic items will have the items confiscated and risks being fined up to $11,000.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

DeSmogBlog

Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Under federal law, agencies are required to conduct tribal consultation on projects and plans like this one. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.”

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development. One of those names is John Droz.

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From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution

Mosaic

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.