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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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Make Transportation Investments Equitable (HB 2688/SB 6399). This bill failed to pass out of the policy committee.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

we should think 'does this need to be packaged at all?'. In 2008 Rwanda instituted a national ban on non-biodegradable plastic bags and in October 2019, it became the first country in Africa to issue a complete ban on all single-use plastics. Rather than thinking 'can I recycle this?'

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

UN Secretary General António Guterres has already declared that the world has "a responsibility to recover better" than it did after the financial crisis in 2008, arguing the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change should provide the framework for the stimulus packages that are already taking shape. "We

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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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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

And this occurrence has been substantiated and evidenced by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre Scientific Visualization Studio using the GRACE satellite from 2002 to 2008, wherein it came to light that the groundwater in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan had plummeted by more than 88-million-acre feet. kms of area holding approx 26.12-million-acre

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The move will be seen as something of a blow to hopes that governments would prioritise green stimulus measures in their coronavirus recovery packages. Scrappage schemes were widely used to help support the auto industry following the 2008 financial crash, providing grants to motorists who traded in older vehicles for new models.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. For context, I worked with Bank of America in 2008 on the first commitment of this kind — it was for $25 billion. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019. But what’s happened since is unclear.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. percent of benefits from the Republican tax provision in the coronavirus relief package go to the nation's millionaires and billionaires and cost taxpayers an estimated $90 billion this year alone. This means that rich people now pay less tax than poorer Americans.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Boris Johnson has enjoyed further electoral success with an economic strategy predicated on 'levelling up' and the net zero transition, but huge questions remain about his ability to deliver on those promises in light of the paucity of the government's green recovery package to date.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

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. The bankers’ trick of lending non-existent money had to be enshrined in law, because it came to represent the foundation of European economies. 15th – 19th centuries: early capitalism.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. Overall, the Act sets out $60bn for environmental justice priorities.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. The toymaker seeks to cut normalized carbon emissions in half by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The best spots to look for gas, said a report on the Marcellus published in 2008 by the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, is not necessarily where the shale is thickest, but where levels returned by the Geiger counter are highest. “To “Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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