Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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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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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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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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GreenBiz

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. Company profile.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs. All nations are requested to show their commitment by promulgating law and policy that promote investments in preserving the climate.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

New opportunities for the labor economy emerged in renewable energy With manufacturing and transportation processes becoming more and more automated — in some cases meaning they’re cleaner and less wasteful — people are finding they have to shift their skill sets for employment. This might sound overwhelming.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

in some cases meaning they’re cleaner and less wasteful?—?people However, building infrastructure and decarbonizing our energy system has been the largest job growth area since the 2008 financial crisis. people are finding they have to shift their skill sets for employment. This might sound overwhelming.

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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 [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. We are very concerned at the potential consequences of such a strategy for people in this country, and across the world, given the climate emergency.

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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. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

They require little water and attention to grow and can survive perfectly fine on waste. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Imagine tomatoes that can survive in the barren wastes of the Sahara. What is the potential of GMO?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Charlie Baker, Massachusetts' Republican governor, recently committed the state to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a legally binding limit backed by the state's 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector. gigawatts of offshore wind contracts it has signed over the past two years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We must move away from a 'take, make, waste' mentality to drastically reduce the amount of material we consume, argues Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent. This staggering rate of increase shines a light on the shocking inadequacy of UK government's recent commitment to prevent all avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. He died in 2008. Both should be evaluated by the same yardstick,” the report found.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But in 2008, an energy boom took hold in Texas and upended Doty’s team. Perry “would kind of stay in our business a lot, I’ll put it that way,” said Shankle, who left the agency for a job at a radioactive-waste company. “He

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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. Rome vs the moneychangers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sleipner and Snøhvit Projects Operator: Equinor (Statoil), 1996-present; Snøhvit since 2008 Location: Offshore (North Sea Sleipner West field), Norway Stated maximum capacity: Sleipner 1 million tonnes of CO2/year Stated maximum capacity: Snøhvit 0.7 government’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, receiving $407 million in federal subsidies.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

Waste wood left on the property is being salvaged, and the workers’ cabin will be constructed from a single cottonwood tree felled nearby. Made from piles of waste wood left behind by logging, biochar seed casings will assist new seeds in their transition from drone drop to germination. Amanda Follett Hosgood photo for The Tyee.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

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. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. Perhaps no one asked whether the NAS actually was capable of this testing before writing it into law.

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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. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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