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Will New York City’s largest buildings meet emissions reduction limits by 2024?

Renewable Energy World

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act has been lauded as one of the most ambitious and innovative legislative initiatives by a major city to combat climate change. There’s been a tremendous uptick in energy optimization and efficiency projects. Last month, the U.S.

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Corporate Giants Promote Climate Action, But Work With Oil Lobbyists in State Capitols

DeSmogBlog

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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Only sweeping UK reform holds the key to net zero buildings

Business Green

Buildings must become far more energy efficient to deliver the UK's net zero target, but progress remains frustratingly slow, argues Rob Martin of LGIM Real Assets. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recently published its annual review of government's progress towards creating a net zero economy by 2050.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Revealed: UK supermarkets linked to beef suppliers driving illegal Amazon deforestation

Business Green

But in one case involving a farmer doing business with the companies, multiple fires were recorded on land that had been embargoed after earlier deforestation, and the investigation tracked cattle supplied by the farmer implicated in this deforestation to abattoirs run by JBS and Marfrig.