Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5 Available at: [link].

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And it was essentially a dead stock for over a decade – between 2009 and 2019. Disclosure – Author: Carbon Credits – Sponsored Article IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Carbon Credits, as a publisher, is not a broker, investment advisor, or financial advisor in any jurisdiction.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the most ambitious agreements the world has ever seen to slow tropical forest loss is the Brazilian Cattle Agreement, a 2009 pledge by the largest meat companies to not source cattle from land illegally deforested in the Amazon. With it comes rising hopes that Brazil will be able to close a big implementation gap in its forest code.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

Carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every two years for the next decade for the world to keep within safe limits of global heating, research has shown. It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. As a result, the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the report, the CCC warned Scotland had failed to achieve seven out of 11 of its legal targets since the Scottish Climate Change Act become law in 2009, and said this "trend of failure will continue without urgent and strong action to deliver emissions reductions, starting now".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Compared to when Bolsonaro took office, the state of the forest has been on a downward spiral following weakened environmental laws. The target, which was set in a climate-related law in 2009, was aimed at reducing deforestation and carbon emissions as well as protecting the natural habitat.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

An area where the report was surprisingly light on detail was reform within the commercial property sector as a means to reduce carbon emissions. Although EPCs provide a simple indicator of energy and carbon performance, this rating is theoretical, based upon a model of the building's design.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. The standard seeks to slash the carbon intensity of transportation fuel 20% by 2030, with annual benchmarks for gasoline, diesel, and greener replacement fuels. carbon intensity value of natural gas vehicles below zero for the first time in history.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Combined with the scrapping of the Code for Sustainable Homes and the Zero Carbon Homes initiative, weak planning rules have also undermined progress towards the government's low-carbon housing goals, the report alleges. Natural England's budget has fallen by 72 per cent and its staff by 20 per cent, it adds.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The findings come at a time of increased scrutiny of failings in EU transparency laws, following allegations in December that MEPs had been bribed by Qatar, Mauritania, and Morocco. The group has claimed that EU plans to become carbon neutral by 2050 would have disastrous economic consequences.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

California Air Resources Board lifts freeze on Low Carbon Fuel Standard. On December 7, 2018, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued Regulatory Guidance Document 18-02 which lifts the freeze on Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) diesel and diesel substitute targets previously enacted by CARB in 2017 in connection with the POET I case.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

🦴 BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the "backbone," providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. — three climate policy packages since 2021.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. In this third post, we examine how California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program factors into the state’s GHG reduction goals and how the LCFS Program may be amended in the near future.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Having learned that buildings account for 63% of the region’s carbon emissions, the climate group decided to pursue a building hub. New York City adopted a building performance standard in 2009 and has operated an energy exchange since 2010. Louis, Sadowski will not have the force of local law behind her. Unlike in St.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the “backbone,” providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. three climate policy packages since 2021. Total funding: $1.2T

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 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. And earlier this month, Shell was granted the right to appeal this decision.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Microsoft also positions itself as a climate champion, publicly vowing to reach 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2025 and to become a “carbon negative” company by 2030. In 2009, for example, Apple and Nike and a handful of utilities quit the U.S. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

An academic study published last week which assessed the green claims made by four global oil majors - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP - between 2009 and 2020 concluded that "until actions and investment behaviour are brought into alignment with discourse, accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded" for all of them.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. These facilities were also more likely to be in disadvantaged communities. (In-state

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South can be traced back to 2009, when wood pellets were touted as a “transition fuel” that could be used to advance the EU’s climate goals — a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and a 20 percent increase in renewable energy by 2020. The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Under the deal, emissions are to be capped at 1,233 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030, effectively instituting a declining annual limit of 140 million tonnes for the rest of the decade. If successful, the aviation firm plans to launch its first commercial zero-carbon flight from Skelleftea in 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal. The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief. We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?. carbon back?into

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In his remarks, Kenyan President William Ruto framed the moment as an opportunity to align on a vision of sustainable development across the continent, and particularly in Kenya, which has already drawn some investments in carbon removal and green ammonia. toward clean energy investments and $450M for carbon credits.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog. Every word, every dollar is the government.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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