GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. They were working for ‘blood money’.”.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

States and cities that adopt the IECC will effectively require new buildings to cut energy use an average of more than 10 percent compared to the previous code, and by more than a third compared to the 2009 version, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Consumer Choice Center – a US-based group which has links to the Koch fossil fuel network – has lobbied against green policies in the EU through social media adverts and articles in influential publications without being registered as a lobby group.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 Here, in South Africa, activists are battling not just oil companies but their own government, which supports the project because it believes fossil fuel exploration will boost the country’s energy security and would bring new jobs that would aid economic development of this remote region.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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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.” Advocates push through slushy slow to testify in support of the HEAL Act during the bill’s first hearing on Feb. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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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. Fuels are valued based on a formula developed by Argonne National Laboratory.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One of the most high-profile campaigns, Clean Creatives, has attracted growing attention for its efforts to target the PR and advertising industry over its work with fossil fuel clients. Where there is clear evidence that environmental claims breach consumer law, the CMA warned, it may well consider taking regulatory action.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Accordingly, the GHG reporting and cap-and trade regulations apply primarily to large industrial, manufacturing, refining, and fossil fuel plants.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

In 2009 and 2010, CARB conducted a rulemaking to develop the regulation for monitoring and limiting SF6 emissions. Accordingly, the GHG reporting and cap-and trade regulations apply primarily to large industrial, manufacturing, refining, and fossil fuel plants.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As discussed in previous posts , the POET I case arose from Petitioner POET, LLC’s challenges to the original LCFS regulation adopted by CARB in 2009. The freeze, put in place by CARB to comply with a writ of mandate, will now be lifted following the discharge of the writ.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. has operated an emissions offset system since 2009 to attain carbon-neutral government operations. An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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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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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

but also the majority of fossil fuel jobs which paid an average of $24.37 Moreover, unlike fossil fuels, clean energy occupations are found in every state, regardless of geology or geography. Jobs in wind and solar power, for instance, pay a $24.85 hourly median wage, beating not only the national median of $19.14

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. The idea behind the legislation was that plants would spring up to provide power to small towns, providing an economic incentive to clear fuels out of the path of future wildfires. In the 2000s, we were demonized,” Turner said. It’s dirty power.

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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. Fueled by a New York-based hedge fund, Black Elk had embarked on a buying spree in the Gulf — and not just for oil assets. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Building Energy Monitoring 36

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. This was widespread knowledge within Exxon, Shell, and other fossil fuel based companies long before it gained media attention. Their purpose was to help keep policy makers updated with the latest science on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lunch with a group of Wake Forest law students in the Worrell Professional Center on Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

So far, the continent has received just 12% of the funding it needs to adapt to climate change and rich nations have failed to follow through on their 2009 pledge to provide $100B annually to help poorer countries reach climate goals.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. viii] Due to warmer winters, cases of Lyme disease increased more than 300% between 2009 and 2015. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). xii] [xiii]. billion in health-related costs per year.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Home is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. This period is marked by our industrial revolution with the discovery of fossil fuel gold and its sinister implications. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. The U.S. ,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

“In order to combat the climate crisis and meet our clean energy goals, we must transition away from fossil fuels and change the way gas utilities do business in our state,” Healey said in a statement. ” Nilles pointed to the recent increase in spending by natural gas companies to upgrade their pipeline networks.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lunch with a group of Wake Forest law students in the Worrell Professional Center on Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Photo by Wake Forest University School of Law/Flickr.

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