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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Much later, the unit would be embroiled in the manufactured “ ClimateGate ” scandal, after an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from its scientists in November, 2009. Multiple enquiries would clear the researchers of any wrongdoing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Brandon Lewis – Justice Secretary.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Background : As climate policies began to call for a coal power phase-out in the early 2000s, carbon capture became a means to keep the coal industry alive in a “cleaner” form. Blue hydrogen is the industry’s term for hydrogen produced by burning fossil gas through steam methane reformation. million tons developers had expected.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

API’s Climate Action Framework outlines the group’s preferred points of climate policy, including carbon capture projects akin to Exxon’s at Shute Creek , and Stein’s email clarifies that the industry’s climate priorities aim to keep positioning fossil gas as essential to the energy transition and climate action.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

So that was the basis for the EPA, under President Obama in 2009, setting the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. So that’s the loose relationship between the two, but regulating CO 2 doesn’t do anything for the other greenhouse gases that EPA regulates [fluorinated gases, methane and nitrous oxide]. I drive a Tesla.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach.

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