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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

Green Business Bureau has been focused on creating a sustainable business world since its founding in 2009. In 2009, a very small percentage of companies were green businesses, mostly led by founders who were huge advocates of saving the planet from climate change. A look back at the history of Green Business Bureau.

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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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Grist

JULY 19, 2019

The organization identified Mauna Kea as a potential location for its proposed Thirty Meter Telescope back in 2009. On Wednesday, law enforcement in riot gear came to the Mauna Kea protest site and arrested 33 elders who described themselves as the “first line of defense.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I had to grapple with my love for my city at the same time as I witnessed the compounding effects of of an oil-based economy.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. Oregon and British Columbia have a similar low-carbon fuel standard and Washington state just passed a law creating one.). The two organizations said renewable gas consumption for transportation fuel jumped 267% over the past five years.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. particulate matter are designated as “unhealthy.”

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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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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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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

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” California has done exactly that.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of Dye’s complaints alleges that several NW Natural employees manipulated meter test data to obscure the installation of a batch of defective meters in 2009 — which remained in the field for seven years. In October 2021, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) received a referral from the U.S.

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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 It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. At the end of 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit, COP15 , was held in Copenhagen. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From 2009-2015, smart policies created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the stimulus program launched after the Great Recession, helped clean energy drive national economic recovery. Energy efficiency is the largest employer in the U.S. energy sector, employing nearly 2.4 an hour last year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

Green banks have been a part of the “sustainable investing” conversation in the US since the early 2000s, with a national green bank first proposed during the Obama-Biden administration in 2009. All the GGRF money has to be deployed by September 2024. I spent about 10 years at DOE on the energy policy side. Got green bank envy?

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. This also means that as early as the 1980s, the people who would define the laws of nations around the world also knew about climate change. Their purpose was to help keep policy makers updated with the latest science on climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2020

Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, wrote in a tweet that NERA’s petition “seeks to end net metering as we know it.” The day after NERA’s filing, FERC set a May 14 deadline for parties that might oppose or support it to file comments that could influence its decision.

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Home is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Greta gained public attention after organizing a one-person strike at her school to demand climate justice.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But the agency didn’t fine or otherwise penalize K-Solv.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Meanwhile, Shell would commission British scientist James Lovelock — later a renowned proponent of the “Gaia Theory” of earth as a self-regulating organism — to investigate the possible global consequences of pollution from fossil fuels.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. If they think laws and police are necessary, it is only because they don’t believe that other people are.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. And the U.S. In version zero.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ Political support improved under Barack Obama in 2009.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

A study published in 2009 found that it had sequestered less than one-tenth the carbon expected. We asked nonprofits and carbon offset companies to give us good examples of land managers capturing carbon in exchange for money — the sort that the Global Climate Solutions Act might expand upon if President Joe Biden signed it into law.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ Political support improved under Barack Obama in 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It took pressure from the whole world seeing Putin’s “horrific international law and human rights abuse,” Romanko said, for most of them to publicly announce they would pull out of their stakes in Rosneft, Gazprom, or other joint ventures. The [oil and gas industry] is trying to wrap themselves in this patriotic flag,” Henn said.

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