GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation. DEMELLE That’s incredible.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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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.” and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. CASE’s analysis, published last year, recorded 111 SLAPPs in Europe in 2021, as opposed to four in 2010. Oil giants have even attempted to use laws intended to protect public participation in their own defense. While the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The green law group, which has taken the government to court numerous times over the past decade over the UK's failure to comply with EU air pollution rules, yesterday issued another warning that Ministers could once again face legal action unless they overhaul the country's air quality strategy.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Six months ago this week, the first Environment Bill in England for almost 30 years passed into law. Despite spending over 1,000 days in Parliament, passing laws is the easy bit - the real challenge comes in delivering on the detail. Shockingly, official figures show that not one river or lake in England is in good health.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, ecological psychology views humans as interconnected with the larger systems of nature and subject to its laws, and by virtue of our conscious awareness to be stewards of our shared planet. challenges students with the origins of the discipline, along with new research and current conversation.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, ecological psychology views humans as interconnected with the larger systems of nature and subject to its laws, and by virtue of our conscious awareness to be stewards of our shared planet. challenges students with the origins of the discipline, along with new research and current conversation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They also have implications for communities, in terms of health benefits, cost savings and employment opportunities. Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. 100% targets come in different forms. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. . Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As part of the investigation, the Environment Agency is reviewing potential breaches of environmental law. The move comes in the wake of a record £90m fine for Southern Water this summer , which saw the company found guilty of a "shocking disregard for the environment" that resulted in nearly 7,000 illegal spills between 2010 and 2015.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Such challenges include creating a diverse and equal workforce, human rights and workplace health and safety. In 2010 , Ambuja organized several plant-level social and environmental responsibility programs , which included improved water management in drought-prone areas. Benefit #1: CSR presents new business opportunity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It spans economics, health, social justice, and human rights.". Earlier in the month, the UN published a report concluding that the world had missed every one of the flagship biodiversity targets agreed by governments in 2010 in Aichi, Japan. Degradation of nature is not purely an environmental issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That changed in 2010, when the IPCC began a more concerted appraisal of how societies and economies could be helped to adapt to a world with a less stable climate. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed in 2010, when the IPCC began a more concerted appraisal of how societies and economies could be helped to adapt to a world with a less stable climate. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity.

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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. The SF6 Regulation took effect in 2011 and is codified in the same subchapter of the California Health and Safety Code as CARB’s mandatory GHG reporting and cap-and-trade regulations.

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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. The SF6 Regulation took effect in 2011 and is codified in the same subchapter of the California Health and Safety Code as CARB’s mandatory GHG reporting and cap-and-trade regulations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Between 2010 and 2018, the industry announced $200 billion worth of investments in new and expanded petrochemical projects across the country, projects reliant on fracked gas. Should these plans proceed, the petrochemical industry would account for nearly half the growth in oil demand by 2050. Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

Energy Monitor 28

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2010, they attended their first of many task-force meetings in a packed government building. But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. Bureaucrats, politicians, and fire experts from universities floated proposals for taking care of the wood. Let’s not waste taxpayer money.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The same day the inspector general released its report, the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, working on behalf of Taylor’s group, filed a petition calling on the EPA to force the Denka plant to immediately reduce toxic air emissions and require fenceline air monitoring for chloroprene and ethylene oxide. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Campaigners are also ramping up pressure for stricter regulations on fossil fuel companies — there are growing calls for “health warnings” to be placed on fossil fuel company ads in the same way that is required for tobacco companies across much of the world. ” Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The impacts would be similar to the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, “in terms of level of releases and resulting damages to the environment, health, and safety,” the Multnomah County report concluded. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. Yet the government has not identified and considered their specific needs as required by the Equality Act 2010.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? Initiative: Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. The number of companies voluntarily reporting on environmental risk is rapidly increasing and regulations making this type of disclosure mandatory are beginning to be written into law. Insight Engines.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. “I’m 55, and in my lifetime I’ve seen a landscape-level change.”. coal burning.”.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The authors stated in the original study that: Our results indicate that, thus far, California’s cap-and-trade program has not yielded improvements in environmental equity with respect to health-damaging co-pollutant emissions. This could change, however, as the cap on GHG emissions is gradually lowered in the future. .

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The authors stated in the original study that: Our results indicate that, thus far, California’s cap-and-trade program has not yielded improvements in environmental equity with respect to health-damaging co-pollutant emissions. This could change, however, as the cap on GHG emissions is gradually lowered in the future. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 18, 2024

BHRRC has documented 631 allegations of human rights abuses since 2010 for seven key minerals used in electric vehicles, rechargeable batteries, and renewable energy technologies. Across its entire data set going back to 2010, labor violations including 53 work-related deaths make up a quarter of all allegations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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