Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

Have you read: Global leaders vow to strengthen energy security and accelerate clean energy transitions Decarbonisation more cost effective than polluting alternatives in Central America IRENA’s Francesco La Camera spotlights next steps for climate action after COP26. Opportunities for emission reduction. Emissions growth rates.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Scenes like this gained widespread attention after the 2010 Josh Fox documentary “Gasland,” and the town of Dimock became one of the most iconic and high-profile examples of water contamination from fracking. He cautioned that state laws leave few legal tools to hold corporate polluters accountable.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The giant retailer stands accused of violating California’s environmental laws in its dumping of hazardous waste in landfills that are not equipped to handle such waste. From there, these products may seep into the state’s drinking water as toxic pollutants or into the air as dangerous gases,” Bonta said in a statement.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. 3) It’s funding big polluters. Corporate beneficiaries of this programme include Repsol, Airbus, BMW, Total Capital, E.ON, and Shell – some of the biggest polluters on the continent.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One 1979 memo distributed to Exxon management , about a report conducted by Steve Knisley of Exxon’s Research and Engineering Department, accurately predicted the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by 2010 and referenced the “ecological consequences of increased CO2 levels.” Shell was ahead of its time.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

Ministers must press ahead with bold biodiversity targets that can unlock much-needed public and private investment for efforts to enhance nature and tackle air, water and waste pollution, argues The Wildlife Trusts' Eliot Chapman-Jones. Six months ago this week, the first Environment Bill in England for almost 30 years passed into law.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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Grist

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From catastrophic oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident, to the thousands of smaller spills that occur each year, to the more than 100 billion barrels of toxic wastewater produced annually from fracking, the scale of the issue is alarming, especially given how limited the available technology is to clean it up.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Due to a law passed last year by the Italian government all students will now study both climate change and sustainable development. The syllabus offers lessons on how to live more sustainably, how to combat the pollution, and how to address poverty and social injustice.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several Wildlife Trusts in central England are working with Severn Trent to support delivery of the company's commitment to a ‘Big Nature Boost' across 5,000 hectares and stop soils, chemicals and pollutants from entering rivers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby. The RRC did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. And it’s certainly not the diamond darter alone that’s feeling the brunt of this mountaintop removal-linked water pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A negotiator representing the Cook Islands at the UN who has been criticised for blocking efforts to tackle global shipping emissions has been paid at least $700,000 since 2010 by an industry lobby group he helps run with his wife. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It comes amidst a growing public campaign in protest at the practice of wastewater plants releasing sewage into waterways in the wake of heavy rains, which saw the government accused of failing to adequately tackle dangerous levels of pollution. Over 2,000 sewage treatment works are involved in the investgation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Companies are permitted to apply for ISA contracts to explore and exploit deep sea minerals if they are sponsored by governments that have ratified the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This includes large swathes of the seabed reserved for developing Pacific island nations, according to the findings.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

The latest report highlights the effectiveness of rises in landfill tax, which saw the amount of waste sent to landfill reduce by 75 per cent between 2010-11 and 2020-21. Aside from being unsightly and polluting, it costs the economy almost £1bn a year. Yet this may be just the tip of the iceberg.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The report directs the agency to review its rules, as required by the Clean Air Act, for both of these carcinogenic air pollutants, which newer scientific evidence has found raise the cancer risk for people living near facilities emitting them. John the Baptist Parish — has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. . The activist is one of two hundred plaintiffs suing Italy for taking insufficient action to fight climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ).

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. Reacting to DeSmog’s findings, Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, said “the industry’s ‘climate and society friendly’ messaging is nothing new.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Since 2010 the price of constructing solar power has dropped by 80 per cent , making it cheaper to build and operate than essentially every form of electric generation on earth. These are the intellectual and creative minds that keep the pipelines pumping, and pollution cheap.

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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

The Government claims that those producing pollution should bear the cost of managing it. 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.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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