Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. Why Climate Intelligence?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

When the measure failed , state green banks were established, beginning in Connecticut in 2011 and operating in 28 states as of last year. Since 2011, green banks have driven $14.8B During that 14 year legislative push, the organization has helped establish 20 local green banks and mobilize $9B in clean energy financing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive use of antibiotics on farms is a major driver of AMR in people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Total sales have fallen 53 percent from 2011 to 2022 in 25 European countries. She pointed out that over a third of the calories created by farming around the world feed livestock rather than people.

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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. A decade ago, the U.S.

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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. A decade ago, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry. Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 petrochemicals will account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand, and for almost 50% of demand by 2050.

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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. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He came to some prominence several years ago as the leader of a small but loud contingent of German politicians who did not want Germany to bail out other EU countries like Greece during the 2011 debt crisis. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists. In those U.S.

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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. Gox in 2011. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The complaint, obtained by DeSmog via a public records request, accused the company of fraud, breach of contract, gross negligence, and willful misconduct, and demanded at least $457 million in damages. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

In India, there is a power shortage of 5,547 MW out of total demand; in Pakistan there is 8-10 hours per day of power otage, Bangladesh import 500 -1000 MW hydro power every day from India, Sri Lanka had extended per day power cut hour. billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The Robin Rogers.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Young leaders of color building resilient communities Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.: Credit: Fernando Lopez for Survival Media Agency.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Tiger abuse in the U.S. was on the radar well before Netflix aired “Tiger King.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In 2011, the Haynesville shale was the top producer of gas in the U.S. With FERC approval and the demand for LNG increasing globally, the project is well-positioned to add new customer commitments,” Sailor said in a statement announcing the green light for Gulf Run. In June, about 15 percent of the gas produced in the U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The book documents how today’s prevailing anti-regulatory and anti-government postures that deride Big Government and cheer for Big Business did not arise simply from grassroots demands. What is now colloquially called EEI, was launched in 1885 as the National Electric Light Association, or NELA. kilowatt output,” according to the book.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It's not enough for companies to report about their financial activities and liabilities as required by law, according to Sen. Nor is it enough for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to demand, as expected soon, that businesses report about climate liabilities as well. Sheldon Whitehouse. What else companies should do.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. Dozens of deaths , including that of an 11-year-old boy, have been tied to the weather.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

His influence can bee seen in Trump's unrelenting altercations with the law. This is a man who as president uses the vernacular of organized crime, calling people who tell the truth "rats". Cohen said he broke the law at the direction of president Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election.

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