GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

Since 2012, an estimated 55 coal, oil, and natural gas projects have been proposed for the Pacific Northwest — encompassing Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia. First, developers proposed a series of coal train projects in the early 2010s, as domestic coal demand went into decline but was soaring overseas.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. Adding a price ceiling at which an unlimited number of additional allowances will be sold to satisfy high demand and contain costs. Retaining a 100 percent leakage assistance factor for industry.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Navigating existing property rights as coastlines shift will demand innovations in governance and law across contexts, including situations where land tenure is weak or the territorial integrity of nations may be at stake. Effectively managing climate change risks can support vibrant communities and robust economies.

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When did you both realize that the conventional wisdom about the framers of Colorado River law using bad data was incorrect? Kuhn : One place where the data is being ignored is with municipal demands. Demands have been going down. Case in point is the 2012 Colorado River Basin study by the Bureau of Reclamation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is a testament and recognition of the decades-long commitment of Greenpeace activists to demand climate protection and stay below the 1.5C The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment. target will be the guideline for Germany's climate foreign policy.".

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), with growing demand for beef in particular swallowing up land - sometimes illegally - for grazing and cultivating soy for cattle feed, and often at the expense of tropical forest. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Supported by the French agency for ecological transition ADEME, the GAYA project aims to help deliver on French legal targets for a 50 per cent reduction in the quantity of waste going to landfill by 2025 compared with 2010 and a 30 per cent reduction in fossil fuel consumption in 2030 compared with 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It follows plans announced by the government to lift the ban on fracking in England, hand out further oil and gas licenses in the North Sea, and to scale back hundreds of regulations and laws originally derived from the EU by the end of next year, all of which prompted ire from green groups.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. Some segments of the media adopted a more frenzied tone, blurring facts in an effort to get clicks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The greenest shoots of the economic transition demanded by the climate emergency are found in the transformatory and locally-led initiatives we see up and down the UK," said Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Also, the demands for medium- and heavy-duty battery packs are much more complex. Megawatt charging is going to have really high demand charges [fees that utilities charge if peak demand exceeds a certain level] unless you have some way to mitigate those peaks. As the new hire, I got to ask them a question—this was 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

Since the project was proposed in 2012, it has seen wide support by state leaders and environmental advocacy groups including the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, the Audubon Society, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana remains. she continued. .

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

The campaign was a deliberate attempt to divert attention from more meaningful solutions like bottle bills, yet environmental groups embraced it, according to Recycling Reconsidered , a 2012 book by Samantha MacBride, who directed New York City’s sanitation department for two decades. The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The Natural Capital Committee, a body set up in 2012 to advise the UK government how to manage England's natural capital efficiently and sustainably, produced one of the first templates for companies to develop their own accounts. Ultimately, Business for Nature would like to see corporate natural capital accounting underpinned by law.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Garvin Heath, distinguished member of the research staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), said a handful of companies - notably First Solar , Cascade Eco Minerals and Solar Cycle - offer end-of-life services to solar developers, but there isn't yet enough demand for the service to incentivize more growth.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

per cent of all openings in 2012, to just 1.1 Danker described the recent review of the UK's Net Zero Strategy from Conservative MP Chris Skidmore as a "devastating" indictment of the government's record which "echoes CBI analysis of the UK's performance against our competitors in future green industries". per cent in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 I’m astounded.”

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7. 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7. International journal of environmental research and public health vol. May 1, 2019.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The coalition demanded that TNC stop “promoting false climate solutions” that “center the financial interests of large lumber, pulp/paper, biomass/wood-pellet and other corporations.”. has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. The value of exported pellets in 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

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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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, in 2012, the legislature created an exemption for EV charging. In a related development, Florida Senator Jeff Brandes recently wrote an op-ed in which he called for utilities to eliminate peak demand charges for EV charging stations. ChargePoint supported the law, as did several of the investor-owned utilities).

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. The fleet market may be red-hot today, but as battery prices continue to decrease, demand for fleet EVs, and associated charging services, could break the thermometer. “We We’ll be applying that kind of technological progress to the Formula E Gen3 charging application.”.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the course of his three-decade career at Microsoft, the law school graduate has made a name for himself through a string of diplomatic successes as he helped settle disputes with some of the firm's biggest competitors and bring to a close long-running antitrust battles with US government and the European Commission.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

1] Looking ahead, SCAG estimates that total demand for warehouse space in its region in 2040 will be between 1.514 billion square feet and 1.809 billion square feet. [2]. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4].

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate Letitia James in front of the New York Stock Exchange to demand that the city’s five public pension funds factor the financial risks of climate change into their investment decisions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. Shell and other oil and gas companies have been named as defendants in dozens of U.S. and other municipalities across the country. The Washington D.C.-based

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Utility demand charges —steep fees that commercial customers pay when their power consumption exceeds a certain level—are the bane of public charging operators, and most Charged readers are probably familiar with how they work. Demand charges are especially onerous for small businesses that want to install DC fast chargers.

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