GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

Ambition Community Energy is a community interest company set up by Bristol-based charity Ambition Lawrence Weston, which was established in 2012 by a group of residents who wanted to enhance the area and restore a range of local services.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

The new study from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute, Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, finds that many lawsuits have not used the latest advances in attribution science as evidence. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith. “If

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Cases could also be grounded in domestic climate change framework laws, arguing that government actors are failing to comply with relevant duties established under these laws. It added that such cases could be particularly relevant for the bioenergy sector, as well as permitting processes for both renewables and fossil fuel projects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some of the APPG's other recommendations include the suggestion all planning law must be aligned with net zero climate targets and that net zero goals should be specifically included in all local plans. Climate science is crystal clear that we have to rapidly phase out fossil fuels if we want a liveable future.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Despite the UK having become the first major economy in the world to set in law a target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the survey suggests there is limited understanding among most of the British public of what 'net zero' actually means.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

If polluters are allowed to continue releasing polluting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere without consequence, it risks continuing to warm the planet at a time when experts warn countries must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. Carbon Management 3 , 393–410 (2012). Climate Policy (2012). An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement. & Huebner, G. Gillenwater, M. & & Seres, S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2012, for instance, a British project to reflect the sun with water droplets was canceled due to conflict-of-interest concerns over patents. This is why solar geoengineering has often been called a “moral hazard.”

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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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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

To elaborate, in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals , he articulates Categorical Imperative as “ So act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature ” (Gregor and Korsgaard,31). PHIL, vol 4, 2012, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. xxii-xxiii; Rentmeester, 81-82). Works Cited .

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. “I forget that this isn’t normal,” he says. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

Fossil Fuel plant in Venice, Louisiana, where sea level rise is a constant threat. She also questioned why it was possible for the project to get a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the federal law that protects species like dolphins by protecting their habitat. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012. The graph proved that the rise of global warming was man-made from burning fossil fuels.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. The idea behind the legislation was that plants would spring up to provide power to small towns, providing an economic incentive to clear fuels out of the path of future wildfires.

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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. "We

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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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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. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. The forestry industry is just like the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Then, in November 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Black Elk’s West Delta 32 platform off Louisiana’s coast, an incident that would ultimately lead to Black Elk being convicted of eight felonies and a misdemeanor. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7. 2012 Jun;12(3):221-7.

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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. “We

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ten days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, Wilkie Declouet, a former law enforcement officer, and lifelong resident of Ironton, posted photos to social media of coffins and tombs scattered around his neighborhood. . Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Isaac in 2012 also devastated Ironton. Haywood Johnson Jr.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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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. ” “Burning of fossil fuels which have taken millions of years to form has effectively upset the balance leading to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere,” Wilkinson wrote.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines.

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