DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: 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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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. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We have targets enshrined in law to tackle the climate emergency, but none, yet, to reverse the crisis facing nature. Public funding for the environment dropped nearly 30 per cent from £641m in 2012/2013 to £456m in 2017/2018, according to the report.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5

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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. For contractors, the long term contract provides the certainty needed to enable investment in planning, training, and new technologies.

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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. The report also predicts disputes over what constitutes 'renewable energy' or 'green' investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

The companies are set to start engineering and design work immediately, with a view to a final investment decision being taken next year, Chevron said in a statement. The French Citizens' Climate Convention used its final meeting this week to launch a stinging attack on the government's attempts to translate its recommendations into law. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In order to drive up growth and investment, Kwarteng is expected to announce plans for new legislation to speed up the delivery of around 100 major infrastructure projects across the UK, prioritising schemes across transport, energy and digital infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Today at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government committed to double the funding target of the Clean Oceans Initiative to €4bn by 2025.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. Her work has been featured by NACD, Corporate Secretary, Pensions and Investment, CQ Roll Call, Marketwatch, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Environmental Leader and Responsible Investor.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

are making investments to recover from these damages and prevent them from escalating in the future. 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.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and GROSSE POINTE, MI – February 13, 2012 – Hub Ventures (www.hub-ventures.com), a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world, today announced an innovative collaboration with Lakeland Ventures Development (LVD) of Grosse Pointe, MI ( www.lakelandventuresdevelopment.com ).

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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. billion funds have been invested into GHG-reducing projects. To date, $10.5 These design features include: Doubling the annual cap decline from 2 to 4 percent from 2021 to 2030.

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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. 15 Offsets can also provide a disincentive for an emitter to invest in carbon reduction (i.e. Carbon Management 3 , 393–410 (2012). Climate Policy (2012). & Huebner, G. Gillenwater, M. &

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. ” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. In an email response Enviva’s director of communications and public affairs María Moreno wrote that Enviva follows all applicable environmental laws, including the U.S.

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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? People were not as invested in the future as they were in the present. Case in point is the 2012 Colorado River Basin study by the Bureau of Reclamation. Was there an “aha” moment?

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

While utilities can’t earn a profit on some of the costs of doing business — such as fossil gas purchases and employee payroll — regulatory rules do allow them to earn a return on capital investments, like pipes and meters. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012. A Sidelined Solution.

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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. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The UK government protests that it's increased its green investment," he said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 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. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Until economies of scale kick in, solar recycling remains a low-margin business that doesn't justify investment in new technologies - some of which are available, but not yet implemented commercially, Heath said. Laws and landfills. There's a big regulatory barrier that gets in the way of some potential solar recycling.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. In an email response Enviva’s director of communications and public affairs María Moreno wrote that Enviva follows all applicable environmental laws, including the U.S.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. At the New York City E-Prix in July, Formula E co-founder and Chief Championship Officer Alberto Longo told Charged that, back in 2012, a lot of sponsors were starting to be concerned about the environmental aspects of gas-powered motorsports. “It

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

In November, Massachusetts passed a resolution to bolster its 2012 automotive right to repair law — the first and only right to repair law on the books in the U.S. Despite its limited scope, the 2012 law led to a national standard for automakers and the recent resolution is expected to have similar effects.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

A recent research paper has called out the investment and sustainability communities for paying insufficient attention to the ESG impacts of cannabis cultivation, notably its sizable environmental footprint. But some critics are making a hash of that reputation. This is no modern-day temperance movement.

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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.

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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. trillion in cash and investments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

He recruited Greg Nugent and Godric Smith, who led the hugely successful marketing and communications effort for the 2012 Games, and they advised that government needed to deliver a full spectrum effort with central control similar to that which helped deliver the London Olympics. But such an effort has not materialised.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Until recently, millionaire hedge fund manager and major Enviva backer Jeffrey Ubben sat on a TNC investment advisory board and on Enviva’s board simultaneously. (In 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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