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. Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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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%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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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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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. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

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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. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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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 A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. “We

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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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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” An unnamed White House official told Bloomberg Law that the approach in the CEQ report remains open to modifications. “It

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AGreenLiving

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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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Aside from the pollution caused by burning shale gas, fracking is environmentally controversial due to its triggering of earth tremors , and the vast amount of water that it uses. It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was previously referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare in debates that his investment firm, Somerset Capital Management, held shares worth around £3 million in mining firms, £2.4 There are question marks over whether he stands to gain financially from any of these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It simultaneously acted as a potential solution to the worsening greenhouse gas crisis, while still remaining the biggest source of that pollution. Despite this massive increase in investment, the project’s coal gasification process did not operate reliably during testing as leaks were discovered. and eventually other nations.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One of the first investments Atlas made was in Venezuela, where it funded the launch of the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Information (CEDICE) in 1984. In the wake of the law’s passage and several arrests and court cases, Extinction Rebellion announced it would no longer engage in disruptive protest.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The project would also help Exxon clean up its image as one of the foremost corporate climate polluters. But in the absence of strong government support or regulation, the oil industry might not have the will to invest enough. Trump signed it into law. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The UK, birthplace of the industrial revolution, has signed it into law. This week Wells Fargo became the third heavyweight US bank in the last three months to ban Arctic oil investments - following Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase. Less than six years later, the concept of net zero emissions is a reality. 2020s draft picks.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With bipartisan energy compromise now law, advocates and some Democrats look to the budget to help protect the state’s poorest ratepayers. Many of the same communities live near power plants, compressor stations, and other fossil fuel infrastructure, exposing them to health-threatening pollution. These things add up super quick.”.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has spent $4 billion to fix this with a system of deep tunnels, stopping more than 145 billion gallons of pollution from spilling into Lake Michigan since the early 1990s. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those and other provisions in Virginia’s sweeping Clean Economy Act now face political uncertainty, though policy experts predict that much of the 2020 law will be able to withstand a partisan challenge thanks to Democrats’ narrow control of the state Senate. That would be my prediction.”. That doesn’t mean Republicans won’t try.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. Val Hoyle, 2012. She’s running on a climate platform with three overarching themes: rapid decarbonization, nature-based solutions that sequester carbon and restore forest and coastal ecosystems, and accountability for big polluters who have lied and misled the public about the climate crisis for decades.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2020

Asked to clarify his claim that a Joe Biden presidency would usher in an invasion of the suburbs by dark-skinned people, Trump noted that roughly a third of suburban residents are already “minorities” who want to “destroy suburbia” by changing zoning laws to build low-income housing. Obama’s use of “minorities” was noteworthy for its irony.

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