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. 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image credit: Marmalade Photos / shutter stock.com By Ray Purdy, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin, writing in The Conversation The new BBC podcast, Buried , by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system.

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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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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

was the first major economy to enshrine a net-zero carbon goal in law, and in the recent election parties on all sides pledged support to a green industrial revolution to one extent or another. cable company win offshore wind contracts in Europe in 2012 and 2014. Last November UKEF guaranteed a 9.2 government-owned renewables investor.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). There are global initiatives that seek to make ecocide an international crime dating to the 1970s.

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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. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since its 2012 founding as CalCom Solar, the Fresno, Calif.-based But farmers are also dependent on steady and reliable electricity to meet water-pumping schedules that are often fixed by law, or by the needs of its crops and the growing season.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

But as project economics and scale have improved, and governments are locking in decarbonization laws, a very different environment has been created. With the exception of Total’s stake in SunPower, the trio was fairly quiet for 10 years post-2007. BP’s big pivot.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To protect people around the world so no one is exploited in supply chains, we need strong laws that compel companies to take action to mitigate the risk of forced labour,” Lea said. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The bill, which was introduced by Michael Quigley and Brian Fitzpatrick in 2012, has been in the pipeline for a long time. Currently, only five states, Nevada, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, have no laws protecting big cats. As such, it has become necessary to have a federally recognized law to protect these animals.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

Although there are laws that prohibit the trade of painted snails in Cuba, the illegal wildlife trade continues to threaten their existence. Between 2012 and 2016, about 23,000 painted snails were seized on their way to the U.S. Currently, all of the six species have been classified as being critically endangered.

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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

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. This includes a need to understand legislative developments holistically, rather than focusing on individual measures in isolation".

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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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

OCCRP found records showing that the ownership of four energy assets associated with Kovachki, including Brikel, were transferred to the Seychelles in 2011 and 2012. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. The ownership histories of several of the other plants are unclear. and Cyprus.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. See 16 U.S.C. §§ 825e–825f (2012).

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Italy has become the latest government to strengthen its legislative framework to better protect the environment, with the passage of a new constitutional law that places a formal requirement on the state to safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems and act "in the interest of future generations".

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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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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. The area of land under embargo has remained roughly the same.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Apparent has deployed our software+hardware energy solution in five states since 2012 and are looking to scale and implement growth opportunities in new markets. Our growing company was named in the top 250 fastest growing new companies in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Between 2010 and 2012, Finley earned a total of $713,138 for the 40 hours per week he worked for the IPTA, which is registered as a non-profit, tax-exempt organisation. Finley and Strode would not confirm whether he had received any income from the organisation since 2012 or provide DeSmog with the most recent tax returns.

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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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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New research from Global Witness has shown that Brookfield Asset Management, of whom Mark Carney was recently made Chair, was responsible for deforesting an area the size of 11,000 football pitches, across eight Brazilian farms it owned between 2012 and 2021. million flights between London and New York.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New research from Global Witness has shown that Brookfield Asset Management, of whom Mark Carney was recently made Chair, was responsible for deforesting an area the size of 11,000 football pitches, across eight Brazilian farms it owned between 2012 and 2021. million flights between London and New York.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

In 2012, one of the wells was shut-in, meaning the operator purposely turned a valve to stop the well from producing, a process which can be reversed to later restart production. The other well was shut-in in February last year, not long before Zalee’s family moved in. “Not He told me that he is haunted by Zalee’s death. “A

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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. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Honors) degree from National Law School from India University, Bangalore.

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