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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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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. Carbon Management 3 , 393–410 (2012). WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

This former plantation land’s modern nicknames are Cancer Alley and Death Alley because of the pollution-induced illness rife in the riverside communities. This is some of America’s most polluted air, with eight major industrial plants in 103 square miles and a new, enormous plastic project on the horizon. While only 13% of the U.S.

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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

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 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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment. Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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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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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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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

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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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.

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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. It’s hard to find anyone who says that solar geoengineering should be deployed anytime soon — or ever.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

He doesn’t think the agency should play a role in making a decision about it; he blames the Army Corps for what he describes as the mess at the mouth of the Mississippi River where there is rapid land loss and a growing deadzone where the river’s polluted river water enters the Gulf. Cooper said.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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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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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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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. The problem is those laws are all state-based and every state has to make that change at the level of the utility commission.

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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. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming).

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2023

There’s been a ban on uranium mining in the area since 2012 , but that was set to expire in 2032. Despite the new protections, the designation of a national monument won’t infringe on existing mining claims that predated the 2012 ban. With a national monument in place, that temporary ban becomes permanent.

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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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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 ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. In August, the 98-year-old company joined the U.S.

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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

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.

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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.

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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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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

While RGGI is designed to reduce CO2 emissions, it inevitably leads to reductions in other pollutants from power plants, like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. The council decided to meet and review the standards anyway , which were last updated in 2012. It also helped kids breathe. on Jul 29, 2020.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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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. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. In August, the 98-year-old company joined the U.S.

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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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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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