Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Customers demand it. Employees demand it. Partners and vendors demand it. The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse gives a heartbreaking and chilling reminder of this fact. On the 13th of May 2013, a eight-story high commercial building named the Rana Plaza collapsed killing 1,124 and injuring approximately 2,500 people.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

The UK government has announced a ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, but has stopped short of demanding that all motorists transition to electric and hybrid vehicles from that point on. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

The report also suggests that energy efficiency, demand response and storage could support reliability so that roughly a quarter of U.S. Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. coal capacity left in 2025 may not need replacement. “If None of these plants are spring chickens.”.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

The report also suggests that energy efficiency, demand response and storage could support reliability so that roughly a quarter of U.S. Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. coal capacity left in 2025 may not need replacement. “If None of these plants are spring chickens.”.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Pipeline injection is a national hydrogen strategy for the Netherlands, for Germany, for France, for Australia , for South Korea, for Japan,” said Mona Dajani, head of the renewable energy and green hydrogen practice of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ” U.S. green hydrogen pilots and proposals.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its ambitions are grand, with a mandate for 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045 matched by an impressive quiver of policies supporting DER growth, from laws requiring solar on all new homes starting next year to multi-billion dollar EV charging infrastructure investments.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. The history. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”. “I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Dubbed one of the “ Desperate Dozen ” imperiled species by conservationists, the diamond darter won a new lease on continued existence in 2013 when its name was added to the federal government’s list of protected endangered species. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

When we have the leakiest homes in Europe, we must slash our nation's energy demand to ensure we're using every last drop as efficiently as we can. What's the strategy to ensure this crisis doesn't happen again? Firstly, the cheapest energy is the energy we don't use. In a crisis, we need leadership.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2013, the UK government put in place a Climate Change Agreement with the data centre sector , which runs until 2023. If increasing demand for power is not counterbalanced by corresponding efficiency gains, we're going to have a problem. UK data centres have become a little more efficient over the last few years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. 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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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

These changes are made without additional hardware, and don’t affect the operations of computing tasks in constant demand like Google’s search engine or YouTube videos. Microsoft outlined the concept in a 2013 research paper, and “there are a lot of white papers since then laying out this idea.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India. and Canadian cities.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Each mode has a corresponding power profile, energy demand and drive train configuration, of which the latter is currently LNG/Diesel-Electric for each mode. The activity level on board is high, but power demand is less when compared to sailing. This could be the case with heavy and long lifts, or when weather conditions are demanding.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 degree limit as the main demand. The Chair of AOSIS refused to accept the text if it did not include a commitment to his demands. C was a demand that was not uncommon.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A 2013 state law prevents state or local governments from requiring project labor agreements, but the Biden administration can impose whatever standards it chooses for projects constructed in federal waters. To be sure, there is precedent for both the Biden administration and the wind developers to meet the demands of organized labor.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. The fleet market may be red-hot today, but as battery prices continue to decrease, demand for fleet EVs, and associated charging services, could break the thermometer. “We This was really the focus in 2010 through 2013. The fleet sector has pulled ahead.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Rain Newton-Smith, CBI chief economist: "The Committee's report rightly demands that the UK's net zero ambitions are matched by world-leading action. It's two years since the government put the net zero target into law, and whilst the long term ambition is brilliant, we urgently need to crack on with emissions reduction now. "We

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 20, 2024

A play fairway analysis was done (Petrolen & WellPerform, 2020) on the conversion of oil and gas wells to geothermal energy, identifying several requirements for its successful deployment including the guarantee of adequate well integrity and a nearby heat demand. Various development finance institutions provided the required financing.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Rain Newton-Smith, CBI chief economist: "The Committee's report rightly demands that the UK's net zero ambitions are matched by world-leading action. It's two years since the government put the net zero target into law, and whilst the long term ambition is brilliant, we urgently need to crack on with emissions reduction now. "We

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink “grill-stache.” Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India. and Canadian cities.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 17, 2021

The act sought to guarantee the right to vote among Black Americans and other racial minorities by banning election and voting laws that discriminated by race. In 2013, the Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Many of the states subjected to this preclearance had a history of discrimination in voting. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Meals on demand, no waiting time involved.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

If FERC approves the petition, it “could create chaos at the state level,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, said in a Thursday interview. In 2013, the trade group wrote a memo stating that distributed solar could “ directly threaten the centralized utility model.".

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Vaquero, 26, a third-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, grew up in public housing in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, where she still lives and where her parents settled after emigrating from Mexico nearly 30 years ago. There has been little change in her neighborhood since she was a child.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin’s worth has grown with increased demand. Friday’s move comes as New Delhi is inching closer to introducing a law that might ban non-public cryptocurrencies within the nation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

-based Atlas member think tank Policy Exchange put out a report in 2019 called “Extremist Rebellion,” describing Extinction Rebellion, an organization famous for shutting down parts of London to call for aggressive climate action, as “an extremist organization seeking the breakdown of liberal democracy and the rule of law.”

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

In India, there is a power shortage of 5,547 MW out of total demand; in Pakistan there is 8-10 hours per day of power otage, Bangladesh import 500 -1000 MW hydro power every day from India, Sri Lanka had extended per day power cut hour. Buffett, NY Times, 2013 ). billion poorest people means creation of demand, too. 2011-12).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The complaint, obtained by DeSmog via a public records request, accused the company of fraud, breach of contract, gross negligence, and willful misconduct, and demanded at least $457 million in damages. Luxembourg-based Apateq is a wastewater treatment company founded in 2013. Clearwater was a failure,” reads the complaint.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 24, 2021

The charging infrastructure program was guided by the state’s commitment to a 10-state memorandum of understanding, signed in 2013, to collectively deploy 3.3 The electric storage plan follows the legislature’s passage this year of a law establishing a statewide goal of deploying 1,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030.

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