DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The organisation is currently facing down a complaint to the UK Charity Commission, made by a cross-party group of MPs and the Good Law Project, who say the GWPF is not a charity, but rather a political lobbying group.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Some investors have spoken privately of an unwillingness to participate, however, given the nature of the policy changes in 2013. Spain enjoyed a subsidy-driven solar boom late last decade before suffering through a dramatic slowdown.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

That changed in 2013, when Richard Heede, cofounder of the Climate Accountability Institute, first launched the Carbon Majors database, a project that had required years of number crunching. Years of Number Crunching Findings like these weren’t always so readily available.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Notice eliminated any uncertainty by confirming that such pre-IRA guidance will be used for purposes of the IRA, including use of the Physical Work Test and Five Percent Safe Harbor under Notice 2013-29 and the Continuity Safe Harbor under Notice 2013-60 (in each case as updated, clarified and modified by subsequent notices).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2021, Biofuelwatch, a member of the CCNF coalition, instructed law firm Leigh Day to write to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) arguing that the subsidy contract for the power plant is unlawful and should be terminated.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In particular, controversy has dogged California’s cap-and-trade policy , which took effect in 2013 and regulates roughly 450 entities accounting for 85 percent of California’s emissions. The law directed state officials to consider the impacts of climate policies on "communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution."

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Cornerstone of government's post-Brexit green governance legislation on course to become law in the autumn – but concerns remain. It follows a report last year from NGO Global Witness which found UK financial institutions invested £5bn from 2013-2019 in companies found to have illegally deforested land.

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Eco-Business

MAY 24, 2021

A report by NGO Forest Trends found that tropical forests cleared for agricultural activities between 2013 and 2019 done in violation of national laws and regulations contributed significant greenhouse gas emissions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ramos, Republic Act 6957 or the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law paved the way for a rapid development of energy projects. 2001 – Republic Act 9136 or the EPIRA Law was passed, seeking the electric power industry by the privatization of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of the power sector.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These three laws provide lessons for other states interested in accelerating the transition to a cheaper, cleaner grid. Michigan’s securitization legislation was used in 2013 to securitize $390 million in unrecovered expenses from a retiring 950 MW plant. Securitization isn’t new, but it’s making a major comeback.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Biering, a partner at law firm Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan who focuses on energy regulation and compliance but who is not involved in this case. They’re asking PG&E to pay those costs or enter into the contracts at the rates they allege the law requires.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We all know that in many countries the DLMS protocol at application level is mandatory by law. Instead, the application layer and data model of the smart meter shall be compliant to DLMS/COSEM standard as specified in EN 62056-5-3:2013. That means the Network management is still in charge to Meters and more.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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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 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). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The funds are already allocated from state laws passed in 2007 and 2013, making them available for competitive funding solicitations or direct funding agreements over the next three years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Defra veteran was first appointed Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food in 2013 by then Prime Minister David Cameron, and has since served in the role under both Theresa May's and Johnson's premierships. He will also face calls to continue to drive reforms to the UK's waste regime and plastics regulations.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Department of Energy in President Obama’s second term, working with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from June 2013 through January 2017. Prior to that, Knobloch was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. has a net-zero target enshrined in law. A spokesperson told GTM that a final investment decision would be made ahead of construction work beginning in spring 2021. Despite a reputation for gray skies, the U.K.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Fama, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, goes as far as arguing stakeholder capitalism is "indefinite and ineffective," for this very reason. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success. The "value" created by stakeholder capitalism is difficult to measure, and this could limit its operational effectiveness. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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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 30, 2021

Miliband, who had an instrumental role stewarding the UK's Climate Change Act into law as Energy and Climate Change Secretary in 2008, said his priorities for the new brief would be leading Labour's Green New Deal policy platform, including its recent pledge to invest £28bn a year on climate action.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Under the RIIO regulatory construct, first set in place in 2013, their traditional process of earning rates of return on capital investments, the model used by most regulated utilities, is replaced with a system that compensates them on total controllable expenditures, or “totex.".

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. While the moss couldn’t tell you exactly how much pollution was in the air, it could be a perfect screening tool.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Last year a coroner ruled that air pollution exposure contributed to the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013 – the first time that air pollution was identified as a cause of death in the UK. 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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. “When I first read the letter, I nearly cried.

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GreenBiz

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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These records were set simultaneously in 2013 when the University of Maine deployed its VolturnUS 1:8 , a scaled version of its floating concrete semi-submersible offshore wind turbine design, in state waters off the shores of Castine, ME. Josh is a regular contributor to the Law & The Environment and Energy Climate Counsel blogs.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. Two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation plants continue to get subsidies of nearly $233,000 per day under House Bill 6, the 2019 law at the heart of an alleged $60 million conspiracy involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. It led to new environmental laws and more air monitors in the city. While the moss couldn’t tell you exactly how much pollution was in the air, it could be a perfect screening tool.

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Pollution South America Law Health 103

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. CSR is known as a soft law, which means initiatives are not legally binding.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. Two Ohio Valley Electric Corporation plants continue to get subsidies of nearly $233,000 per day under House Bill 6, the 2019 law at the heart of an alleged $60 million conspiracy involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.

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