Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

Covid-19 Lessons: We can’t put climate change on hold while we deal with a pandemic. But we can listen to Covid-19’s message and take climate action before it gets worse. In other words, Covid-19 is like a warm-up for how to respond to climate change. Covid-19 Lesson #2: System-Wide Change Is Needed.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Julia Olson, the lawyer who took Curry’s deposition, has described her as “the number one climate skeptic scientist that the Republicans go to for testimony in Congress, that the fossil fuel industry goes to.” She does not have a leg to stand on,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told DeSmog.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These are just a handful of the hundreds of cases of climate litigation that have arisen worldwide over the past few years. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Does engaging with oil and gas giants by remaining invested in them – keeping a “seat at the table” – help in the fight against climate change? . Sharfman, of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. 1’s activism at Exxon wasn’t really about mitigating climate change. The fund has an estimated $7.4

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The research report, “ Smaller businesses and the transition to net zero “, highlights the potential collective influence of UK smaller businesses and the considerable contribution they could make to wider net zero objectives if they all made changes to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. The science behind biomass is there for everyone to see – it worsens climate change and has an expensive and polluting supply chain.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Boris Johnson’s reshuffle has dominated the news this week – but what does it mean for government policy on climate change? As might be expected, several cabinet ministers were involved in campaigning for Brexit, whose crossover with climate science denial and environmental deregulation DeSmog has reported on extensively.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Two weeks after rubber-stamping RIS2 last year, the Department for Transport (DfT) published a decarbonisation strategy in which Transport Secretary Grant Shapps described climate change as “the most pressing environmental challenge of our time”. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

West Cumbria Mining, backed by venture capital company EMR, first proposed the mine in 2014, and was backed by Cumbria County Council. After the UK parliament passed more stringent carbon targets in 2019, setting in law the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, questions about the climate effects of the mine mounted.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

A well-connected motorcycle lobby group is denying climate science and telling bikers that climate change is an “eco-fraud” that will “cost you your freedom”, DeSmog can reveal. DUP leaders have a long record of climate science denial. Climate is changing because it has always changed”, it says.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Among the earliest was one filed by activist economist Jeremy Rifkin in 1992, challenging several US agencies that, according to the suit, did not consider the effects of climate change in their policies. Just over 800 cases were filed between 1986 and 2014, but more than 1,000 have been brought before the courts since then.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

” The report comes just before president-elect Joe Biden is to take office, pledging an unprecedented buildout of clean energies like solar in order to tackle climate change. based human rights and customs law experts” to create a “supplier qualification and traceability protocol.” Canada and elsewhere.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In other words, climate change. ” called out a man in a black polo shirt.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Too often, people scrutinize science issues only if they fall within their narrow focus of interest: climate change, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food. Previously, FTI consultants working for Western Wire had tried to question an attorney representing communities suing ExxonMobil about climate change.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

13] US Government Accountability Office (GAO), “Regulatory Impact Analysis Development of Social Cost of Carbon Estimates, Appendix I: Regulatory Actions, by Agency and Type of Social Cost of Carbon Estimates Used, 2008-2014,” (Jul. 2014), [link]. [14] 2016), [link]. [6] 2017), [link]. [7] 2021), [link]. [9] 9] Ibid, at 4. [10]

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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. The drought and heat have been made far worse by climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. Extraordinary sums of money, invested on behalf of California’s public employees and teachers, are on the line.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

When climate change doesn’t seem to affect you directly, it can be easy to overlook. Low-income communities and communities of color are especially at risk; think Flint, Michigan, when a 2014 policy change led to at least 100,000 people losing access to clean water. This is where environmental justice comes in.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Major supermarkets, food suppliers, and investors once again urge Brazil's government to withdraw proposed law they warn could exacerbate rainforest destruction. Co-op's head of policy Cathryn Higgs said it was "imperative the proposed legislation isn't given any airtime by the Brazilian government". "We

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The North East Somerset MP has such a long record of opposing action to cut emissions that he’s got his own profile in DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database. Back in 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”. The Middlers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Ohio Power Siting Board last month had 7,783 MW of solar projects in its regulatory pipeline , almost all of which had applications pending before the effective date of a new siting law that is expected to complicate future projects. The shift also is important for addressing climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state. Since its launch in 2014 , the EIM has led to an estimated $920 million in benefits for participating utilities, by allowing them to correct for gaps between exchanges organized via day- or hour-ahead agreements and fluctuating real-time energy demands.

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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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Her comments were echoed by Ken Murphy, CEO at Tesco, who said: "This is a critical time to take action on climate change. The sector doubled in size every year between 2014 and 2017 when there was, albeit reducing, government support.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Consumers saw that, as gasoline prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. President Biden followed that action up with Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Biden in November. Europe’s natural gas crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

This lack of return consideration means that, in common law, an agreement to make a donation is an “imperfect contract void for want of consideration. ’’ Between 2001 and 2011, the nonprofit sector increased 25 percent. Last accessed 6th may 2014. Last accessed 6 may 2014. Last accessed May 2014. Last accessed May,2014.

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