AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Of course, we already know that it is extremely salty and that it has heavy metals and other organics that are dangerous and harmful to human health and the environment.” EPA vs. State “Primacy”.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Even more important to BlocPower - which specialises in clean energy retrofits - is Local Law 97. Passed in 2019, the law requires existing buildings over 25,000 square feet to start lowering emissions in 2024 and to reach a reduction of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050. Robert Clark falls into this latter category.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I just happened to get called to this church in the same week the Flint water crisis began, unknowingly during that time, the water was switched over (to the Flint River) in April of 2014. For about a year-and-a-half beginning in 2014, the water crisis did not receive much attention.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. I wasn’t enamored with practicing law — it certainly wasn’t something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Energy markets in the U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

billion spent in California to install solar in 2013, according to the SEIA, and more expected to have been spent in 2014, the golden state’s solar industry is still vulnerable to be toppled from its ruling position. Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s A recent analysis by environmental organization Stand.earth found that the B.C. We’ll continue to watch how the sector and policy evolves.”.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

The Edison Electric Institute has battled against solar net-metering policies for years. The petition has been condemned by environmental advocates, solar industry groups, state utility regulators and Democrats in Congress as a legally unsound and economically destructive attack against states’ authority over their own energy policies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Here is how they might act in those areas.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). But Nepal is still poorest owing to proper utilisation policy. America had a Gini coefficient of.47 47 in 2012.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Chinese government at all times asks Chinese firms to abide by international rules and host country laws and rules when conducting worldwide cooperation. Your most suitable option for carpet and upholstery cleaning within the wider Wellington space, Mrgreencarpets have been delivering great service since 2014.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the same year that Last Generation was blocking roads in Germany, farmers used the exact same tactic , blocking roads with their tractors to protest a renewable energy policy that they don’t feel provides enough incentives for biogas. Not a single farmer was punched in the face or dragged off the road by their hair.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 13, 2020

Other proposed environmental policy changes include funding preparedness efforts for climate change-related disasters, subsidizing community-owned sustainable energy solutions and funding for returning and preserving sacred sites to Indigenous communities. The Movement for Black Lives is a nationwide coalition composed of Black organizations.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. authorities on 1 July 2014.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

But before bulldozers started digging into corn and soybean fields to widen the ditch, dozens of people and organizations had to get on board with the plan. Enforcing laws and regulations is the more direct route. When I first met Jones in 2014, he thought all the voluntary measures farmers were trying would make a dent in the problem.

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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. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ A 2014 study examined 191 U.S. George Bush came into the U.S.

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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. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ A 2014 study examined 191 U.S. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. government to implement policies that “ensure long-term American energy leadership and security,” as the American Petroleum Institute wrote in a February 28 letter to the U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Source: US Environmental Protection Agency 2014 In India, which has overtaken China as the world’s fastest growing large economy, coal is the main fuel, generating three quarters of electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

Nor are they forcibly held back by legal segregation or Jim Crow laws. The “moral case” framing has also been employed by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch to promote capitalism, before Epstein used the same phrasing in his 2014 book about fossil fuels. They are free to work hard, earn money, and succeed, as many do.”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Internal documents from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. Russia points to a 2014 Western-inspired coup in Ukraine and legitimate grievances of Russian-speakers in the breakaway Donbass republics. The West accuses Russia of interference in Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. BLM spokesperson Jillian Aragon declined interview requests for this article, saying that the agency isn’t commenting on pending policies while management in Washington, D.C.,

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

To turn her love of nature from a hobby into a career, Adams joined MetLife as a sustainability intern in 2014. environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . In that spirit, Fragos helps guide some of Canada’s largest, most impactful organizations toward their sustainability and ESG objectives. LinkedIn

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Even as standards have tightened over time, the actual sales-adjusted fuel economy rating of new vehicles has been unchanged at around 25 miles per gallon since 2014,” the Wall Street Journal reported in January. “No No wonder U.S. vehicles are among the least efficient globally.”. mile-per-gallon gain to 25.4 MPG, “a record high.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 2019 law provided bailouts for two former FirstEnergy nuclear plants and two 1950s-era coal plants and revenue guarantees for utilities while gutting Ohio’s previously weakened renewable energy and energy efficiency standards. Gerrymandering affects all policies, including healthcare, energy, clean water, transit and education, she said.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. In May 2014, the PUC sought changes that would require energy companies to identify and address all potential failure points, including any effects of “weather design limits.”. Luminant argued against the proposal.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In September 2014, Hoyle received a $5,000 donation from Don Althoff, the CEO of Veresen, the previous owner of Jordan Cove before Pembina took over the company. She has the backing of the local chapters of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate justice organization, as well as other progressive groups in the state.

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