GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. The policy seeks to update the existing paradigm to compensate rooftop solar production in a way that is sustainable for all ratepayers.

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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”). Springer, 2014. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary For Policy Makers.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN meanwhile is trying to bring a separate judicial review against the DfT for refusing to review its 2014 National Policy Statement for National Networks, which sets the rules by which road schemes should be designed and evaluated. The DfT would not comment on the ongoing legal case regarding RIS2.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Governments often use selective law enforcement to blunt the effects of unwanted policies instituted by previous administrations. TIGTA says that, of the 239,422 EV tax credits claimed between 2014 and 2018, it has identified 16,510 as potentially erroneous. Is this what’s going on with an audit of federal EV tax credit claims?

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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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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Urgent action is needed, the report notes, because "little progress has been made" to stop international supply chains driving the destruction of nature, despite a raft of high-profile commitments from governments and businesses over the last decade, including the New York Declaration on Forests in 2014 and the Amsterdam Declarations in 2015.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Co-op Group, Tesco, Morrisons, and M&S all back letter to Prime Minister urging him to overhaul clean power policies that are hampering the development of community-scale renewables projects. The sector doubled in size every year between 2014 and 2017 when there was, albeit reducing, government support.

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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. Massachusetts.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought. The report argues that the goals of claimants in strategic cases include creating public awareness and encouraging public debate, changing the behaviors of government and industry players, and advancing climate policies.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

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. While energy imbalance markets have brought benefits to the Western 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. That plan was reversed after Ohio lawmakers passed House Bill 6 , the state’s nuclear bailout law.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Perhaps the most famous learning curve—later dubbed “Moore’s Law”—was identified in 1965 by Intel’s Gordon Moore, who accurately predicted that the number of transistors within a semiconductor would double every two years as producers gained more experience. Strong, consistent policy incentives targeted battery-electric vehicles.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Why you ignore policy at your peril! She is founder of close the gap CA , a campaign to recruit progressive women to run for open seats in 2014 and 2016 in the California state legislature. Manal Yamout is Vice President of Policy at Advanced Microgrid Solutions. California legislation affecting renewable energy .

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2014, Minneapolis used the expiration of its franchise agreement with Xcel Energy to press the utility on clean energy. Cities have inherent clout because of the sheer size of their loads, said Jay Orfield, who directs strategy and policy for the American Cities Climate Challenge. They often are among a utility’s largest customers.

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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. But the recovery in activity in the second half of 2020 and “a lack of clean energy policies” caused emissions to rise a further 2 per cent year on year in December.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2014 and 2018, regulations for DPFs have been updated as we uncovered more about their impact on dangerous emissions, but their effectiveness has been minimal as vehicles can typically pass the current MOT smoke test without DPFs and a visual test to check the existence of a filter is not fit for purpose. Update the law to save lives.

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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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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. Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico.

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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.". 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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The new year promises substantial runway ahead, as state, federal, and international policies continue to emerge with the specific intention to drive capital into environmentally sustainable investments. Before joining Energy Capital Partners in 2014, Ms. in Politics Philosophy and Law and a B.S. Marisa has a B.A

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Under current laws, the environmental impacts of e-waste should be relatively low. Apple is a leading global advocate for policies that combat climate change and environmental harm, including those that promote a transition to a circular economy," the company said in a statement. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

An area of tropical rainforest greater than the size of the Netherlands was lost every year on average between 2014 and 2018, according to a progress report last year on the New York Declaration of Forests - an initiative through which 200 organisations last year pledged to end deforestation by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Western Wire was launched jointly by the oil and gas trade association the Western Energy Alliance and FTI Consulting in 2017 as the “go-to source for news, commentary and analysis on pro-growth, pro-development policies across the West.” . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In 2014, Quebec joined California’s market and several other states and countries have considered or adopted their own versions in recent years.)

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The policy gap. The absence of ambitious and detailed climate policies at a national and international level is contributing to the problem. What the EU policy does is seek to mitigate the effects of rising consumption through tech driven efficiency and the use of renewables. Onsite or offset?

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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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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

As those two states have some of the most ambitious environmental agendas and public policies in the country, some are adopted from existing local and statewide goals and initiatives. By becoming the largest jurisdiction to legally commit to 100% clean energy, it dramatically expands the scope of climate policy possibilities.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Climate Policy: Changes in policy may turn out to be too little, too late, or it may buy us the time we need to switch over to net zero emissions economies in time to spare the world exceptionally catastrophic climate change. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Government promises to enshrine target to achieve 65 per cent recycling rate by 2035 in UK law as it publishes new Circular Economy Plan. Libby Peake, head of resource policy at environmental think tank Green Alliance, applauded the government's decision to maintain the 65 per cent ambition.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

GCL-Poly, one of the companies Horizon cited as showing evidence of using some forced labor, in 2014 unveiled a joint venture with Canadian Solar, a manufacturer that owns developer Recurrent Energy. In January, an Australian Strategic Policy Institute report said those programs “strongly suggest” forced labor.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A technical analysis , commissioned by Earthjustice and conducted by Robert Rossi and Dominic DiGiulio, two research scientists with PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit energy science and policy research institute, documented a long list of problems with both the permitting and due diligence of ODNR regulators overseeing injection wells.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Yves Chouinard, the company's charismatic founder, crusaded for years for the removal of derelict dams to help protect river ecosystems in the US, even producing an award-winning documentary on the topic in 2014. Clearly, England's rivers need all the help they can get.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. Penzer told DeSmog he believes that it is illegal for Checkoff funds to go toward policy work.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why can’t you get an accurate, fact-based online quote for a rooftop solar system, backup battery or electric vehicle charger as easily as getting a quote on, say, a mortgage refinancing or home insurance policy? Utility customers have a right to access this data and share it with whomever they want under state law.

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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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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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