DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought. Climate-washing frames climate litigation in a new way, and it may be useful to keep polluters in check in relation to climate goals. We will argue the central bank’s purchase of bonds from big polluters is illegal.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

This former plantation land’s modern nicknames are Cancer Alley and Death Alley because of the pollution-induced illness rife in the riverside communities. This is some of America’s most polluted air, with eight major industrial plants in 103 square miles and a new, enormous plastic project on the horizon. While only 13% of the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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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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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Just over 800 cases were filed between 1986 and 2014, but more than 1,000 have been brought before the courts since then. Law and disorder. In the United States, the lack of clear, overarching climate laws has contributed to some cases. Tarantino, a partner in the San Francisco-based law firm Morrison Foerster, explained.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties. This place has been a catastrophe consistently.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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. In 1999, she sponsored a law that set up the first network of marine reserves in the country and served as the model for presidents Clinton and Bush to expand federal reserves.

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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. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

IFC) launched the first sustainability-linked SCF facility in 2014 for Levi Strauss & Co. The SLCP is something of a one-stop shop for data on the working conditions at supplier facilities, providing information on compliance with local laws and international standards among other data points. Adding ESG to the mix.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Between 2014 and 2018, transportation emissions rose by 3%, the report said. Activists met the news with incredulity. metric tons. rise in emissions from natural gas.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

We see particularly strong opportunities in increasing the affordability and availability of new mobility options for residents in low- to moderate-income communities, who often have the longest commutes and suffer the most from pollution. Make the state carbon neutral by 2045 , per House Bill 2182 , signed into law in June, 2018.

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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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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. Just over a third of rivers around the world remain free flowing, according to a Nature study.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

1’s directors for voting against two recent proposals to set greenhouse gas targets that would account for the pollution caused by the fossil fuels ExxonMobil sells, and to produce a report on low-carbon business plans. Sharfman, of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. The report faults Engine No. Engine No.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores. At least a million seabirds are killed annually by plastic pollution, while estimates suggest there are around 270,000 metric tonnes of plastic now clogging the world's ocean.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. Chamber of Commerce and have been frequent violators of state and federal laws. Credit: USFWS. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. London (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. ESG’s influence isn’t just limited to investors or Wall Street.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. Though it is hard to link the exact source of the particulate matter and NOx emissions - cars and other industries also pollute - it is a fact that outdoor air pollution is a major cause of death and disease globally.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

Pollution 28

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 11, 2021

As the Wall Street Journal reported in 2019, “Two-thirds of projections made by the fracking companies between 2014 and 2017 in America’s four hottest drilling regions appear to have been overly optimistic.” Indeed, the shale industry has lost hundreds of billions of dollars.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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Grist

MAY 26, 2021

Aaron Mintzes, a senior policy council at the environmental nonprofit Earthworks, believes that there is “potential” to source minerals like rare earths from coal waste because there are already robust laws and policies in place to support its cleanup, including a requirement that the polluter pays a fee into a mine reclamation fund.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”. Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog. “By Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (middle) and B.C.

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Grist

JULY 29, 2020

While RGGI is designed to reduce CO2 emissions, it inevitably leads to reductions in other pollutants from power plants, like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline A northeast law limited carbon emissions. It also helped kids breathe. on Jul 29, 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” An unnamed White House official told Bloomberg Law that the approach in the CEQ report remains open to modifications. “It

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

MAG “ fiercely opposes ” next month’s expansion of London’s flagship anti-pollution measure, the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ), and claims to have played a “key” role in April’s anti-ULEZ demonstrations held in central London.

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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. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. We’re paying to clean up their pollution.”. Article continues below. More in this series. And that’s what’s happened.

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