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”). The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 4, 2008, pp.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 1990 he founded the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP) that expounded these views. In 2014 DeSmog revealed that Singer received $5,000 a month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute , which has taken donations from oil interests including ExxonMobil and the Koch family. “The

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Scottish Greens, a fully independent political party from the Green Party of England and Wales, has seen its membership soar since backing independence for Scotland in the 2014 referendum, and joining the government in Holyrood would increase the chance of another referendum on the issue.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Cast your mind back to 2014. 2014 was also the year of peak frack - the year that Westminster went mad for fracking and all it could bring to the UK energy system. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014. A different time.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Kennedy, the veteran of California politics and energy policy who founded the company in 2014, handed off the CEO role last week after five years at the helm. AMS, the commercial energy storage pioneer turned software company , has changed its leadership. Lingering development. Deployments are about two-thirds complete.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that at first glance may not seem like a space for personal action: policy. should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. Stinnett worked for over a decade as a political campaign adviser in the early 2000s.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, has said that political leadership was “missing” in the pursuit of net zero. In 2014 he claimed that efforts to limit global warming “would have no effect for hundreds or possibly a thousand years” and in 2013 he blamed high energy prices on “climate alarmism.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The update from the ONS comes amidst a growing political debate over how to accelerate the development of the UK's green economy at a time when both the US and EU are announcing ambitious new programmes to stimulate investment in clean tech manufacturing and infrastructure. UK GDP growth in 2021 hit 7.5

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. per cent, surpassing 2019 levels and approaching the all-time peak seen in 2014. This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Koch Industries may be best known to clean energy and environmental advocates as the oil and gas, chemicals and paper giant led by Charles Koch, who with his now-deceased brother David Koch funded a network of groups promoting conservative and libertarian public policies. The Santa Clara, Calif.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the 2010 Budget , it was further announced that fuel duty would rise by one pence per litre above indexation in April 2014. Giving a clear steer as to the long-term direction of travel is a key principle for policy-makers in effectively using taxes to change behaviour. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Isn’t it true that RGGI GHG reduction stalled during the Great Recession because need for energy declined and there was no political will to reduce the cap which would have been necessary to reduce emissions? A design review in 2012 led to a 45% reduction in the 2014 cap (from 165 million tons to 91 million tons). Shorter answer.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. While a well-designed approach to reducing emissions would include other complementary policies such as regulations in some sectors and support for low-carbon research and development, carbon pricing should ideally be the centrepiece of the effort.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It stresses the government's climate leadership is undermined by its poor export finance record, highlighting that between 2013/2014 and 2019/2020 UKEF has provided £6bn in finance to oil and gas projects, compared to just £500m for the clean energy sector.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. In February she defended British electricity and gas supplier Centrica – where she worked as “senior originator” from 2014 to 2016 – against what she called “unfair” criticism over its record profits.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

But that support for new land-based wind and solar projects is even politically possible now is a big victory for the sector. energy policy. Former Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2014 that the public had “had enough” of onshore wind before backing nuclear power and fracking as the keys to U.K. energy security.

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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. "The

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought. But it also reflects a deeper evolution in the politics of climate change and in the attitude of activists, social scientists, media professionals, and lawyers. In the past six years alone, more than 1,000 cases have hit courts.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 27, 2021

According to a survey last year , 80% of Asian Americans consider the environment to be a very or extremely important political issue; 77% support stronger federal legislation to address the climate crisis. average of 41%. So why is it that we don’t see AAPIs represented in the environmental movement?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. Yet several appear to be exploiting fears over energy prices to push climate “delay” narratives that blame net zero policies for the cost of living crisis. Others have failed to mention climate at all. Foreign Secretary.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". What public policies are needed?

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Although emissions are rising more slowly than they have in previous years, humanity has lost precious time to drive down climate pollution, and even with the most ambitious policies, there is now only a 38 percent chance that the world will stave off a 1.5-degree degree C rise in temperature.

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Mosaic

AUGUST 1, 2023

In his new role as Executive Chair, Parish will focus on strategy, major partnerships and policy work to advance Mosaic’s vision of 100% clean energy for all and accelerate the growth of residential clean energy solutions. ” Parish co-founded Mosaic in 2010 as a crowdfunding platform for community-scale solar projects.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. Avoid the politics if possible The message to governments is that carbon pricing almost certainly works, and typically, to great effect. percentage points in the sectors it covers. It was working as designed.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

In our Accelerated Energy Transition, we state that global carbon prices of around $40/ton CO2e are in the zone of what’s politically palatable. Thermal coal has been under threat from lower utilization, local policies and decreased funding for some time — coal demand already peaked, around 2014.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

A 2014 study found that of a global sample of 180 nuclear power plants, 97 percent ended up over budget. The union Unite is receptive to a RAB framework but began its own response by saying it "favors a policy of state ownership of the energy sector.” “To date, the investor pool for new U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

It is also active in political lobbying, spending a total of $17.5 Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Earlier this year, Tice claimed “there is no climate crisis”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

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. 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. But it takes partnership, it takes creating a vision and it takes consistency of just showing up and doing the work." That's b t."

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

One group will continue to push for a dilution of climate policies and a revival of fracking, as they seek to erroneously blame the net zero strategy for the cost-of-living crisis. BusinessGreen takes a look at the candidates track records, policy plans, and teams to try and ascertain who might be best for the UK's environmental efforts.

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