EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some might think a Supreme Court case about the Clean Power Plan – a 2015 rule that never went into effect – is of little concern to American businesses. Across the economy, companies are setting ambitious goals to cut climate pollution and transition to clean energy. In early 2022, the Supreme Court will hear West Virginia v.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The group said in 2015 that “policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades”. It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. Climate action is a legal duty!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Image Credit: SkyTruth. Potentially Lethal Levels’.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. A 2021 report by the Business and Human Rights Resource Center found that between January 2015 and May 2021, business actors brought 355 SLAPPs globally against human rights and environmental activists and groups. While the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution? View on DocumentCloud.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. Employment is a part of a holistic solution to our mission of improving community environmental health and Just Transition. .” – Jill Mangaliman, Executive Director of Got Green.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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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

MAY 26, 2021

Enormous sums of taxpayer money and money meant for public schools, along with the long-term health of our lands, are on the line.”. shale industry has burned through hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, and there have been more than 250 bankruptcies of North American oil and gas companies since 2015. “That’s $8.1 Credit: BLM. (CC

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Decades later, Hill’s PR firm was even a named defendant in many of the lawsuits that sprang up against tobacco companies for their efforts to downplay smoking’s health impacts. Credit: Oil and Gas Climate Initiative. Hill+Knowlton continues to represent fossil fuel clients to this day.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The report directs the agency to review its rules, as required by the Clean Air Act, for both of these carcinogenic air pollutants, which newer scientific evidence has found raise the cancer risk for people living near facilities emitting them. John the Baptist Parish — has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Related: This “super plant” can actually absorb air pollution Past scandals Let’s time travel back to the “diesel dupe” of 2015. But post-exam, it cranked up and spewed up to 40 times above the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants allowed by U.S. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. xii] [xiii].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It comes amidst a growing public campaign in protest at the practice of wastewater plants releasing sewage into waterways in the wake of heavy rains, which saw the government accused of failing to adequately tackle dangerous levels of pollution. Over 2,000 sewage treatment works are involved in the investgation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG; Houston. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. The central axis of Costa Rica’s decarbonization plan is to maintain an upward curve of economic growth and, at the same time, generate a slowdown in the use of polluting fossil fuels. Promote ecotourism. Foster organic farming. million per year.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Covid-19 has been a terrible blow to public health, and the economy, but the emergency of climate damage is worse. Air pollution kills 40,000 in the UK each year. The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. It just needs people in Parliament to enact it.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 15% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025, 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050. Federal law requires weighing the options.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

The quick-fire departures of former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have left a gaping hole at the heart of his government – which the PM has been quick to plaster over with some rapid Cabinet appointments. Steve Barclay (Health Secretary, Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. Between 2015 and 2020, U.S. By Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams. oil and gas production.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Clean energy jobs are also more likely than others in the private sector to come with health care and retirement benefits. From 2009-2015, smart policies created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the stimulus program launched after the Great Recession, helped clean energy drive national economic recovery.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. In 2007, when North Carolina passed a law requiring electric companies to help customers reduce their energy use, gas and electric utilities reached an agreement on the contours of those demand-side programs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. But the pollution caused by burning marine fuels are directly linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. These emissions are a bigger problem than you might think.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. You know, you talk often about how Conservatives cut taxes for the wealthy and cut education and health care and other services. You criticize Mr. Harper on the fact that he cut health care funding; you also cut them.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 million tons of freight valued at US$1.7

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 million tons of freight valued at US$1.7

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