DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. This is a meritless case, and we await the court’s decision,” said Nick Paulocci, director of public affairs and press secretary of the NYC Law Department.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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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. environmental goals. Sign up today.].

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Since 2015, Jones has been on the Board of Directors of the Macdonald Laurier Institute , a Canadian libertarian think tank that’s also received funding from the Charles G. She’s succeeding as head of the Business Council Greg D’Avignon, who spent 12 years with the organization. Last year, D’Avignon met with B.C.’s government.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

His group has been trying ever since to get Denka Corporation, which bought the plant from DuPont in 2015, to limit emissions. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action. The Exide plant was shut down in 2015 by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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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 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Greg Gianforte signed it into law on March 16. Gunderson claimed that the repeal was intended to “[follow] the governor’s red tape reduction plan in that it removes a bloated bag of air that only takes up space” in state law. “It Steve Gunderson introduced legislation to repeal the state energy policy. Republican Gov.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. We must ask ourselves – does hydrogen have a wider future? Accelerating hydrogen activity.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

billion hectares in 2015. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Humans are using more land. C) per decade.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. degrees Celsius.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

billion hectares in 2015. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Humans are using more land. C) per decade.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." The study analysed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

His influence can bee seen in Trump's unrelenting altercations with the law. This is a man who as president uses the vernacular of organized crime, calling people who tell the truth "rats". Cohen said he broke the law at the direction of president Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. Energy efficiency is the largest employer in the U.S. energy sector, employing nearly 2.4 an hour last year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A recent analysis from the World Benchmarking Alliance, a nonprofit organization that assesses how well corporations are working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, found a “dangerous lack of progress” from the oil and gas sector towards preventing global warming from exceeding 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 30, 2020

Private organizations and state governments have successfully leveraged the courts to check the Trump administration's anti-environment, pro-fossil fuel agenda. The ruling stops the Trump administration's attempt to gut a key part of the BLM’s 2015 sage grouse and protects more than a million acres of habitat.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. It’s a living, integral part of your business that needs room to grow organically, adjust flexibly, and evolve to your company’s changing needs. Risk Management. Returns on Capital.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit. “As That’s why we have decided to [bring] the first Italian climate lawsuit.”. Que va changer cette décision ?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

in 2015, the progress is slow. Our organization is inclusive and events are open to people of all genders. From 2006 to 2015, Veena managed the relationships with a wide portfolio of Ceres Company Network members, including the financial services sector and the electric power sector. Before that, Veena practiced law in India.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At a meeting in September 2015 at the courthouse in Doddridge County, West Virginia, Conrad Baston, the general manager of civil engineering with Antero, suggested salt produced during the waste treatment process could be called, “Taste of the Marcellus,” after the gas-rich geologic formation from which it came.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that Landry advised his employees in an email that they could use state laws to claim either a religious or philosophical objection to the mask mandate for students — and to a vaccine if one is required. Crowd at a ‘Freedom Rally’ in Mandeville, Louisiana, on August 14 organized by the St.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Foster organic farming. According to the Ministry of Health, Costa Rica’s recycling rate has increased by 469% between 2015 to 2017. The Costa Rican government has prioritized sustainability through the enactment of green policies and laws. Government policies were framed under the following axes: Establish national parks.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

The Railroad Commission needs to enforce better practices upfront so that we can avoid the bankruptcy process and the orphan law process altogether.”. Her organization hopes to push the RRC toward policies that better protect taxpayers and the environment. The RRC did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The open letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Clean Creatives campaign, comes just days before the annual UN climate talks (COP27) open in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Egypt, as this year’s host country for the summit, has hired Hill+Knowlton Strategies to help organize the event and lead on global communications.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

This is why it’s more important than ever to have partners and organizations like Greentown Labs, whose mission is to solve the climate crisis through entrepreneurship and collaboration. We are proud to welcome this organization to our City and look forward to the continued partnership.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

Combined, the six CEOs lead organizations that have poured over $1 trillion in financing into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, based on the numbers tallied in a 2021 report from Rainforest Action Network and other environmental advocates.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States “provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it.” Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States “provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it.” Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors?

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