GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The largest behind-the-meter battery title previously went to Convergent Energy + Power for 10-megawatt systems to help industrial companies dodge demand charges in Ontario, Canada. ” Data centers have a generally flat demand profile, which influenced the choice to add a battery to the solar facility.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The new goals are a significant step up for the domestic appliance maker, which just last summer pledged to halve emissions from its plants and operations by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Whirlpool has also pledged to enhance its environmental footprint by curbing plastic pollution and extending the life of its products.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 10, 2020

The opinion marks what’s likely to be the final chapter in a long-running battle between FERC and energy storage and distributed energy advocates on one hand, and utilities and state regulators on the other, Jennifer Key, a partner of the Steptoe & Johnson law firm in Washington D.C., In early 2016, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law. And activists are organizing mass protests or days of action demanding an end to fossil fuel finance. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. The study shows Carbon emissions fell by around seven per cent last year compared to 2019 as a result of worldwide lockdown measures and a huge decline in industrial activity and energy demand, amounting to a cut of around 2.6 billion tonnes of CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING has doled out nearly $3 billion in financing to LNG since 2016, according to a 2023 report from Rainforest Action Network and partners.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Oil giants have even attempted to use laws intended to protect public participation in their own defense. Using anti-SLAPP laws, ExxonMobil has filed a number of unsuccessful motions against some of the U.S. While the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There is scope for more demand from tech firms in the future too, as Google’s deal with GE demonstrates. Cisco estimates annual average growth in Western European data centers of 17% from 2016 to 2021; it expects the lion’s share to be built in Scandinavia.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government needs to dramatically step up efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, and trading or investing in commodities that drive deforestation should be made illegal, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have demanded today. Biodiversity has a major role to play in helping to achieve net zero emissions," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

It comes as residents prepare to head to the polls tomorrow to vote for London’s next Mayor, in the first mayoral election to take place since 2016 after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A coroner is now calling for national limits on air pollution to match World Health Organisation guidelines and made enforceable by law.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Government officials sometimes assert homeowners have little interest in retreat, but instances exist when far more homeowners have requested assistance relocating than the budget allows (Koslov 2016). 2016) The case for retreat. When storms hit, higher seas push floodwaters further inland.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The report calculates that investments of $759bn through to 2050 could result in global demand for petrochemicals being met with almost no associated carbon emissions. But under a net zero emissions scenario, refineries start to be retired from 2030 as demand for transport fuels peaks as drivers switch to electric vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

From there, the materials may wend through a maze of intermediaries: collectors; brokers; distributors; processors; and an assortment of others who ultimately transform them into whatever specifications the market demands. None of them attend school. It can be equally complicated for consumers.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. In addition to these practical outcomes, the event demonstrated just how much can be achieved when people come together and demand action.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Given its de facto status as a sustainable industry, shareholders are more likely to demand transparency and accountability beyond that mandated by laws such as the U.K. In theory, the renewable energy industry is in a strong position to address such concerns. Modern Slavery Act.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A recent WWF and RSPB report found that between 2016 and 2018, an area of 21.3 million hectares of land was required to supply UK demand for just seven commodities; including beef, cocoa, soy and paper. That is equivalent to 88 per cent of the UK's total land area. This destruction is hidden in plain sight.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. The history.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

M: The idea started in 2016, when we foresaw congestion due to high levels of renewables coming onto the grid. Laws and policies regarding energy markets are not the same in every country and so a product like this wouldn’t necessarily be accessible across borders. Can you tell me more? Ron van den Berg.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Kill Zone” The first time Mayfield and many other Chester residents heard of Penn America Energy’s plans was in June 2022, when the regional public media organization WHYY revealed that the company had been shopping around plans to build an LNG terminal on Chester’s Delaware River waterfront since as early as 2016. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lawyers from environmental law NGO ClientEarth have this morning accused 17 major global banks of "hypocrisy" as they wrote to the financial institutions to ask them how they squared their climate commitments with support for the firms gearing up to extract tens of millions of barrels of oil from the North Sea.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

And over the last decade serious demands have been made of us to deal with the problem of plastic waste. At the current rate, there will be four times as much plastic in the ocean by 2040 as in 2016. Consumer goods companies - including Unilever - are big users of plastic. The problem is actually getting worse.

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Vote Solar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Massachusetts lawmakers voted this summer that non-coincident peak demand chargers are inappropriate for solar customers, overturning the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approval of Eversource’s proposal for the new charges last year. In 2016, the Legislature passed an energy bill that included a provision for an MMRC.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

On April 4, Concerned Ohio River Residents held a press event in Martins Ferry and demanded that state officials issue orders to immediately stop work at the Austin Master facility due to public health and environmental concerns. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests. “We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

On top of that, California’s recurring drought problems, agricultural demand for irrigation, and the risks of fertilizer runoff make the state a target-rich environment to deploy our place-based approach to water innovation. Make the state carbon neutral by 2045 , per House Bill 2182 , signed into law in June, 2018.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. It follows a 2016 law passed in France requiring all supermarkets to donate unsold food to organisations redistributing it to people in need, rather than throwing it away. EU Parliament urged to adopt 'sustainability charge' on meat.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The same day the inspector general released its report, the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, working on behalf of Taylor’s group, filed a petition calling on the EPA to force the Denka plant to immediately reduce toxic air emissions and require fenceline air monitoring for chloroprene and ethylene oxide. On December 13, 2016 at a St.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

They were the first to get the go-ahead after Maine increased its renewable portfolio standard to 80 percent by 2030 in a suite of climate and clean energy laws signed last year. The legislation also reinstated net-metering, a change from the gross metering policy established in 2016 under previous Governor Paul LePage.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Over five years between 2016 and 2021, major banks including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Barclays, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and ING Group collectively invested almost €22bn in the two petrochemicals giants, despite fears that an already saturated plastics market could soon face curbed demand and stricter regulations, according to the report.

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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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