AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children “dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up.” It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It None of them attend school.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

As part of its “pigs are more climate-friendly than you think” campaign, Danish Crown quoted a study from Aarhus University, claiming that one kilo of Danish pork produced only 2.8kg of carbon dioxide-equivalent in 2016, down from 3.8kg eight years before. Jan Dutkiewicz, Policy Fellow, Harvard Law School.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In theory, anyone installing a new solar array on their rooftop or elsewhere earns tax credits for a portion of their investment. Felix Mormann , Professor of Law, Texas A&M University. But by focusing on utilities, the program threatens to alienate non-utility generators and stifle competition. Like what you’ve read?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2015

She believes that solar customers need a diverse array of solar installers — both large and small — to choose from in order to keep the industry healthy, which might help explain why Luminalt has continued to see a rise in revenues. Luminalt has 23 employees. Cotter doesn’t let the sheer size of companies like SolarCity shake her.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The United States just enacted $500 billion clean energy industrial strategy investments within historic legislation (the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and Infrastructure Law) that will cut emissions by one gigaton in a decade. At 2016 prices, this would save around £6 billion per year.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

19 February 2016. As van Brommel & Höffken, as well as Hoicka and colleagues , emphasize, policy must embrace a broad array of REC models in order to meet each community’s individual context while ensuring that REC structures aren’t coopted by corporate players seeking to take advantage of REC’s commercial potential.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Bitcoin has had the same old array of tailwinds in its sails throughout its latest bull run. For perspective, in 2016 the United Kingdom used 304 terawatt hours in whole. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2021

The gathering aims to rekindle the spirit and energy of the 2016 Dakota Access pipeline protests , led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a broad swathe of Native and non-Native allies, where thousands of people gathered in North Dakota for several months in the latter half of 2016.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Under federal law, agencies are required to conduct tribal consultation on projects and plans like this one. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

In fact, the spate of whale strandings began in January 2016, before most survey activity for ocean turbines had even begun. A report from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law identified nearly 230 local measures across 35 states that have been enacted to restrict renewable energy development.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

November, 2016. Years later, all four holdouts changed their position and announced their support for UNDRIP, but the support has been mostly rhetorical, lacking the force of law at the national level. Oceti Sakowin Camp, November, 2016. Oceti Sakowin Camp, protest against Dakota Access pipeline. Credit: Becker1999. (CC

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. But the law also gives “big amounts of discretion” to the state’s Utilities Commission, and their plan remains unclear.

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