GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The request comes from nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice on behalf of demand response aggregator Voltus. But a string of court cases has since cemented that authority, including the 2016 U.S. FERC’s authority was strengthened by this summer’s decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. Originally published on ILSR.org. The legislation includes strategies to make solar energy more accessible to low and moderate income communities through community solar projects, rooftop solar, and brownfield solar.

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GreenBiz

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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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 7, 2019

Thanks to a bill Governor Baker signed into law in 2016, Massachusetts is authorized to procure up to 1600MW of offshore wind energy through public solicitation. The successful “83C” procurement held in 2017 resulted in the award of a long-term contract to our client Vineyard Wind for an 800MW project, now underway.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The Innovation Award for the fellow who recommends the most creative approach to reducing a host organization’s emissions or an innovative solution for overcoming barriers. Radhika also manages a global coalition of over 30 leading organizations to spur innovation in the air conditioning industry through the Global Cooling Prize.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

In 2016, the California Penal Code § 653o went into effect, banning the sale and import of athletic shoes made from kangaroo leather, or k-leather. I’ve ordered pairs of Tiempo Legend 8 Elite to see if Nike was following the law,” Ferber said. CHE and other organizations are now collaborating to end the use of kangaroo leather.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Organic straws, food containers made from bamboo, banana leaves used to package fresh produce, and reusable shopping bags. Thailand earned US57.5

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.” Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Des Moines Citizens Task Force on Sustainability.

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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. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival. Few of the posts flagged that they were paid adverts (something that wasn’t required under Indian law until this year ), though they all used a similar format and included Shell corporate hashtags. million views.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Telles was joined on the stage by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, who served as an environment minister under Bolsonaro, and Antônio Cabrera, a former agriculture minister, known as a critic of laws protecting Indigenous territories from conversion into livestock ranches. trillion in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. “When I first read the letter, I nearly cried.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents. A 2016 law requires the state air resources board to implement a strategy to reduce these emissions by 40 percent from 2013 levels by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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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.”.

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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.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In 2016 Coco founded Athena Alliance, a digital platform for learning and agency for the top women in business striving for the c-suite and the boardroom. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. from Brooklyn Law School. Louis and a B.A.

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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. But in reality, this will remain challenging.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The first amendment places a price cap on all LCFS credit transfers at $200 in 2016 US dollars, adjusted for inflation. CARB received several comments from organizations representing traditional and low-carbon fuel producers. The amendments include six key changes to the LCFS program: Maximum Tradable Price for LCFS Credits.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The first amendment places a price cap on all LCFS credit transfers at $200 in 2016 US dollars, adjusted for inflation. CARB received several comments from organizations representing traditional and low-carbon fuel producers. The amendments include six key changes to the LCFS program: Maximum Tradable Price for LCFS Credits.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, which covers much of the Midwest, joined local organizers in a conference call in July and made an in-person visit to the area earlier this month. The situation at the Ohio facility appears so severe that top officials from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Finley, who is based in Dorset, UK, but has been the Cook Islands’ ambassador to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2006, has been praised for his contributions to the agency by its Secretary-General. as well as her retainer. Finley’s address is the same as that given on the IPTA’s website.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Credit: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2016. While it is a federal law, it gives states leeway to apply for “primacy,” which is the ability for states to govern their own injection wells.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This dataset mapped the density of green roof and wall infrastructure across New York City in 2016. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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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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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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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Brausch for The Verge The effort to climate-proof our housing is running into a mess of problems, including aging housing stock, out-of-date zoning laws, and NIMBY-ism. There’s also the issue of zoning laws across the country. Illustration by Nico H. Can we build our way to a better future?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

From 2016 to 2019, the plant pumped an average of over 22 million pounds of sulfur dioxide, which can cause lung disease, coughing, and eye irritation, into the air each year. The Koch Family Foundations , which are linked primarily to Charles and David, have spent more than ExxonMobil in that effort, DeSmog’s database shows. .

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In practice, it means a rotating cast of environmental experts will act as a proxy for Nature on the company board, where they will be legally bound to speak on behalf of the natural world, in a manner similar to how a guardian acts on behalf of a child in a court of law. From there, the notion of what was possible became clear," says Rose.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing firm, and fossil fuel companies with plans to get into the hydrogen and carbon capture markets are poised to benefit from billions of dollars in funding and tax credits earmarked to support climate initiatives in both the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

For years , the fossil fuel industry has maintained that the First Amendment protects its right to mislead the public about the climate crisis, but that criticism and protest of its operations violates the law. And Gibson Dunn increasingly seems to be the law firm the industry is looking to for help in these efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. May 1, 2019.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California’s right-to-repair law. At a recent White House event, Apple even pledged to honor California’s new law nationwide. That said, these laws have some key limitations. Illustration by Nico H.

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