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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The MEPs invited were spoiled for choice, as BASF generously delivered six small bottles of fine wines for their enjoyment.

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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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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

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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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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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. You may also recognize Gibson Dunn as the firm that accused U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Key California solar policies that helped drive the adoption of the technology are expected to sunset in the next few years, and uncertainty looms over whether the federal government will renew the 30 percent solar Investment Tax Credit for residential consumers, which is slated to expire at the end of 2016.

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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. April 5, 2019.

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Vote Solar

JUNE 29, 2017

Was this how the sunny promise of clean energy and consumer choice ends, with utilities exercising political muscle to preserve incumbency, and crush competition? Energy advocates organizations?—?including Voters then organized a ballot initiative to give all ratepayers the same choice to bypass the utility and buy renewable energy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. As Secretary of the Interior, Haaland acknowledges that the role primarily consists of following the law and directives from the White House, not making them. "I Policy & Politics. Social Justice. Equity & Inclusion.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Figure 1 summarizes these insights as suggestions for wind planning processes, organized by theme. offshore wind project, commencing operation in 2016. Source: Elmallah and Rand, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. In 2016, she helped defeat Arch Coal’s plans to build a massive strip mining operation on the reservation’s border. Advocacy organizations are also tackling the issue. Credit: Protect the Protest .

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Greta gained public attention after organizing a one-person strike at her school to demand climate justice. The Reluctant Radical questions the law and what society deems as right and wrong.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws.

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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. Banks Talk Transition, Retain Ties to Fossil Fuel Firms.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. ” As Secretary of the Interior, Haaland acknowledges that the role primarily consists of following the law and directives from the White House, not making them.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

19 February 2016. Laws and governance around RECs should be kept as simple and straightforward as possible to avoid becoming a barrier to entry into such communities. As RECs continue to grow in number and size, they will have greater political power. Source: Simuove, Wikimedia Commons.

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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. Hayek told Fisher to forget about getting into politics and to engage instead in a “war of ideas.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. We can present the data, but what you do with the data is ultimately a political decision,” he says.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” You’ve got to have ownership.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. Artemisa Xakriabá is an Indigenous climate organizer and activist from In Brasilia, Brazil.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law. In California, when lawmakers passed the cap and trade law, they bartered away more direct regulations on sooty smokestacks. Jerry Brown (left), which stripped away local air pollution laws.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. Over the following two and a half decades, scientists continued to collect data on climate change at the same time that governments worldwide argued over the economic and political implications of taking action to counter its effects.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 24, 2020

Because tigers in the United States are regulated by a combination of federal, state and local laws, there is no single government agency monitoring the location, ownership or sales of the tigers or what happens to their parts when they die. Surprisingly, only an estimated 6% of the captive tiger population in the U.S.

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Unsustainable

MAY 7, 2020

Previously, between 2016-2018, the number of billion-dollar weather events in each of those years was more than double the long-term average. However, it will fall on the people to elect a Congress that will legislate a green economy, and convince a president to sign it into law. These farm inputs are all fossil fuel-derived.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

Nor are they forcibly held back by legal segregation or Jim Crow laws. In general political correctness prevents us from having honest debates.”. A 2016 reddit exchange by Alex Epstein on Black Lives Matter. While blacks in the pre-Civil War period were shackled by slavery, blacks today are not. It should be.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

Upon Trump’s election in 2016, automakers were eager to see the standards watered down , but there’s a sense in the industry that the radical rollback the administration has delivered is more than they bargained for (or perhaps they were simply surprised at the strength of the support for the previous standards). “One

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

Without political relief, projects could get canceled outright, industry figures say — and relief in Washington, D.C. Developers that qualified wind projects for the full federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) back in 2016 are supposed to finish construction this year. Investors are nervous. looks anything but certain.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Between 2016 and 2021, the Texas legislature slashed the TCEQ’s funding by 20 percent, even as it increased the state budget by 16 percent.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

Other analyses, including by Buchanan’s organization, show customers have paid far more than market rates for power, in addition to debt payments. And without carbon emissions, it might not need to close under an Illinois energy law. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, both Democrats, and Republican Reps.

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