DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Good Law Project has been urging the Charity Commission to launch an investigation into the GWPF, claiming that the charitable foundation funds non-charitable lobbying work by Net Zero Watch.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Greener UK - a coalition of 13 green groups set up in 2016 to campaign for a post-Brexit Britain governed by robust environmental standards and protections - today released its final major assessment of the government's progress since the pivotal EU membership referendum in 2016. In short, it means a green Brexit.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Londoners are calling for their next Mayor to tackle air pollution as a priority, a new pan-European survey has revealed. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And if these funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such as direct action and litigation. 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.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. In 2016, TransCanada — since renamed TC Energy — sued the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A historic 2016 verdict ruled in favor of the Dimock residents and ordered Cabot to pay $4.24 A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts. link] — AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) November 29, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

“It is reassuring to have a court acknowledge our right to hold the Transportation Department accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis,” said 19 year-old plaintiff Kalālapa Winter, whose case is represented by nonprofit law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice. “I United States.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. Concrete Commitments Needed’.

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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. To direct funds toward communities with historical pollution and energy burdens, Illinois Solar for All has developed an EJScreen tool to evaluate local conditions. Originally published on ILSR.org.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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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. John and the Sierra Club.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The government and Ofwat have announced plans to approve 31 schemes proposed by water companies designed to tackle water pollution and increase the country's resilience to drought, amid growing pressure on both the government and the water sector over the country's record on water quality and sewages discharges.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. As climate disasters wreak havoc across the world, increasing numbers of climate-vulnerable communities , individuals, and local governments have been taking the corporations most responsible for climate pollution and deception to court.

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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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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

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

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

is contributing up to five times more plastic pollution to the oceans than previously thought, according to a follow-up study published in Science Advances. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival. million views.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The online event on 4 May, which included a keynote speech from Canada’s Infrastructure and Communities Minister, was organised by the British High Commission in Canada and the Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI) to mark six months to the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These documents show how companies worked to erode public acceptance of climate science over the years — including Exxon corporate reports from the late 1970s, revealed by DeSmog in 2016, which stated “There is no doubt” that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing “problem.”. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

The report directs the agency to review its rules, as required by the Clean Air Act, for both of these carcinogenic air pollutants, which newer scientific evidence has found raise the cancer risk for people living near facilities emitting them. John the Baptist Parish — has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air pollution.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." None of them attend school.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She is founder of close the gap CA , a campaign to recruit progressive women to run for open seats in 2014 and 2016 in the California state legislature. In 1999, she sponsored a law that set up the first network of marine reserves in the country and served as the model for presidents Clinton and Bush to expand federal reserves.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

At the current rate, there will be four times as much plastic in the ocean by 2040 as in 2016. With an ambition to conclude negotiations by the end of 2024, the hard work starts now to put in a place a robust plan to deal with plastic pollution. The problem is actually getting worse. We are making progress with this.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. 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. million dairy cows.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. Effective contracts can provide a legal framework to drive climate action and cut emissions without waiting for policymakers to pass laws.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. The activist is one of two hundred plaintiffs suing Italy for taking insufficient action to fight climate change. Italy’s current climate plan is to reduce emissions by around 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

We see particularly strong opportunities in increasing the affordability and availability of new mobility options for residents in low- to moderate-income communities, who often have the longest commutes and suffer the most from pollution. Make the state carbon neutral by 2045 , per House Bill 2182 , signed into law in June, 2018.

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