GreenTechMedia

APRIL 21, 2020

Among those demands: PG&E must subject itself to enhanced oversight over safety improvements, or face possible state takeover if it fails to prevent future deadly wildfires. 2019 bankruptcy, brought about by billions of dollars in damages from wildfires caused by its equipment in 2017 and 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

The CPUC has established a multistage oversight regime that could lead to the state revoking PG&E’s license and taking it over if it repeatedly violates safety guidelines or causes more disasters; a law giving the state that authority, SB 350, is moving through the California legislature.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. The wording of the law fails to specify who is supposed to fulfill it and what specific action is required.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

According to the grand jury report , Sunoco — which was eventually taken over by Dakota Access builder Energy Transfer — presided over problems from the very beginning of construction in 2017. In one instance, a subcontractor named Laney Directional Drilling was drilling underneath Raystown Lake in central Pennsylvania in 2017.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

(KEITECH), a pioneering corporate social responsibility (CSR) program in Leyte that is focused on capacitating underserved high school graduates toward becoming highly skilled and employable in high-demand industries such as construction, metals and engineering, and tourism and hospitality. MW to 123 MW.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Billions of dollars in incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have spurred the creation of a so-called Battery Belt across the southeastern US, all fuel to fire an anticipated spike in electric vehicle demand. Former Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel launched Redwood in 2017.

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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. John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In fact, it’s one of the largest commercial solar developers in the territory of Pacific Gas & Electric, the Northern California utility now in bankruptcy reorganization under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from deadly wildfires started by its power lines in 2017 and 2018.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). Hino M, Field CB, Mach KJ (2017) Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk. Sweet WV, Horton R, Kopp RE, LeGrande AN, Romanou A (2017) Sea level rise. Communities around the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Department of Energy in President Obama’s second term, working with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from June 2013 through January 2017. Prior to that, Knobloch was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Corporate demand for carbon removal and offsetting will establish forests as a major new asset class that could generate $800bn annually for investors by mid-century, according to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Clifford Rechtschaffen was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Jerry Brown in January 2017. *. The new decision significantly increases the available incentive amounts and expands program eligibility criteria to include projects in Native American communities in California, as defined by federal law.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In its the first update to its sustainability plan since 2017, the UK's largest airport has pledged to reduce carbon from flights by up to 15 per cent by 2030 on a 2019 baseline, and to cut its 'on-the-ground' emissions by at least 45 per cent by the same date. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

First, developers proposed a series of coal train projects in the early 2010s, as domestic coal demand went into decline but was soaring overseas. Longview, Washington, could have been home to Millennium Bulk Terminals, the largest coal export hub in the country, but that project was denied a permit in 2017.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Projects like SOO Green are a quick fix for FERC because they are inter-regional, use existing right-of-way, and meet the renewable energy demand. Due to the even split FERC Commissioners, this revised PJM MOPR became the law. FERC’s 2017 policy stat ement on storage is cited as one of the reasons for MISO’s SATOA filing.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. The report also suggests that energy efficiency, demand response and storage could support reliability so that roughly a quarter of U.S. Those are all-in lifetime costs for a facility divided by its energy production.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The report attributes the increases to greater cold-weather heating demand, but climate activists underscore the state’s lack of progress on building emissions, which are roughly the same as they were a decade ago. 23, has more than 200 participants registered this year, almost five times as many as when it started in 2017, he said.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the capacity factor for existing coal plants fell to 40% last year, down from 53% in 2017. The report also suggests that energy efficiency, demand response and storage could support reliability so that roughly a quarter of U.S. Those are all-in lifetime costs for a facility divided by its energy production.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are a number of bills that were passed by the Colorado legislature in 2021 and signed into law by the Governor that will turn money and initiative towards the development of the industry’s workforce. There are gaps in available programs across the state, which is largely a result of a lack of demand in a region.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, AB 398 authorized the extension of the Program through 2030, instituted certain design changes, and set a new GHG reduction goal of 40 percent by 2030. Adding a price ceiling at which an unlimited number of additional allowances will be sold to satisfy high demand and contain costs.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), with growing demand for beef in particular swallowing up land - sometimes illegally - for grazing and cultivating soy for cattle feed, and often at the expense of tropical forest. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Restore, Restory, Restord, On a dreary wet Brussels day in 2017, I walked from the city hotel over to the COST offices for the inaugural meeting of our COST RESTORE ‘action’. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. March 9th 2021 24 Retweets 34 Likes.

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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. For the next several months, Calder and her colleagues worked closely with suppliers to implement those plans.

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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. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, July 5, 2017 inspection report.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The union has provided White with more than $87,000 in donations since 2017, according to campaign finance data from Transparency USA. even as EU demand for the fuel declines. The task force’s members include the Pennsylvania director of the American Petroleum Institute, the most powerful fossil fuel lobby group in the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Stakeholder engagement demands training, internal and external collaboration, and certification. Risk Management.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Cascade Natural Gas, a utility with customers in Washington and Oregon, says it expects that regional demand for methane gas will grow by between 0.4

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Natural gas Methane Demand Pollution 98

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. When Eversource filed their rate case on January 17, 2017 (Docket D.P.U.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

A fuel supplier with deficits must generate or acquire an equivalent number of LCFS Credits on an annual basis, creating demand for low-CI fuels in California.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In June 2019, the UK government committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, becoming the first major economy to enshrine such a commitment in law. It needs to set out what is required from each sector and make clear the timetable for change in areas where solutions are already known," the report recommends.

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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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