GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Joyner’s home sits in a cozy loop of houses in a small Northampton County town. million tons of pellets per year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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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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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. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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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. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

Experts say the new research could help advance growing efforts to take polluters to court. Since 2017, cities and states have filed around 20 lawsuits against fossil fuel companies based on state laws that prohibit deceptive advertising, seeking money to adapt to the effects of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. percent of total energy consumption in 2050. The former BBC presenter has also promoted the series on his personal social media channels.

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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. Hawaii is one of them.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

According to his parliamentary register of interests, Lord Theodore Agnew has shares of at least £100,000 in Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned energy producer. Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth.

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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 the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. A few days later, RISE St.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. share of total U.S.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. To prove this is possible, the Commission claims that between 1990 and 2017 Europe’s CO2 emissions decreased by 22% while its economy grew by 58%. 3) It’s funding big polluters.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators. The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. An Eni spokesperson rejected this characterization. “We

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. share of total U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Farms also have critical energy needs, like pumping water to crops on set schedules, or chilling them after harvest, that could face significant disruption under the state’s new wildfire prevention regime. CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

But California regulators are adamant that PG&E must find a more permanent and less costly and polluting backup plan in the years ahead — even if it’s not clear yet what form it may take. The approval for the diesel generators will only be for this year and will come with strict reporting guidelines.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

leader said he would also establish a minister of energy planning tasked with making France the first major economy to stop using coal, oil, and gas, and a minister for environmental planning responsible for local transport, green building retrofits and boosting the water, air and food quality. La République en Marche!

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

This is despite the government’s 2021 Decarbonising Transport Plan , which lauded the Labour mayor’s efforts on air pollution for its “significant impact on air quality” and on “reducing the number of older, more polluting vehicles that enter London’s central zone.” Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50 million in April.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

By Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. Commercial building emissions were also higher. metric tons.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are a variety of ways to make a property more sustainable such as using green building materials , following a regular maintenance schedule, upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and appliances , and investing in onsite renewable energy systems (e.g. For homes specifically, those with energy efficiency ratings sell for 2.7%

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The journalist was investigating claims by local people that the plants run by KelKos, a subsidiary of Austrian energy firm Kelag, were operating without permits and potentially damaging the local ecosystem and water infrastructure. “We Jaramillo says these sorts of legal challenges jeopardize a fast and just transition to renewable energy.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

“We envision a just green economy, where there is unbound potential for renewable energy for everyone and workers are guaranteed living wages and access to good solar jobs. Washington’s solar workforce grew by eighteen percent from 2018-2017.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Food is responsible for over a third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and industrialised agriculture is the leading cause of wildlife decline, antibiotic resistance and pollution. Even public institutions such as hospitals – which are supposed to follow the Government Buying Standards – are failing to meet them.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

An expanded clean energy economy is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the Colorado GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap. This transition will require a well-trained, clean energy workforce. Clean energy jobs accounted for half of all new jobs in the U.S. in 2018 and 2019.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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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. Pricing mechanisms alone are also regressive as energy costs represent a greater percentage of low-income individuals annual income.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Urban sustainability in action: New York’s energy efficiency measures. According to a 2020 ACEE Scorecard , New York is ranked as one of the most energy-efficient cities in the U.S. The city’s progressive adoption of renewable energy technology contributes to this achievement. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Related: This “super plant” can actually absorb air pollution Past scandals Let’s time travel back to the “diesel dupe” of 2015. But post-exam, it cranked up and spewed up to 40 times above the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants allowed by U.S. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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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. The main initiatives to consider are as follows: Energy : How much energy is used? Risk Management.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. The situation has led some environmentalists to a counterintuitive idea: turning that wood into energy. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. So the stacks stayed put.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 8, 2024

Back in 2017, Climeworks became the first company to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and sell it as a product used in fizzy drinks and in a greenhouse. billion of federal funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into developing at least four DAC hubs. Two large projects have been selected so far to receive up to $1.2

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The previous year, the city had rejected a land use permit for a company called Zenith Energy, which receives crude oil shipped by rail from as far away as North Dakota. In the summer of 2022, it seemed that the days of an oil-by-rail facility in Portland, Oregon, were numbered. Why would you give up your power and leverage?’

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. Joyner’s home sits in a cozy loop of houses in a small Northampton County town. million tons of pellets per year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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