Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the latest announcement’s coming out of Biden’s infrastructure law is an investment aiming to spur smart water and water efficiency projects in the US. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $8.3 These grants will support local community projects, including measuring water flow, automating water delivery or lining canals.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

As a result, community projects swept the board in Germany’s 2017 and 2018 auctions, which together saw 5.1 gigawatts in 2017, according to figures from the German wind association Bundesverband WindEnergie. “The rise in installations is largely attributed to the auction projects awarded back in 2017 and 2018," Barla said.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

But, EU law is now requiring members to inform the European Commission about the amount of electronics they recycle, collect, and export. According to the report, often only small household appliances end up in waste paper bins, which makes up approximately 750,000 tonnes compared to the region’s 6.15 million tonnes of annual e-Waste output.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The database — which academics, lawyers, and advocates often rely on for research and legal cases — had only included information through 2017. Their ranks have become even more intensely consolidated: In 2017, the rankings showed that 100 entities were responsible for 71 percent of the sector’s emissions between 1988 and 2015.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 From less than half a million barrels per day (BPD) in 2015, exports reached 1 million BPD in 2017, 2 million BPD in 2018, 3 million BPD in 2020, and 4 million BPD in 2023. trillion spending bill that contained several energy provisions. Annual U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Environmental law requires a range of skills, from technical to interpersonal. Chinyere also cited collaboration as an important skill in public interest law. Chinyere originally set out to do criminal law. Those interested in advocacy also may not know that law school is one of many paths to a satisfying career.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

“Combined with law,” says the group, “these approaches will open up a new field of precision toxicology that will transform approaches to chemical safety management in the same way that precision medicine is informing healthcare.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

This has resulted in cases in land and environmental courts against Swedish authorities for not complying with national or international environmental laws and conventions.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2017, its biggest year for largescale installations, it built only 27 megawatts. A law passed in July, HB 6 , reduces Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard from 12.5 Clean energy and environmental advocates have challenged the new law and are considering taking their fight all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The organisation is currently facing down a complaint to the UK Charity Commission, made by a cross-party group of MPs and the Good Law Project, who say the GWPF is not a charity, but rather a political lobbying group.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

“We founded Sangha Systems in late 2017 while working in renewable energy law, development and public policy because we recognized that cryptocurrency mining presents a one-of-a-kind energy profile that could expedite the mainstreaming of renewable energy,” said Spencer Marr, President and Co-Founder of Sangha Systems.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Firms no longer permitted to promote petroleum and coal products and services in France under new climate law. Adverts promoting fossil fuel products and services have been banned in France, after a cornerstone of President Emmanuel Macron's green legislative agenda officially came into force yesterday. pic.twitter.com/HH2TjvNr4u.

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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

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. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

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. Most of the links have been well known for a long time, but this is the first study to connect the dots, quantitatively.”

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 17, 2019

In 2017, only 43% of cases focused on EIRs. Overall, public agencies prevailed in 37 of 57 cases, or 65% of the time, the same percentage as in 2017, and won in 68% of EIR cases, compared with 55% in 2017. Of the 57 cases, 26 were published, 25 were unpublished, and six were partially published.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

It highlights a key speech given by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2017, which saw him position Brexit as a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to enhance the UK's environmental governance and protections, particularly in areas such as fishing, farming, water quality, and air pollution.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The European Battery Alliance (EBA), a group of around 800 industry stakeholders that was founded in 2017, has presented what it calls a “crisis proposal” for €100 billion in new investment to keep funds flowing for EU battery gigafactory plans.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The report also found that since 2017 the number of cases has been rising steadily, with a record number of 30 new cases submitted in 2021. As such, government framework litigation can help determine "how fast low-carbon transition occurs in different jurisdictions, increasing the pace and scale of climate action".

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector. Aviation emissions meanwhile grew 6 per cent in 2017 to 2.1

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The lack of consistency between states can be confusing to firms, said Blache, but he contended that most companies do their best to adhere to the law. At least 20 states have passed or introduced harsh new laws that make it a felony to protest at pipeline construction sites and other critical infrastructure. Credit: Karen Savage.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The lack of consistency between states can be confusing to firms, said Blache, but he contended that most companies do their best to adhere to the law. At least 20 states have passed or introduced harsh new laws that make it a felony to protest at pipeline construction sites and other critical infrastructure. Credit: Karen Savage.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This case is “truly historic,” said Sébastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law. In 2017, damaging wildfires in Portugal, made worse by climate change, killed more than 100 people and sparked the youths to file the lawsuit, which began in 2020.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a new survey of UK and US IoT adopters as a follow on to an earlier 2017 investigation, the Alliance has found that while fears over security remain a top challenge and improving security is a top IT priority, over the period these have become less of a concern, dropping by over 30%.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. But the policy program underpinning that success closed to new solar projects in March 2017, and just 385 megawatts of solar projects larger than 5 megawatts have been connected since.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Elsewhere, Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, introduced the " Aluminum Closed Loop " process to one of its sites in 2017, and intends to expand the use of this aluminum recycling process to other sites in the near future. . As a matter of principle, innovations that use a recycled material are certainly capable of patent protection.

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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. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

PG&E faces opposition from cities and counties to its plan to take advantage of a state law that will allow it to issue recovery bonds to securitize about $7.5 billion in 2017 wildfire claim costs and retire about $6 billion in temporary debt.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In 2019, the UK passed a law to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Nespresso’s business operations have been carbon neutral since 2017, but in 2022 the brand is going one step further by removing carbon from its supply chain and product lifecycle.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15.

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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. John putting up a protest sign in Reserve, Louisiana, on July 17, 2017.

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