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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Natural England has also been asked to provide its view on the effectiveness of the compensation package, which include plans to repurpose an old oil rig as a nesting site for kittiwakes and measures to assess any adverse impacts from the new wind farm on seabirds.

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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. Products & Packaging : Do our products use sustainably sourced and eco-friendly materials? Risk Management.

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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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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

billion in tourism at the close of 2017. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Organic straws, food containers made from bamboo, banana leaves used to package fresh produce, and reusable shopping bags. Thailand earned US57.5

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2021

To comply with this court order, the Dutch government has committed to implement a €3bn package of emissions-reduction measures and to reduce the capacity of its remaining coal-fired power stations by 75 per cent. Mark Clarke is a partner and Gwen Wackwitz an associate at law firm White & Case.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. The European Commission launched its Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations in November 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. There is also much more processing and packaging involved. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. There is also much more processing and packaging involved. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

In recent years, the number of organizations pledging to support the TCFD’s landmark 2017 recommendations for disclosing information about climate risks and opportunities has increased rapidly. These models represent physical laws captured in computer code and simulated on supercomputers at research centers around the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017. bn over six months, with the welfare package for the most vulnerable households worth £10.7bn. The overall scheme would run at a maximum cost of £26.bn

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

We want them to invoke their law and do their own testing of the whole entire area,” Beverly Reed, an Ohio Valley business owner and member of Concerned Ohio River Residents, stated at the press event. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, July 5, 2017 inspection report.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i] tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. The toymaker seeks to cut normalized carbon emissions in half by 2028.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2020

Facts about CBD In 2018, Congress passed a law legalizing hemp in all 50 states and removing CBD from the controlled substance list. For example, a 2017 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 26% of the 84 CBD products tested contained lower doses than the label stated.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Officers examining the bales of waste discovered electrical and electronic equipment, used nappies, sanitary towels, food contaminated packaging, food, dog excrement, wood, textiles, shoes, clothing, jewellery, aerosol cans, toys, glass, plastic food and drinks containers and cans.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The EAC also reiterates calls for an overhaul and extension for the troubled Green Homes Grant programme , following weeks of negative headlines arising from administrative problems with the scheme and confirmation from the government last week that it is withdrawing over £1bn from the initial budget of the stimulus package.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Chapter 15 of the in 2017 published book Sustainable Asia , Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste in Southeast Asia by C. According to a statement published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, China is in the process of revising its Solid Waste Law.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new report released this morning by Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals the UK's 10 leading supermarkets collectively produced almost 897,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019, a figure that marks a 1.6 per cent increase on levels recorded in 2017. Meanwhile, almost 2.5

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Packaging and plastic bags from seven of the UK's top 10 supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S, and the Co-op, was found burning or dumped illegally by roadsides, in fields and in waterways across 10 sites in the region of Adana, the campaigners said.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

EPIC was formed in 2017 to build, own and operate midstream infrastructure in both the Permian and Eagle Basins in the Texas oil part. Last September, dozens of climate groups urged leaders in Congress to avoid funding hydrogen-based technologies in the infrastructure and budget reconciliation packages. Nevertheless, $9.5

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The SCAQMD plans to release the 75-day package ( i.e. , the Draft Rule, Draft Staff Report, and Draft Socioeconomic Analysis) on February 14, 2020, and the 30-day package ( i.e. , refinements of the 75-day package) on March 31, 2020. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov. 20, 2019). [6] 6] See 42 U.S.C. 7410(a)(5)(C).

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The SCAQMD plans to release the 75-day package ( i.e. , the Draft Rule, Draft Staff Report, and Draft Socioeconomic Analysis) on February 14, 2020, and the 30-day package ( i.e. , refinements of the 75-day package) on March 31, 2020. Endnotes. [1] 5] See [link] (last visited Nov. 20, 2019). [6] 6] See 42 U.S.C. 7410(a)(5)(C).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Supporting these findings, a 2017 report by the Upjohn Institute concluded that employee-owned organizations were 75% less likely to go out of business. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country? Harvard researchers discovered that employee wellness programs can save companies $3.25

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

What started as a farm-led movement to reduce the amount of chemical inputs used on crops became a moneymaker for farmers, supermarkets and consumer packaged goods companies, while also supposedly being better for the planet, but even that is disputed. Do they have the law behind them? Do they provide some third-party assurance?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. The toymaker seeks to cut normalized carbon emissions in half by 2028.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Analysis by the Container Recycling Institute suggests that over a billion people will live in jurisdictions with a DRS in place by 2030 - up from 300 million in 2017. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation , this represents an opportunity worth $10bn if 20 per cent of single-use plastics are replaced with refillable alternatives.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Now part of cosmetics group Natura&Co following its 2017 acquisition, the certified B-Corp has reached an "interesting tipping point" on its net zero journey and is seeking to ramp up its focus on circularity across its 3,000 locations, according to global sustainability and activism director, Chris Davis. per cent between 2019 and 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork Strategy – a package of commitments designed to make farming in Europe more sustainable – aims to cut farm antibiotic use by 50 percent from 2018 levels by 2030. If that were to be applied – and it is the law, so it should be applied – then that would mean changes to animal husbandry practices in the EU.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In recent years, they’ve packaged it in ways that could be turned into anti-protest legislation. By the end of 2017, AFPM had drafted legislation criminalizing protest near “critical infrastructure,” the state of Oklahoma had passed it, and ALEC was pushing it to other state lawmakers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Clearwater began operating in November 2017, according to one drilling industry news site. Clearwater, according to the drilling industry news site, began operating in November 2017. Veolia would design, build, operate and maintain the facility under a 10-year agreement in return for more than $255 million, Antero said in 2015.

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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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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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