Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. The government uses this number as one of several key metrics to evaluate the costs and benefits of policies that affect greenhouse gas emissions, like fuel economy standards for vehicles or oil and gas leasing plans.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

But a significant minority of investors remains wary of shifting regulations, according to research in May from Ashurst, an international law firm. Australian government policy has been similarly inconsistent. Businesses worldwide are getting behind the move to cleaner energy systems.

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GreenBiz

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. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

However, because of the complexity of how schools are financed, the impact on student achievement is limited , according to a new study that we conducted as researchers in public finance , education economics and energy policy. wind installations from 1995 through 2017 and tax revenue trends in school districts. Windfall of wind taxes.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Changemakers Louise Bedsworth, Heather McTeer Toney, Josh Stanbro, and Randall Winston join Elemental Policy Lab to help close the gap between technology and policy. I am thrilled that the Lab will support these seasoned changemakers as they pursue bold, innovative policy solutions to the climate crisis.”. “I

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. Read the complaint in full, and see list of signatories, here.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Research initiative aims to provide policy advice and expertise to businesses and policymakers on how to accelerate the global race to net zero emissions. Aiming to carry out research to support green policy interventions, the initiative has secured £2.2m

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That prediction is finally coming true: A group of Puerto Rican communities, which were ravaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, are suing Shell and other fossil fuel producers in a first-of-its-kind, class action climate liability lawsuit. . The groundbreaking case — filed November 22 in the U.S.

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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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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. Making sure policies are embedded in them is really important.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Policy and Regulatory Affairs Associate | Fervo Energy | NV, UT, IH, or CA. FERVO ENERGY Fervo Energy Roles: Policy and Regulatory Affairs Associate – Western States . This is a unique opportunity to shape policy and help direct stakeholder engagement with one of the clean energy industry’s most exciting companies. .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”. As prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, Abbott’s centre-right Liberal Party was widely seen as hostile to climate policy.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with sustained winds of 155 mph.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state. In 2018 St.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

The Conservative leader, which some polls suggest is favoured by Canadians to be the next prime minister, stated earlier this year that as far as climate policy goes he’s in favour of “technology, not taxes,” without providing concrete details. There’s no indication Conservatives will do anything other than destroy climate policy,” May said.

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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. The industry gets a lot of policy support in the US, with the Biden administration funneling $3.5 Two large projects have been selected so far to receive up to $1.2

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Danly, who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Chairman Kevin McIntyre, graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A research project to shape regulation and policy on chemical safety, and without the use of animal testing, has been launched with the aid of €19.3M ” In particular, they suggest that precision toxicology will be instrumental in shaping policy and regulation of this field. funding from the European Commission.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Large environmental nonprofits can play a key role in shaping policy and regulation around cleantech. Environmental law requires a range of skills, from technical to interpersonal. “The most important thing is to understand the legal and regulatory policies underpinning energy systems and how to change them,” said Kennedy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. The law firm Jones Day frames ISDS climate claims as “an opportunity – if brought in the right forum – for companies exposed to certain climate-related government measures to vindicate their rights.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

DeSmog’s revelations come ahead of a major vote on the pesticide reduction law by the EU’s agricultural committee, which is due to take place on October 24. Campaigners and green politicians fear the law could be considerably weakened, amid mounting pressure from national ministers to strip out legally binding targets for member states.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

According to the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University, the Trump administration has lost 69 of the 83 legal challenges it’s faced in its deregulatory blitz. . "We climate policy to move forward. The reality is that when Congress passed these laws," says Hartl, "they were designed to make the environment better.".

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Alice Hardiman, Head of Policy & Advocacy, RSPB England said: “During the most restrictive parts of lockdown we heard how people across the country connected with the nature in their local area like never before and how those who lived in urban areas longed for better access to green and beautiful wildlife havens.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The legal pressure on governments around the world to deliver more ambitious climate policies is continuing to intensify, according to a major new analysis from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

A DeSmog investigation in May revealed that one in three GB News hosts spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while half attacked climate policies. Kruger worked as a senior adviser to the Legatum Institute from 2017 to 2018. Hayes has in the past supported the controversial practice of fracking for shale gas.

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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 per cent per year. ”

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38 North Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2018

We closed out 2017 after fighting successfully to remove the most damning provisions for clean energy from the tax bill. With that bill now law, we will need the rest of this year and, perhaps, several more, to figure out how the new tax code will impact innovative industries. appeared first on 38 North Solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

’s board of directors has terminated CEO Charles Jones and two other senior executives, saying in a Thursday statement that an internal review committee determined the three “violated certain FirstEnergy policies and its code of conduct.”

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Charged

JANUARY 11, 2022

Well, isn’t that magnanimous of the company, to allow the state government to pass its own laws? For those of you who’ve just joined us: In 2017, major automakers asked the incoming US president to water down federal fuel economy regulations , and the administration enthusiastically complied.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

“We are calling on Scottish Ministers to take urgent action to ban bottom-towed fishing gear in all of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas and reinstate the 3 nautical mile inshore trawl and dredge ban,” said Melissa Moore, head of UK policy at Oceana. “As Scotland needs to step up and protect its rich and diverse marine life.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The former senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) was appointed to FERC in 2017 and served as interim chair before beind named chairman in 2018 , and will remain on the commission through June 2021. FERC decisions under fire from states with clean energy policies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature. Green investment.

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