DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang to 10 fish processing plants in the coastal province of Shandong since 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s electric power sector proposal follows nearly ten years of litigation filed by environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and resulting court-ordered EPA rulemaking. Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations. For most industries, a better option is to reduce the carbon intensity of operations with carbon reduction technologies and strategies.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes. "I

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

There are 2,600 megawatts of solar power capacity installed in the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In concept, community solar allows people who otherwise can’t use solar power to access the benefits of solar panels: having a source of clean energy that also cuts down your electric bills.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s electric power sector proposal follows nearly ten years of litigation filed by environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and resulting court-ordered EPA rulemaking. Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Long Island was once the “backbone” of New York’s solar industry, according to Steven Engelmann, business development director at New York-based EnterSolar. megawatts in 2018, according to numbers from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. megawatts in 2016 to 83.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The OEP aims to be fully operational in the New Year, when it expects Parliament formally enable the OEP's powers and functions in law. The OEP will also offer independent advice and oversight on the law and other environmental matters.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

With Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week confirming financial support to help businesses with their energy bills is set to halve, BusinessGreen explores how businesses can proactively cut their consumption. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme is already on its way out. per MWh for gas when prices move above £107 per MWh.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries. And research by the U.S. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

The global meat industry is once again under fire over its links to rainforest destruction, with a major investigation today revealing that beef supplied by companies linked to illegal deforestation in Brazil may have ended up on the shelves of several leading British supermarkets, and even in food products supplied to the NHS.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 10, 2022

G2 Venture Partners invests in exceptional teams applying emerging technologies to traditional industries, sustainably. The fund focuses on innovation in the transportation, energy, industrials, agriculture, logistics, and retail sectors, with investment stages ranging from venture to growth.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), the state’s main support mechanism for behind-the-meter batteries, to focus more than half of its $1.2 billion budget through 2024 on providing backup power to protect its most vulnerable populations.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Climate Corps alumni are energy and sustainability leaders of today who are working around the world to tackle some of our most challenging environmental issues. Climate Corps alumni are energy and sustainability leaders working around the world to tackle some of our most challenging environmental issues. Environmental Justice Award.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. of transport’s energy mix would need to be composed of biofuels. A powerful economic driver. C by 2100, at least 26.3% Kallista Alam has managed to evade a $26.5

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2018). In 2018 Thailand indefinitely shut down one of its most popular beaches, Maya Bay. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Thailand earned US57.5 billion in tourism at the close of 2017.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. We’ve made great progress driving down emissions across our own business, including meeting our industry-leading methane intensity target of 0.2 BP took such a step today.”.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

1] North Dakota was the first state to obtain primacy for Class VI wells in April 2018, with Wyoming following in October 2020, and Louisiana now joining as the third state. For example, before liability can shift to the state, the operator must demonstrate that the storage facility poses no risk to USDWs or public health.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

Renewable energy, energy storage and other technologies can help growers not only minimize their electricity bills – a substantial operation expense for the typical indoor farm – but also give them a leg up in the State’s licensing process. I. Environmental Impacts of Cannabis.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We now have child labor monitoring in all our managed sustainability programs and 100% deforestation monitoring in our direct supply chain across nine countries, underpinned by traceability to the individual farm or community. We need to build on these successes with further multi-stakeholder action.

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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

Dennis Carroll, a scientist who used to be with the CDC and USAID , along with a few collaborators shared in a paper they published in Science (2018) about the risks humans faced from a pandemic spillover. So what does this look like for the industry I most worry about for the next possible shock, water? The current state of the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. The area is rural, and peppered with industries — including Westrock Paper Mill, a warehouse and distribution center for Lowe’s Hardware, an industrial hog farm, and Enviva.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing often became smothered in sludge. Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. The company has not replied to questions.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

Renewable energy, energy storage and other technologies can help growers not only minimize their electricity bills – a substantial operation expense for the typical indoor farm – but also give them a leg up in the State’s licensing process. I. Environmental Impacts of Cannabis.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. Seaweed cultivation also can provide an economic return that could support near-term industry growth.

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