Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. Sustainable investing advances. People are taking notice.

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Front And Centered

MAY 15, 2019

To bring us closer to that future, we pursued four priorities in the 2019 legislative session. Once this task force issues its recommendations, we will return to the Legislature to implement recommendations, ensuring environmental justice is fully embedded in our laws. Clean and affordable electricity for all. This policy, which Gov.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

In a disproportionate number of low-income black neighborhoods, redlining, segregation and weak zoning laws have led to the proliferation of junk food outlets and a lack of healthy alternatives. Meet the fellows for 2019 and 2020. Here are the 2019-2020 fellows. Learn more in this GQ profile. Civil Eats has a longer list.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The entire US fleet of full-size transit buses numbered about 72,700 in in 2019. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which became law in November of 2021, has made historic levels of funding available.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In December 2019 Morgan Stanley noted “the fastest growing U.S. while there is a large] re-rating opportunity for utilities with relatively high carbon-intensive power fleets,” if they ditch coal to invest in renewables. Karn coal plant, consistent with a 2019 settlement agreement to retire by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. It only indicates which investments are considered sustainable.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2020

While clean energy and cleantech investing has gained momentum over the last five years, 2020 was undoubtedly a landmark year for the industry, as investments on both a dollar and deal-count basis reached record levels globally. Tovo worked at AlpInvest Partners, where she was Associate in the Private Equity Secondary Investments team.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The truck rule follows another California law ( passed in 2018 ) that says all new public transit buses sold must be zero-emission starting in 2029. Nonprofit CALSTART predicts that 169 medium and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle models will be available by the end of 2020, growing 78 percent from the end of 2019. Subscribe here.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project told DeSmog that: “The Electoral Commission records these contributions as donations to the Conservative Party.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Representatives from Chevron said that flaring was related to a new hydrogen plant coming online, and that the refinery has made significant investments in reducing emissions of air pollutants over the past 40 years.). It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sam also accompanied SEPA staff to a non-compliant site and on a site visit to a legitimate waste operator to see how businesses should be operating to stay within the law and discovers how criminals undercutting these types of businesses can impact on the industry.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Ryan Law, managing director of Geothermal Engineering, said its technology - which involves drilling deep wells into granitic rock underground in order to harness hot water and steam to produce energy - held "huge potential" across the UK.

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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. The Rochdale based vinyl doors manufacturer are ready to reach their ambitious target by investing in clean technology and better energy efficiency. But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

This week Connecticut Governor Lamont signed a new law that will require the state to install 1 GW of energy storage by 2030 with milestone requirements every three years: 300 MW by 2024, 600 MW by 2027 and 1 GW by 2030. The Energy Storage Association (ESA) applauded the move.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

As more companies innovate products made using recycled materials, and so the value proposition of using recycled materials transitions into a consumer expectation, innovators may wonder how they can protect their investment in the development of such products.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

billion worth of bitcoin as an investment, and announced that it will accept the currency as payment for its products and services. “We A 2019 report entitled The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin , published in the journal Joule, estimated that bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption (as of November 2018) amounted to 45.8

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development. Versant Power last recorded 382 megawatts, in 2019.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And it was essentially a dead stock for over a decade – between 2009 and 2019. Because of this, Plug Power’s stock soared over 23-times in just two years (2019 to 2021). Please do not rely on the information presented by Carbon Credits as personal investment advice. First Hydrogen Corp.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development. Versant Power last recorded 382 megawatts, in 2019.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Our energy systems, like most legacy systems, are infused with racial injustices that do particular harm to Black communities, families and individuals because many of our laws and institutions were designed for that purpose. The resulting solar-plus-storage facility, recognized b y a 2019 U.S. Do justice. Towards regeneration.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ravi Gurumurthy is chief executive at Nesta, a foundation which works through programmes, investment, policy and research, and the formation of partnerships to promote social innovation across a broad range of sectors in the UK in order to promote social good. The conversation can be watched in full above.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." The study analysed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019.

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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. But with $4.75

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

But solar developers got some help too, with the IRS allowing for investment tax credit-qualified equipment bought in 2019 to be delivered into October and providing added assurance that developers will receive benefits as long as they have “reasonable” expectation that equipment will be delivered in the required timeframe.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Rule 2305 is the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR) – Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program. CTA claims that Rule 2305 is preempted by federal law, not authorized by state law, and is an unlawful tax. i] Case No.: 2:21-cv-6341. [ii] ii] Complaint at ¶ 13.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

This project is one of the significant Path to Clean investments BGE is making. Our strategic investments in battery storage are a key part of transforming the grid to further ensure safe, reliable, clean and affordable energy service for our customers,” said Mark Case, vice president of Regulatory Policy and Strategy at BGE.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2019, Front and Centered helped write and pass the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) to transition Washington state to 100% clean electricity over the next two decades. Invest attention in equity in every area of operation – generation, transmission, programming, workforce, planning, leadership, service, asset management, etc. –

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A next-generation water recycling system, unveiled by water infrastructure systems specialist SDS, will seemingly boost business sector efforts to save water by offering significantly improved investment returns for commercial developers and operators. In this way the system saves energy, too.”. For more information visit www.sdslimited.com.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. 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. The European Investment Bank is tipped to drive the financing of the Green Deal. 3) It’s funding big polluters.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. It’s an investment of time and effort, and there’s a cost to that.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New renewables projects continued to fuel growth at NextEra Energy in the third quarter of 2019. So far in 2019, more than half of the solar projects added will be paired with storage “as customers are increasingly interested in a near-firm low-cost renewable product," CFO Rebecca Kujawa said. That capacity is up from 11.7

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

When Chicago-based Invenergy scored $3 billion from global asset manager Blackstone in January, it was one of the largest renewables investments in North American history. In another instance, Goldman Sachs announced it would invest $250 million in Hydrostor’s energy storage projects. What’s driving the increase in investment?

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