DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

. ‘Tangled Relationships’ Even though ACS CAN’s lobbyists separate their anticancer work from the agenda of their fossil fuel clients, the tangled relationships undermine the mission of the public health organization in several ways, Browning said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new policy platform is thinking big on forests and climate. Tue, 12/01/2020 - 00:30. presidential election, the Forest-Climate Working Group (FCWG) released an ambitious federal policy platform , endorsed by 43 CEOs and organizations representing all dimensions of U.S. Policy & Politics. Kylie Clay. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.? Join us and explore: RNG 101: Production, Distribution, Policy. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 14:51. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 10:00. -

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 18, 2020

Leah Stokes, an expert on interest groups and their influence over policy, joins the gang. Her new book, Short Circuiting Policy , is the focus of our episode. How have they held back climate policy, and where would we be without their resistance? Recommended reading: Leah Stokes : Short Circuiting Policy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We discuss with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project , a non-partisan organization focused on identifying inactive environmentalists across the United States and turning them into reliable voters in every election. This year, the stakes are especially high. Control of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. Our observations and point of view for 2020 so far are: The pandemic has been an accelerator of trends, such as the digital transformation of the water sector, attention on lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, and the appalling underinvestment in water infrastructure in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Brown, female and on the bus: A personal journey into transportation policy. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 01:30. I was involved in groups and actions, I already had joined boards and commissions for youth, and I’d organized various petitions and rallies in school. Sahar Shirazi. I got my first passport at 6 months old.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

greenhouse gas emissions could fall by a record 11 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, according to new analysis , following last year's decline of about 2.8 renewables to overtake coal in 2020. But as economic activity resumes, emissions are likely to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. Any cuts are unlikely to last, however.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. Montana first enacted a state energy policy in 1993. Steve Gunderson introduced legislation to repeal the state energy policy. In the lawsuit, Held v.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Backed by the Austrian chapter of the youth climate strike organization Fridays for Future, a group of 12 children and adolescents launched a landmark constitutional climate case against the Austrian government on Tuesday. The post Austrian Youth Take their Government to Court Over ‘Ineffective’ Climate Policy appeared first on DeSmog.

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38 North Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Top 5 Energy Policy Predictions for 2020. In some ways, 2020 likely marks a holding pattern for climate and energy policy ahead of the November election. And even if national environmental policy remains rather stagnant, the electric vehicle industry — and domestic gas production — are poised to have a strong year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:45. The self-organizing, all-volunteer effort has more than 25 active state teams and organized more than 100 grassroots events, which collectively have raised more than $2.6 Clean energy policy is economic policy. Clean energy policy is climate policy . A vote for clean energy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

A campaign led by Friends of the Earth and allies calling on Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling Roundup and other glyphosate-based products has been supported by over 100 organizations and over 157,000 consumers. In May 2020, British home improvement retailer B&Q announced it would phase out glyphosate-based products. While the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The group spent €250,000 on EU lobbying in 2020 and employed 16 lobbyists. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020. Prior to its removal from the EU Transparency Register, the group published policy briefings that opposed plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . "We We were hoping [2020] would be a big year for forests and nature." (The

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

The accelerating debate over how best to protect and strengthen democracy bears close watching as a major barometer for the success of policies to advance sustainability. In the midst of this political firestorm, a growing number of organizations, chiefly corporations, are examining whether their donations support anti-democratic politicians.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Is Policy Inevitable? Hint: it is not sales.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

While Russia dropped missiles on Kyiv and laid siege to the port of Mariupol in late February, the oil and gas industry took advantage of the war in Ukraine to spread misinformation about the causes of the energy crisis in order to apply political pressure and pursue a longstanding wish list of policy changes, according to new research.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 16, 2021

This week FERC issued a policy statement clarifying how it will consider market rules proposed by regional grid operators that seek to incorporate a state-determined carbon price in organized wholesale electricity markets. Finally, the policy statement does not indicate a preference for carbon pricing over any other state policy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

Wed, 06/10/2020 - 01:30. The organization expects there to be 169 zero-emission commercial vehicles available for purchase, or soon to be available, in North America by the end of 2020; that's a 78 percent increase from the number of zero-emission commercial vehicles available at the end of 2019. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 20, 2020

Policy and Environment Graduate Programs at The New School in NYC prepares you to become a leader in your field while promoting social justice. Applications are being accepted for Fall 2020, with partial merit-based scholarships available. The GRE is not required.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Fri, 12/18/2020 - 02:00. Katie Fehrenbacher, senior writer and transportation analyst for GreenBiz, reflects 10 key trends from 2020 that will — or should — shape priorities in the 12 months ahead. Among them: bridge fuels to zero-emissions fleets; the public transit crisis; and what policies are mapping the journey. .

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

This piece was authored by Muhammad Abdullah, an 2023 summer Transportation Policy intern with Energy Innovation and Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch, Director Transportation and Senior Economist. But further policy action is needed to speed their adoption. 8] Globally, ZEV truck sales doubled in 2022, reaching 1.2

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:15. That pain point was the inspiration for a new climate data project launched this week that will be spearheaded by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit host organization for thousands of the most influential open source software and data initiatives in the world such as GitHub. Heather Clancy. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020 forced most people into a more distributed and virtual way of life. That scale of investment would have blown minds in any other year, but in 2020, massive California battery deals lost their shock value. The order says that aggregations of distributed resources must be able to compete in the organized markets that FERC oversees.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Mon, 11/02/2020 - 01:30. In the spring of 2020, many small farms across the U.S. If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. million certified organic acres, an increase of 9 percent over 2016. Can we build them? .

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. energy accelerated in 2020 and the benefits will be felt for years to come.”. Electricity Generation By Fuel Type in 2020.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I recently had a conversation with John Monsif , Director of Government Relations at McDonald’s, on why the company is leaning in on climate policy, and what key factors are necessary, both internally and externally, to become a successful climate advocate. Q: How did climate policy advocacy become a top priority for McDonald’s?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. That's a very different question.".

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For Black History Month, Justin Onwenu , a Sierra Club Environmental Justice Organizer based in Detroit, shared with us his thoughts on the environmental movement, organizing, his work in Michigan, and the work that lies ahead to dismantle environmental injustices. But that entire year threw me into organizing work.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:30. We were right to worry — things are, to be blunt, looking pretty terrible from a federal climate policy perspective. It will require sweeping policy change, and businesses can and must play a central role in making this happen. "I Mike Hower. The Trump administration has abandoned all semblance of U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It was not enough on November 3, when a majority of white people voted for the incumbent president whose policies are literally killing them. Only 35 percent of white registered voters said in the April 2020 survey that climate change was very important for them in the recent election, in contrast to a majority of Latino and Black voters.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:45. We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. Groups such as the Business Council of Australia that welcomed the abolition of the carbon price back in 2014 are calling for an effective climate policy with a price signal at its heart. Carbon Policy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

For many organizations, a direct DEI connection to their mission has not been made by leadership whose inattentiveness or nonreceptivity cascades downwards into the culture. In recent years, DEI has emerged as a distinctive field in governance and public policy that provides a key set of performance measures for economic and social progress.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Renewable Energy Markets™ (REM) will take place on September 9–11, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, March 31, 2020. REM™ is organized by the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, with significant support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The first in a series of webinars to help organizations develop a practical and actionable net zero strategy will be hosted by environmental consultancy Ricardo on at 11:00 – 12:00 GMT [12:00 – 13:00 CET] on 16 January 2020. To register for the webinar visit: [link].

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2018, Caroline Spears launched the Climate Cabinet Action Fund to offer bespoke climate data, policy ideas and messaging suggestions to candidates and lawmakers. The organization currently focuses on the state level, where races are low-budget but highly consequential. PAC : 2020 Climate Change Voter’s Guide.

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