DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. This policy decision threatens the industry globally, because allowing its development was an EU mistake in the first place and this mistake shall hopefully be corrected now.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. The Big Stories of 2021. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Here we go. Business defends democracy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S. Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S. Policy & Politics.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 00:30. That is largely because they have a policy at the federal level that requires the implementation of recovery. laws — especially solid waste laws — treat recycling and disposal the same, making it more difficult to recycle and more difficult to reuse equipment. Lauren Phipps. Curtis: In the U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. years - up from about 2.1

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Fri, 02/12/2021 - 02:00. Even with the various layers of policies, laws and penalties in place to keep businesses in check, Mitchell believes the "destruction of the earth has become a pay-to-play endeavor. If you have money to violate the law, you can go ahead and do it." 4 things we can learn from Indigenous wisdom.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

One year ago, I called for more clarity and transparency on Scottish climate policy and delivery. Evidence from across the UK is that Scottish emissions will rebound in 2021. Since the Scottish Climate Change Act became law in 2009, the Scottish Government has failed to achieve 7 of the 11 legal targets. Agriculture and land.

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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 setting of new legal targets is a key part of the Environment Act 2021. The new version will have to show clearly how the government’s policies will deliver on its targets. million hectares.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. The post Draft 2021 Legislative Priorities appeared first on Front and Centered.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A new report from clean transport consultancy CALSTART found that there are some 5,480 full-size zero-emission buses in operation in the US—an increase of 66 percent since 2021—and another 859 in Canada. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which became law in November of 2021, has made historic levels of funding available.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

2021 saw unprecedented momentum gather behind the UK's climate and environmental agenda, aided in no small part by the UK hosting the critical COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November. The economic and social case for policy clarity has never been more important.

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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. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

The dialogues were launched in 2021 and continue today in Czechia and in France on the 5 th of April. In 2021 ten dialogues took place in ten different European countries. This reflects the theme from 2021 and means that the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU plan will be the discussions’ main focus.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Climate advisors warn Scotland is set to miss its interim climate goals due to lack of ambitious policy planning. But the CCC warned the fall was driven largely by the unique conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, and said it expected further analysis to show that Scottish emissions rebounded in 2021.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although Washington State hasn’t experienced the extreme heat devastating other parts of the country this summer, anyone who lived through the heat dome that struck the Pacific Northwest in 2021 clearly remembers how bad it can get. For more about how we do policy and the outcomes of this session, check out this previous blog entry.)

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. Meanwhile, the UK launched its hydrogen strategy in 2021. billion in 192 startups.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. It's a colossal task for an 8-year-old company that says it won't be profitable until at least 2021 and plans to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in costs this year. . Lyft is committed to using the most powerful tool we have to fight climate change: policy influence.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

According to an analysis released today by InfluenceMap, over 80 percent of corporate policy engagement on CCS between 2021 and 2023 does not meet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s science-based policy guidance, which includes recommended methods for limiting warming to 1.5°Celsius

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. But all the work must be underpinned by strong, smart policy,” de Thomas said. We want to get it back in the market,” said Rachel Goldstein, North America policy director for Mars.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. The clock is ticking loudly.”. per cent in 2020.

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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. Performance standards must be set for each building type by May 4, 2021, with the first compliance deadline coming in May 2025. and Washington state.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Credit: Sabrina Bedford. Credit: Ceescamel , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. Corporate buying commitments are an area where a lot of opportunity exists in the absence of comprehensive climate policy. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media. Here’s another summary from the AP.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth. The startup broadcaster has lost £76 million since its launch in 2021 and relies on the resources of Marshall and its other big stakeholder, UAE-based investment firm Legatum, to survive.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

By December 2021, that number had fallen to 17.9 energy policy has been clear about the intent to phase out fossil fuels. refinery capacity decreased during 2021 for second consecutive year , in which they discussed one of the major closures in 2021. It’s going to take some changes in our energy policy to address this.

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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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