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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2024

The tax was launched in 2022 and aimed to raise £5 billion in its first year, but the policy contained loopholes including tax relief on investments in UK fossil fuel extraction. The tax raised £2.6 billion in its first year. Households want lower bills, energy security and an economy fit for the future.

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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. Polluters are given allowances that allow them to emit only a set quota of carbon; if they exceed their allowances they can be fined.

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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. As it stands, the government is going ahead with its Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which aims to remove hundreds of EU-derived environmental laws by the end of 2023. million hectares.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms allow companies to sue national governments if they believe regulation or unfair competition is impeding their investments. While ISDS mechanisms are present in most investment treaties, some multilateral agreements have gained particular attention for how they are impeding climate action.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. 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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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Illustration by Nico H. Not so with apartment dwellers. It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2022 alone, America spent over $165 billion on climate related disasters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). What about all that great federal investment in clean energy and climate solutions, won’t that help? As virtually the entire planet swelters, the human and economic costs to the U.S.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Just like we work in our community gardens to build a healthy environment and nourish our communities, we can put those same practices to work on a larger scale. Investing in our future Thankfully, this is already happening. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. It can cause serious pollution, puts communities at risk and undermines the efforts of legitimate operators.”.

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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. " — FORATOM (@FORATOM_nuclear) January 4, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4 billion and $4.1

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. Rule 2305 is the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR) — Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine. The company is required by law to obtain a plan approval from DEP prior to installation and operation of the air contamination sources,” Decker said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The charity confirmed it is joining as co-claimant in the legal case against the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which alleges that the government's Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan 2022 is insufficiently robust. We're out of options. Our seas deserve better.".

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Three years after passing CETA into law, utilities have made halting progress in advancing the stated goals for electric utilities to equitably transition to 100% clean, non-greenhouse gas emitting electricity for Washington consumers. It is indisputable that taking action now is far less costly than putting it off. So what’s the hold up?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It calls on the recently launched OEP to formally investigate Defra's failure to set new targets covering areas such as biodiversity loss, water pollution, waste and recycling, and air quality ahead of a statutory deadline of 31 October. The proposal for an independent review of why the deadline was missed was also dismissed.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. Companies understand that well-designed public policy is in their business interest: it creates regulatory certainty, establishes a level playing field and enables long-term investment and innovation.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The maker of KitchenAid, Maytag, and Brastemp products announced earlier this week it would reduce its direct emissions to net zero by switching its global plants and buildings to renewable energy, investing in energy efficiency improvements, and purchasing carbon offsets.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last summer’s deluge in London dropped an equivalent of two month’s rain in just two hours, and those flash floods precipitated popped tops on manhole covers and sewage pollution warnings spanning from British streets to Welsh beaches. Ofwat, 2022).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. The Act also requires the Government to develop a Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, to be presented to parliament in September 2022, setting out how they’re going to stop sewage pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Eni is continuing to produce methane gas while also making “investments in decarbonization technologies [as well as] renewables, circular economy, projects, biofuels, etc.”, the spokesperson stated. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

particulate matter in line with WHO guidelines, but the bill itself includes only a commitment to set a target before 31 October 2022. ClientEarth lawyer Katie Nield decried the fact that there was “no legally binding commitment to meet WHO air pollution standards by 2030 in the Bill.” Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Here's a quick overview: [link] pic.twitter.com/XHsGWOxes5 — Ben Franta (@BenFranta) February 10, 2022. “I Climate-washing frames climate litigation in a new way, and it may be useful to keep polluters in check in relation to climate goals. We will argue the central bank’s purchase of bonds from big polluters is illegal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given," Charles said of his son and daughter-in-law.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Protesters in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on January 4, 2022, oppose the government’s plans for offshore drilling. January 4, 2022. The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”. Credit: Radio La Revuelta. December 16, 2021.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In early 2022, the Supreme Court will hear West Virginia v. Across the economy, companies are setting ambitious goals to cut climate pollution and transition to clean energy. EPA , a case with crucial implications for addressing the climate crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. Climate commitments.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mingomba could drive further investment in what might eventually become a major copper supplier. NIO Capital, a Shanghai, China-based investment firm, has raised $421m for its fund that invests in the automotive and energy sectors. Mineral ambitions. Why is this important now?  Can’t get enough deals?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Additionally, from an economic perspective, according to yahoo finance (2022), if we use one barrel of oil as a reference price, which was $110.48 on the 17th June 2022, we will see that transportation costs have increased substantially in the last year. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, ExxonMobil sued two of its “activist investors” — groups that try to use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies into taking action on social and environmental problems — in an attempt to block a proposal for the oil giant to limit its climate pollution from coming to a vote at an upcoming shareholder meeting.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2022, a Harvard University paper found that a “green innovation” narrative was one of the key social media tactics deployed by fossil fuel companies.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

Have you read: Global leaders vow to strengthen energy security and accelerate clean energy transitions Decarbonisation more cost effective than polluting alternatives in Central America IRENA’s Francesco La Camera spotlights next steps for climate action after COP26. Opportunities for emission reduction. Achieving net zero.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Excitement about the Inflation Reduction Act permeated the conference, with renewed opportunities to cut climate pollution from the electric power, manufacturing, transportation and building sectors while revitalizing U.S. VERGE 2022 Conference. manufacturing. $28 Treasury and other government agencies.

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