Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

“Farming and rural land management,” he said, “impacts a higher proportion of our water bodies – 45% – than any other source, mostly through what is called diffuse pollution,” he said, referring to chemicals from things like fertilizers and pesticides, which run off the land and pollute water courses. An easier finger to point.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. million smart meters by 2025. The Environment Agency has similar expectations, asking all water companies in England to install smart meters from 2025.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

The discovery phase of the Massachusetts case is expected to wrap up later this year, and it could head to trial as early as 2025, Johl said. Reynolds, and other tobacco giants agreed to pay states $206 billion over the next 25 years. Oil companies have plans to fight back, though. So far, this approach has seen some modest success.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The percentage of emissions covered for intra-EU journeys would ratchet up over time, starting at 40 per cent in 2025, before rising to 70 per cent in 2025, and 100 per cent in 2026. Smaller vessels would be exempt from the legislation, which is to apply on all ships above 5,000 gross tonnes.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

The corporation is aiming for 100 percent reusable, recyclable and/or compostable packaging by 2025. Plastics Pact Roadmap to 2025 whose signatories — stakeholders across the plastics value chain — have committed to reaching defined targets through specific actions, to advance a circular economy for plastic packaging.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. coal capacity left in 2025 may not need replacement. “If

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. coal capacity left in 2025 may not need replacement. “If

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

million by 2025 and 3 million by 2030. Current funding plans from the CEC and utilities are expected to add another 117,000 Level 2 chargers and 4,300 DC fast chargers by 2025 — enough to close in on, but still not reach, the goal of 240,000 Level 2 chargers and 10,000 fast chargers by mid-decade that was set by former Gov.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities that are under requirements to disclose environmental information shall disclose the emissions information, technologies and methods of pollutants treatment, emissions target and measures, and administrative penalties. The authors would like to thank Yuxuan Chen for her contribution to this blog post. [1]

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A trial could be scheduled to start sometime in 2025. Canada is one of the world’s largest emitters of climate pollution, and ranks as the fourth biggest producer of oil and sixth biggest fossil gas extractor. She said the legal team plans to file the amended complaint early next year.

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Front And Centered

MAY 15, 2019

Although the bill did not make it through the process, we received funding for a critical component of it in the state budget: a task force that develops strategies to address environmental health disparities with the guidance of leaders from communities most impacted by pollution. Clean and affordable electricity for all.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

"We've tried tirelessly to influence the UK government on what needs to be done, but their Plan to address this deluge of pollution entering our seas is still unacceptable. The case is being led by the Good Law Project, with seafood business Richard Haward's Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm also acting as co-claimants.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 11, 2021

This is as a result of a new law that was passed by the state. Bills S543 and A5082, which were led by State Senator Todd Kaminsky and Assemblymember Steve Englebright, ban the use of such bottles in hotels in a bid to reduce plastic pollution. The law comes into effect at a time when our oceans continue to be flooded with plastic.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The government and Ofwat have announced plans to approve 31 schemes proposed by water companies designed to tackle water pollution and increase the country's resilience to drought, amid growing pressure on both the government and the water sector over the country's record on water quality and sewages discharges.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Every business should now follow & government should make it law. Today we've disclosed our full plastic footprint - it's horrific.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. billion to £3.5

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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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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law. The Senate version still allows major polluter Spokane’s Waste-to-Energy incinerator to qualify as a clean energy generator. More about SB 5116. in their budget planning and evaluation of resource generation options.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EU carbon prices have yet again sent records tumbling, reaching an all-time high of over €80 per tonne of CO2 this week, as the cost of polluting continues to get ever more expensive. per cent, between 2021 and 2025, Reuters reports. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP lead the industry – not only in pollution and global warming emissions – but in deception,” said Miriam Eide, executive director of Fossil Free California. Maine enacted a law in 2021 that commits the state’s pension system to divest from the petroleum industry by 2026.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Clean Oceans Initiative doubles funding goal to €4bn by 2025. The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050. The United States, Canada’s largest trading partner, also has a goal of producing 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035.

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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.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. A Regenerative Economy.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law a bill that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks in the state by 2035. Sources: Bloomberg Law , Reuters , GM Authority. The bill (S.2758/A.4302) 4302) was introduced last October, and passed the legislature in April.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Additionally, Anglo American, a key copper producer, plans to reduce its output in 2024 and 2025 to decrease costs. Escondida's output in 2025 is anticipated to be at least 5% lower than current levels. The law that would mandate more supply chain monitoring and emissions tracking. 

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Brazil's net zero pledge is facing yet more scrutiny, after the government published plans for a new 'Just Energy Transition' law which would allow it to continue to subsidise the coal industry until at least 2040. Brazil moves to retain coal subsidies under 'Just Transition' banner.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Under the plan, a new Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme will support the restoration of 35,000 hectares of degraded peatland in England, backed by over £50m between 2021 and 2025, while a public consultation will launch later this year on proposals to ban sales of peat products by 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

At Unilever we've pledged to halve our use of virgin plastic by 2025. With an ambition to conclude negotiations by the end of 2024, the hard work starts now to put in a place a robust plan to deal with plastic pollution. A legally binging UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution, backed by business, will be essential to making this happen.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

As people cannot see the pollution from selfies, video conferences, and streaming movies, there is a perception these services are boundless. Figures from think tank The Shift Project show digital technologies account for four per cent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than civil aviation, and this could double by 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law.

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

The 2023–2025 state budget is roughly $70 billion, with almost $2 billion of that coming from CCA revenue. We aimed to codify a statewide transit standard in law that would result in better local transit. Front and Centered led the effort to incorporate environmental justice in this bill over multiple years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. The results come the week after Southern Water was sentenced to pay a record-breaking £90m fine after pleading guilty in court to 6971 unpermitted pollution discharges.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i]

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