DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” That’s going to be a problem for us,” he acknowledged in an interview with The Telegraph last year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

conservative magazine National Review. A year earlier, in 2017, Matthews encouraged his Twitter followers to watch a video from former UKIP London Assembly Member David Kurten entitled “Why Islamophobia is a silly made up word”. percent in 2016, while UKIP won 16.9 In 2018, Matthews posted an article on Twitter from the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Review your green habits. Review your green habits. By performing an environmental audit, you can review your current waste and recycling management efforts and potentially find ways you can improve. of business waste was recycled in 2016 and 44.9% According to recent government statistics, just 48.5% of household waste.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Boyd found that the number of known ISDS cases targeting environmental protections has “skyrocketed” in recent years, with nations ordered to pay more than $100 billion in damages to coal, oil, gas, electricity, and mining firms. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties. Even the existence of a claim can be concealed.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Investment 120

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 22, 2020

gigawatts of renewable generation in its first auction under a pay-as-bid model introduced earlier this year. aims to correct problems with auctions in 2016 and 2017. The auction review process “needed to be done.". Spain has launched a tender for up to 3.18 Concerns over the details of the auction framework.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2018, two years after announcing the financing deal, UKPF revealed it had become a supplier to KFC in Kazakhstan. as clients.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 88

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott, who was originally appointed to the Board of Trade in September 2020, is one of only four advisers reappointed by Badenoch, who has relaunched the board to focus on exports following her appointment as business and trade secretary earlier this year. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid development and may delay project origination and timelines over the next year, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest review and forecast. microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Energy transition attorney Piet Holtrop, among the most significant legal figures in the Spanish renewables sector, told GTM that a promise of a 12-year fixed return from the government amounted to “petty money” compared to the amounts investors stood to gain through litigation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. However, with much of Europe and the US also experiencing record heatwaves in recent years, the report warns that labour productivity is being undermined by worsening climate impacts at a global level.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. Students across Europe have protested at schools and universities since returning for the new academic year.

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Fossil fuels Education Global warming Pollution 103

Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 30 years, counties along the Texas-Mexico border will experience temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a third of the year. The group’s peer-reviewed model projects that that figure will increase 13-fold to about 107 million in 30 years. By 2053, 26 percent of counties in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

while Spain’s bumper year of installations in 2019 is going through its first springtime boost. while Spain’s bumper year of installations in 2019 is going through its first springtime boost. gigawatts, set in May last year. This time around, the effect is more pronounced. The previous record was 9.55

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Friday’s deferred prosecution agreement filed in federal court will require ComEd to pay the fine and comply with regulations for three years. But the agreement, which is awaiting a court hearing date, will allow the 4.2 Exelon CEO Anne Prammigiore left the company in October, and top lobbyists have also left the company.

Energy Monitor 130

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Samsonite is proud of its 110-year history of industry leadership in the innovation, quality and durability of its products. Samsonite is proud of its 110-year history of industry leadership in the innovation, quality and durability of its products. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00. We report our progress annually in Samsonite’s ESG report.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

All of the companies reviewed — Bloomberg, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and The Washington Post — top lists of most-trusted news outlets in both the U.S. and Europe. “People are reading about it in the news, that’s what shapes their understanding. .

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

“The EU Commission will have to review if the calculation method, as well as the assumptions, are plausible. In other words, a €40 billion policy's future at least partly relies on accurate natural-gas forecasting 18 years into the future. Even with compensation, utility RWE thinks it will face a €900 million ($1.06

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Campaign group ShareAction and 11 leading institutional investors last month filed a resolution calling on HSBC to close fossil fuel policy 'loopholes', which investors had identified following the publication late last year of the bank's coal phase out policy.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

The Chevrolet Bolt EV has earned some impressive reviews since its 2016 launch. Earlier this year, it performed the notable feat of increasing sales by 36% in the first quarter—a period during which overall Chevy sales were down (at least part of that success was due to heavy discounting).

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Technology 49

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 16, 2021

Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. For the second year in a row, solar led all technologies in new electric-generating capacity added, accounting for 43%. According to Wood Mackenzie’s 10-year forecast, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Following the mutilation of more than 400 cats across various locations in London over the four year period, media speculation suggested that a human ‘cat killer’ may have been at large in Southern Greater London, within the M25 and, later, across the whole of England. Some feared that the alleged killer could become a threat to human safety.

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Law 130

Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Government department publishes sobering assessment of lack progress to date against objectives of 25 Year Environment Plan. per cent between 2011 and 2016. per cent between 2011 and 2016. per cent between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021, and raw material consumption rose by 10.3 per cent between 2012 and 2017.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

The Heartland Institute has for years hosted conferences where climate deniers talk to each other and the media (events known to critics as "denial-paloozas"). Only two years before this conference, Heartland had issued its press release saying that manmade global warming was a "fringe" view (held by mass murderers, etc.)

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

per share, in the same quarter last year. renewables capacity, including 831 megawatts of onshore wind built last year by its Oregon-based Avangrid Renewables subsidiary. Renewables net income grew to $52 million in the first quarter compared to $4 million in the same quarter last year. gigawatt onshore wind power fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

He stressed that the study had yet to complete its peer-review process and that it did not cover all the potentially toxic materials in each type of module. The challenges for wind turbine blades are even greater. National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s resources and sustainability group. Elsewhere, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Most product designers are unlettered in chemistry, and the practice of green chemistry remains in its early years. Most product designers are unlettered in chemistry, and the practice of green chemistry remains in its early years. Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory, although the EPA total for recent output is less than 9,000.

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Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 507

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The thinktank could have engaged an active climate scientist such as climatologist Gavin Schmidt , Director of the NASA institute where Professor Bates worked 25 years ago as a senior scientist, if it desired “a progressive move into the 21st Century”, Anderson said. “As Climate ‘Contrarian’. Institutional Ties.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Health 80

Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. But in May 2016, days before the legislative aide called Peters, the U.S. But in May 2016, days before the legislative aide called Peters, the U.S. This story was co-published with Fast Company. Aerial view of Stuart, Florida.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Capping household energy bills at a maximum of £2,500 per year from October 2022, the Energy Price Guarantee had been warmly received when it was announced by Liz Truss on 8 September, and a similar scheme aims to take pressure off business energy users, the Energy Bill Relief Scheme.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Sophie Paterson reviews a valuable new addition to any natural building bookshelf in the form of A Complete Guide to Straw Bale Building by Rikki Nitzkin and Maren Termens, published by Permanent Publications earlier this month. A complete guide to straw bale building in 320 pages? Credit: Permanent Publications.

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Construction 83

T Rex Group

APRIL 28, 2020

T-REX has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 compliance since December 2016. . As T-REX’s solutions suite expands to serve a growing user base of global capital markets professionals, the company will continue to participate in an annual review to provide assurance of SOC 2 compliance.”. Contact: Nandita Ray. nandita.ray@trexgroup.com.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

New guidance and rating systems aim to help property developers and managers green their buildings, but an analysis warns Spending Review commitments could cover barely a thousandth of the total cost of making UK buildings net zero compatible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is close to five years to the day since the now defunct Energy and Climate Change Select Committee released its report detailing how policy uncertainty was hindering the low carbon transition. Take the furore over the Green Homes Grant as the latest example. For now though, nobody knows. Another example - fuel duty.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Policy Government 58

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

New analysis of Environment Agency data appears to reveal a worrying level of chemical pollution in rivers and other freshwater sites across England. The actual numbers of chemical pollutants will be even higher 3 The chemical cocktails found across the 1,619 sites contained six different chemicals in five different hazardous mixtures.

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Pollution Health Government Medicine 344

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Since 2016, we have collaborated with ASU on significant programs including the Planet Incubator Program within ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science , the development of the Allen Coral Atlas , as well as being two of the founding partners in the creation of the Carbon Mapper mission.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 4, 2023

We launched the Education and Research Program in 2017, and are now nearing the sixth year of its operation. This will be a first-of-its-kind service for our program and empower researchers to explore the world with high-resolution (50 cm) imagery and review data that was captured at the same location multiple times a day.

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Education Innovation Biodiversity Agriculture 98

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

CEO Chris Crane confirmed the “review of our corporate structure,” first reported to be underway by Bloomberg last month, during the Chicago-based company’s third quarter earnings conference call. Those plants and the two set to close next year provide 70 percent of Illinois’ carbon-free power.

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