Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
Environmental and business groups urge government to ditch plans for bonfire of retained EU law ahead of Commons debate today. Concerns have also been raised about the Bill's huge drag on civil service time and resources as the review of retained EU law continues.
DeSmogBlog
MAY 25, 2022
The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”.
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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. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Are we here to talk about constitutional law, or do I need to put some pants on? For previous GTM Thanksgiving etiquette coverage, see: GTM’s Book of Customs, Traditions and Etiquette, Vol. GTM’s Book of Customs, Traditions and Etiquette, Vol.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections. Rushed law-making is not conducive to addressing environmental problems that are difficult, complex, inter-connected and long-term.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 27, 2020
First of all, the first-ever global assessment of environmental rule of law finds weak enforcement. All despite prolific growth in environmental laws and agencies worldwide. So expansion of laws and enforcement but doing nothing over Continue Reading.
Business Green
APRIL 19, 2021
Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit.
AGreenLiving
APRIL 1, 2022
A new book from agriculture policy experts Peter H. Rosenberg, “Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture,” addresses a variety of agricultural practices and how changes can provide a map for a healthier future. The number of regulations, laws and policies preventing cleaner agriculture are many and complicated. Gerrard, professor and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.
Inhabitant
APRIL 1, 2022
A new book from agriculture policy experts Peter H. Rosenberg, "Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture," addresses a variety of agricultural practices and how changes can provide a map for a healthier future Lehner and Nathan A.
GreenBiz
APRIL 5, 2021
In November, Massachusetts passed a resolution to bolster its 2012 automotive right to repair law — the first and only right to repair law on the books in the U.S. Right to repair is on the way. Suz Okie. Mon, 04/05/2021 - 00:40.
Front And Centered
JANUARY 21, 2021
The HEAL Act aims to make EJ the priority of state environmental laws and programs. The HEAL Act serves to improve government performance in achieving the objectives of environmental laws already on the books.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
To obey the law, To be ethically responsible, To give to philanthropic causes. . Business Legal Responsibilities: Obey the Law. Law is born from society wanting to operate with a rudimental moral grounding. It takes time for the law to catch up to rapidly changing society.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JULY 2, 2021
a leading thought and practice innovator in mindfulness-based antiracism and social justice, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and author of the award-winning book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.
Andrew Winston
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
But it’s disingenuous for companies to pretend they are passive observers of regulations, laws, or the political climate. Processes for electing representatives, passing legislation, establishing regulations, enforcing laws, and governing society in representative democracies.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
To obey the law, To be ethically responsible, To give to philanthropic causes. . Law is born from society wanting to operate with a rudimental moral grounding. For a business, these ground rules include laws, regulations, and fair business practices. The CSR Pyramid.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 3, 2021
In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. By Paul D. Thacker.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.
Fairsnape
MARCH 11, 2021
By being the first country to set an ambitious target in law for the recovery of nature, the UK will set an example which the rest of the world can follow.
Charged
JUNE 1, 2021
The bill, which contains a number of measures designed to incentivize clean energy, clean transportation and energy efficiency, must now be approved by the full Senate and the House of Representatives in order to become law.
Charged
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
The current EV tax credit system was signed into law by George W Bush, and was expanded during the Obama administration.
Grist
AUGUST 3, 2022
David George Haskell, a biologist and author of the book Sounds Wild and Broken, said he experiences the diminished soundscape as a “very thin, worn cloth,” comparing the richness of an untrammeled soundscape to the texture of thickly woven tapestry. “It’s
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
On November 17, a week before Thanksgiving, Tulane Law’s First Amendment Clinic, announced a favorable settlement on behalf of RISE. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2020
For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.
Grist
APRIL 15, 2020
There’s no chance that supermarket shoppers will mistake ‘all natural’ for a warning instead of an endorsement,” writes Alan Levinovitz in his new book. Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Today, Van Jones is best known as a CNN host and author of three best-selling books. But long before the Green New Deal, Jones was on the front lines of clean energy, trying to bring green jobs to black and brown communities.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
More than half of the participants turned out to be unfamiliar with the meaning of mitigation in its climate change context, instead associating it with law or insurance, where the term refers to minimizing losses.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Matthew Sinclair, who will be Truss’s chief economic advisor, wrote a book in 2011 called “Let Them Eat Carbon”, which criticised efforts to cut emissions, claiming they were unlikely to work and gave money to “special interests”.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Chamber of Commerce , an ultra-powerful business lobby, does not disclose its members, but it represents the interests of America’s largest corporations — some of which have a long record of breaking state and federal laws. The U.S.
Fairsnape
MAY 15, 2020
Alongside this viewing I am currently re-reading Underland, A Deeptime Journey by Robert Macfarlane as part of the Emergence Magazines book reading club. Plastic is the substance that has served as our most perfect container – and that now overwhelms our systems of containment.
Andrew Winston
JANUARY 5, 2022
A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world). [Happy New Year!
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2022
On the agenda were statements of concern about “I am Jazz” and “My Rainbow,” both books related to the LGBTQ community.
Andrew Winston
JANUARY 4, 2023
It started when the state of Florida passed a disturbing bill known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law , which restricts the teaching of gender and sexual orientation in elementary schools. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world).
Business Green
MAY 12, 2020
Key review measures have been stripped from most of the EU green laws transferred onto UK statute books, study suggests. With so much attention on the unfolding coronavirus crisis and its myriad impacts, Brexit has taken more of a back seat in the political theatre in recent months.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
It follows a debate in the House of Commons yesterday over the government's Retained EU Law Bill, which proposed a deadline of the end of 2023 for all EU-derived legislation - including an estimated 1,000 environmental laws - to be reviewed and retained, or scrapped altogether.
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.
DeSmogBlog
MAY 18, 2022
The group has also been lobbying state governments to exempt their recycling process from various environmental regulations — 18 states have laws on the books that either side-step certain government oversight or designate advanced recycling facilities as eligible for subsidies.
Low Impact
JUNE 30, 2021
It has also provided, as Barbara Griggs writes in her excellent book ‘Green Pharmacy, a history of herbal medicine’, a flimsy legal roof under which (the profession of herbal medicine) has sheltered and flourished to this day in Britain.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 15, 2022
Following a slew of successful cases against governments , campaigners have begun targeting the private sector from a variety of angles including challenges to how well their commitments chime with national and international climate targets , greenwashing , and breaches of corporate law.
Low Impact
DECEMBER 6, 2020
This is the first in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. CSR is known as a soft law, which means initiatives are not legally binding. Corporate Sustainability versus CSR.
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