Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Let’s hope whoever is in Number 10 next year opens their cheque book after all. Vince Zabielski writes Last month, Labour’s Kier Starmer faced criticism from the Tories for cutting their green spending plan from £28bn per year to £4.7bn.

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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.

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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. The panel will include Rhonda V. Magee, M.A.,

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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. But it does not create any new environmental programs or regulations.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Today, Van Jones is best known as a CNN host and author of three best-selling books. In this episode, Jones reveals a little-told backstory of his "nerd" childhood and early life, his transformation at Yale Law School, and the painful time he briefly joined, and then left, the Obama Administration. "I

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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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. “The

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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. FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Anti-science climate change denialism has become the secret handshake that ushers in the faithful and bars the door to unbelievers,” Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” ” And we know that – that’s basically what my book is about. Professor Dana R. Credit: Dana Fisher.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

I’ve always had a pretty diverse set of interests but my plan was to major in political science and psychology in undergrad with the goal of attending law school. My perspective is that each day offers an opportunity to learn something new, whether reading a book or through lived experiences. First, trust the process.

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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.

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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. GTM’s Book of Customs, Traditions and Etiquette, Vol.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These three laws provide lessons for other states interested in accelerating the transition to a cheaper, cleaner grid. In September 2020, the utility filed for securitization of the unrecovered book balance on the 550-megawatt D.E. As coal collapses, securitization could rescue utilities and their consumers.

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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.

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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. The takeaway from the study: “many of the terms were unfamiliar or perceived as needlessly complex.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters.

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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.

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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. Working Toward Corporate Political Responsibility.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

The new laws are a victory for animals and the people who care about them. The laws apply to vertebrates, so pet octopi are out of luck. million unchipped pet cats need to start booking their appointments. Some animals could still use a little more help from the law. ’s 2.6 Overall, this is a big step forward.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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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”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. A few days later, RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws.

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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 These three policies still form the backbone of federal environmental law.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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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. So people read the book, they think great – How can I join in?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In doing so, Acciona’s stake in loss-making Nordex will climb to more than 36 percent, above the 30 percent ceiling that automatically triggers a takeover offer under German law. “This, in our view, should allow the company to navigate the turbulence in the aftermath of Senvion and execute its order book.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

” Quoting from my book Power Plays : “The group’s work culminated in the release of the National Energy Policy (NEP) in May of 2001. The Bush Administration passed a number of laws aimed at accelerating the development of fracking. oil and gas production.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

This is the most comprehensive book on the state of the art, science, and practice of local climate action planning. The guidance in the book is put in context of international, national, and state mandates and goals. The panelists are the authors of Climate Action Planning (published by Island Press).

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Earthhour occurs on the 27th of March.

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