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The Energy Act 2023: What it is, what it means and when it will take effect

Envirotec Magazine

Eleni Diamantopoulou is Practice Development Lawyer (Energy) at Womble Bond Dickinson. Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April. The 2018 Three ?

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

GreenTechMedia

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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? Ammonia goes from fertilizer to fuel #180

Climate Tech VC

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.

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Car bans, carbon markets, and greener buildings: EU states find common ground on key climate issues

Business Green

Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for the energy transition - who led the negotiations - hailed the agreement on the Fit for 55 package as "a crucial step in attaining our climate objectives". And for continental Europe's closest neighbour, the news is likely to have a major impact.

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Rhetoric on Justice Still Scarcely Impacts Governor’s Climate Budget

Front And Centered

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. Again, funding directed to a heavy polluter and an extremely energy-intensive industry. There’s also $ 323.9 million proposed.