Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Akerman, a top-100 US law firm with over 700 employees, has launched three new teams under the umbrella of its Energy and Infrastructure Sector Team, focusing on renewable energy and other high-tech infrastructure.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law one year ago, ushering in a new and promising marketplace for carbon capture tech, heat pump manufacturing and clean energy.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co2 emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On October 7, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping series of climate and environmental laws into effect, cementing the Golden State’s reputation as a leader in climate action. The law covers over 5,300 companies that make over $1 billion annually. Big business in the Golden State has expressed opposition to the law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. The Climate Change Act legalised the UK’s commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. She adds that “the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 28, 2021

In New York City, the Climate Mobilization Act was designed to cut down carbon emissions dramatically. This Act will not only apply high penalties for building with high carbon emissions but also negatively impact the energy grades of the building. Local Law 33 – Importance of Building Energy Upgrades. No data submitted.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon capture has long been criticized as too nascent, too expensive, and too distracting. So what does this commercial launch signal for the carbon-capture industry? And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Is that changing?

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

German government proposes new goal to slash emissions 65 per cent against 1990 levels by the end of the decade, as revamped French climate law moves forward. Reuters reported reforms to German's climate law to enshrine the new targets could go to Cabinet as early as next week.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. Its approach involves drawing carbon directly from the air and burying it, but others sink it in the ocean.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon capture has long been criticized as too nascent, too expensive, and too distracting. So what does this commercial launch signal for the carbon-capture industry? And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Is that changing?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Good Law Project is supporting Rights Community Action to take Michael Gove’s levelling up department to the High Court. A separate Good Law Project campaign has also seen more than 4,000 people email Gove’s office to raise their concerns about the policy. This will be costly, wasteful and an enormous headache for homeowners.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Good Law Project, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth will bring their legal challenge of the Government’s threadbare net zero strategy to the High Court, in a hearing due on 20-22 February 2024. The UK’s 2050 deadline to reach net zero and the carbon reduction targets that apply along the way are legally binding.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors?

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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.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With five-year milestones, progress reports that are made public, and an independent advisory panel to offer expert advice, this law will help ensure all sectors are on track toward a net-zero future. “We The post Turning action into law: government’s accountability legislation a critical step appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The regulations aim to provide a legal framework for China’s carbon allowance trading market by strengthening requirements and designating responsibilities. By Hui Xu , Paul A. Read the Client Alert.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“The materials you put in the building will be there forever, they cannot be decarbonized,” said Victoria Herrero-Garcia, an engineer who analyzes the carbon used in buildings over their life cycles for Ambient Energy in Denver. In the case of cement, the very chemical reaction at its heart generates massive carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the next few weeks, the Washington State Department of Ecology is set to deliver a decision on whether to turn Washington’s cap and trade program into a carbon über-market tying our climate future to California and Québec. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is lighting the way for the next generation of musicians, reducing the school's carbon footprint, and complying with Local Law 97 with the help of Con Edison's.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As negotiations at the COP28 climate talks in the United Arab Emirates head into overtime, oil and gas interests are aiming to exclude a fossil fuel phase-out from any final deal by promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a viable climate solution. “Every investment in CCS provides a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry.”

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

The law - which is open for consultation from today - would cover key agricultural commodities including soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, and leather. However, some campaigners argued the new law does not go far enough. The consultation on the new law will now run for six weeks.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2024

The state passed a law to protect coastal salt marsh half a century ago , which means that now, though Georgia has just 100 miles of coastline, it’s home to half a million acres of salt marsh — the second-largest amount of salt marsh in the country and a third of the marshes on the East Coast.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Of almost 1,700 adults polled, 68 per cent said they supported setting a target date in law to remove all deforestation from UK supply chains, with just four per cent opposed to such a move, according to the survey, which was commissioned by WWF. Further details on the proposed legislation are expected to emerge in the coming months.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows. The study shows that IPCC recognizes a role exists for carbon capture technologies. Celsius or well-below 2°C – the targets established by the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The “responsibly-produced” oil that will be pumped through Trans Mountain could release 15 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. It’s a ridiculously ineffective program,” Drew Yewchuk, a lawyer with the University of Calgary’s Public Interest Law Clinic, told DeSmog.

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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. Mind you it’s a global trend!

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Think big but start small.

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FuelCellsWorks

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Pittsburgh-based Catalyst Connection will receive funding from infrastructure law to support clean energy manufacturers in the region. Funding will support manufacturing of renewable energy, hydrogen power, low-carbon and decarbonized power,

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Goods imported into the UK from countries with a lower or no carbon price will face a levy by 2027. Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). Davies , Michael D.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

A group of six of Europe's largest energy companies have today written to the EU, calling on it to fast track plans for a new climate law that would require the bloc to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt,” the company said in its recent annual report. TWh, with corresponding annual emissions of at least 22 megatons of carbon dioxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

climate law – the Inflation Reduction Act – is one good marker for setting ambitious standards, so long as it is supported by a rigorous methodology that is yet to be released. The top tier of clean hydrogen in the new U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List sets out the approved host countries, carbon crediting programmes, and methodologies that meet the established Eligibility Criteria in Singapore. The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation.

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