DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The Covid-19 virus, our personal health and safety and the response by the government and public health authorities are rightly occupying much of our work and home life at present. With the Bill having been debated in the Lords on 24 March, this important legislation is expected to become law very soon. million signatures.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now, a new peer-reviewed study , published in the journal PLOS ONE , highlights how one particular form of fossil fuel extraction has pummeled the Appalachian region’s rivers and streams, including the Elk River – waters that the diamond darter and dozens of other endangered species call home. Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself. 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". "The

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Oxbow’s founder and CEO is billionaire William “Bill” Koch, a member of the Koch family who has historically maintained a lower profile than his politically active brothers Charles and David , who passed away in 2019. spoke about Port Arthur, climate change, and Oxbow’s air pollution in front of the Biden White House in October 2021.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The accidental removal of an active orbiting satellite could easily be viewed as military aggression and lead to political conflict. However, this framework neglects to address the detrimental consequences of polluting ocean environments with junked satellites, which could be seen as a violation of marine law.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Now it is home to sharks, seals and seahorses. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. That could have severe geo-political consequences. Inconvenient truth two: Climate change may make things worse before they get better.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Several houses near her home remain vacant. It's also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice Kristoffer Tigue Mon, 07/06/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. That is the narrative.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. That’s partly the result of more Americans feeling the effects of climate change in their daily lives.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. Overall, it was more positives than negatives.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. utility can be said to be close to that vision — or not outside a few fortuitously supplied and forward-thinking outliers like Vermont’s Green Mountain Power. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The human suffering and economic turmoil of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the impacts of climate change-driven heatwaves and wildfires, have given humanity little reason to celebrate the year that’s coming to a close. FERC Order 2222: distributed energy as a grid resource comes of age.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Usually the biggest environmental news pertains to climate change at the global level, or local pollution problems such as lead in the water pipes. Wildlife,” on the other hand, seems always to be waiting in the political wings. Wildlifers come from both sides of the political aisle and from all over the ethical map.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He nonetheless empowered federal prosecutors to investigate “irregularities,” but the 16 federal prosecutors in charge of monitoring the election told Barr there is no evidence of substantial voting irregularities. ANWR is home to the Gwich'in people, it is a heritage site and the largest such refuge in the U.S.

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