Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth". he asked on Twitter.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. These demands “were essentially to adjust the technical screening criteria for gas investments to be included in the taxonomy.”. “And ” Henry Eviston, WWF European Policy Office.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Policy Advisor for Nuclear Power | Third Way | Washington DC. Third Way is seeking a Policy Advisor who can work as part of our team on national advocacy work supporting advanced and existing nuclear power as a key tool to address climate change and provide well-paying jobs to American workers. Requirements.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 30, 2021

Senior Policy Advisor for Nuclear Power | Third Way | Washington DC. Third Way is seeking a Senior Policy Advisor who can lead national advocacy work supporting advanced and existing nuclear power as a key tool to address climate change and provide well-paying jobs to American workers. Job description.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As the new 2050 target, now enshrined in law, is to reduce emissions to net zero, it is important to distinguish between gross zero and net zero. Objections to nuclear power can be seen as an antecedent to the current debate around GGR. This is especially acute for demand-side policies.

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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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. While it’s a policy specific to the EU, the interconnected nature of shipping means it will have ripple effects throughout the fleet. The biggest shipping companies (i.e.,

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel. Transmission.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers. And 46 U.S. About the Authors.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They have a mission that includes some aspects of sustainability and often have sustainability programs, policies and initiatives that require professionals to help implement and manage them. This table summarizes the 4 basic types of roles a company may have related to sustainability: Chief Sustainability Officer. Sustainability Engineer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss seek to burnish green policy credentials as Tory leadership contest edges towards final fortnight – but beyond the rhetoric, how much more have we learned?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They have a mission that includes some aspects of sustainability and often have sustainability programs, policies and initiatives that require professionals to help implement and manage them. This table summarizes the 4 basic types of roles a company may have related to sustainability: Chief Sustainability Officer. Sustainability Engineer.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This progress is not the result of any particular pro-EV policies of the state government. In a related development, Florida Senator Jeff Brandes recently wrote an op-ed in which he called for utilities to eliminate peak demand charges for EV charging stations. The Florida charging bill may not become law this year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

That doesn’t mean, however, that renewable energy groups and states pursuing clean energy policies now support the broader changes that FERC’s December order has forced on PJM, including the controversial minimum offer price rule (MOPR). in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned. What comes next.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil. Shell lost little time in suggesting the report’s projections of looming overshoot and collapse were too bleak.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. ” Wilkinson returned to this dilemma in his conclusion, again noting the dangers posed by “emissions and discharges” caused by fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

An effort to overturn Ohio’s controversial nuclear bailout law via voter referendum suffered a setback this week, after a federal judge denied the group's request for more time to collect signatures to put it before state voters next year. A high-stakes energy policy battle turns nasty. District Judge Edmund A.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. EV fleet and reinvest in gasoline cars, citing low demand and high repair costs for EVs. of global emissions.     U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. Absent any future changes in law, the PTC will be reduced to zero starting in 2022. Solar tax credit impacts.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

’s board of directors has terminated CEO Charles Jones and two other senior executives, saying in a Thursday statement that an internal review committee determined the three “violated certain FirstEnergy policies and its code of conduct.” Mike DeWine.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions also fell in other industrial sectors and residential buildings that year due to a warmer winter and lower demand for heating, but CO2 from the transport sector continued to increase, largely driven by growing fuel consumption from passenger cars on Europe's roads. Russian parliament approves law to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

⚡ Elyos Energy , a London, UK-based energy flexibility and demand response platform, raised $3M in Seed funding from Rebel Fund, Zeno Partners, Endgame Capital, and Y Combinator.   Meanwhile, OPEC is diverging from the IEA’s prediction that the world will reach peak oil demand in 2030. to $86.83 / barrel.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. On the demand side, economic revival from the pandemic boosted demand for gas in Asia as well as Europe. The Swiss pulled out and two Russian vessels completed the line despite sanctions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under that plan, offshore wind farms will almost certainly be priced out of the market, but state-subsidized onshore wind, solar power, nuclear power and demand-side resources may be able to win approval for bids low enough to clear. Solar and wind power trade groups also support a quick resumption of the auction.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Danly, who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Chairman Kevin McIntyre, graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique. The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The subpoena that House Democrats sent on Monday to Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and key figure in the Ukraine scandal, included demands for records of Perry’s trip, and any communications DOE may have regarding the phone calls between Trump and Zelensky at the heart of the impeachment investigation. In a Tuesday letter , Sen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said.

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