The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Guardian Australia revealed on Monday that the NT government abandoned a proposal to set net zero rules for direct emissions from new onshore gas projects after companies including Santos and Inpex objected, according to documents released under freedom of information.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If But that energy must be?actively?encouraged?and encouraged?and

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DeSmog documented meetings held by six MEPs from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in parliament. Around 20 percent of the MEPs’ meetings were with unregistered groups, and at least one in six meetings documented by DeSmog was not declared on the parliamentary website.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

The proposal seeks to allow for a new categorical exclusion for geothermal drilling in situations where drilling has occurred in the last 5 years or drilling will occur within an area with an approved NEPA-pursuant environmental document within the last 5 years. This will mirror existing categorical exclusions under the NEPA.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Human rights and press freedom organizations , international bodies , and courts worldwide have documented the rising legal threat of SLAPPs. On July 25, both NGOs received an emailed “request for mediation” from Eni.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

A 2019 water quality assessment of Deer Lakes Park by a scientist at Duquesne University documented the presence of chemical contaminants associated with fracking, offering evidence that in the lone instance where the gas industry drilled beneath a county park water was contaminated. Taken March 2021. Taken March 2021. Credit: Tim Resciniti.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Piecemeal Change and Change in Law Risk There is an increased likelihood of piecemeal change when adapting existing regulation. This results in an increase in the frequency of change in law provisions being triggered.   Who should bear Change in Law Risk?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In September 2019, a group appeared on the Brussels political scene pledging to “bring back a balanced debate” about the benefits of meat and dairy. DeSmog’s analysis of PDF documents on the Meat the Facts website found that employees from AnimalhealthEurope were linked to multiple public documents published by European Livestock Voice.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. This number is calculated based on EIA documents, periodic factory monitoring and online monitoring data of a factory. Policy & Politics. Environmental capacity. Contributors. Christopher Hazen.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

corporate and securities laws. Policy & Politics. The sheer racism of a $25,000 threshold for submission (no matter the holding period) in a country with a racial wealth gap like ours is stunning. Some stakeholders envision a more systemic shift. Shareholder Activism. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

Misinformation has featured strongly, as I have documented. After the UK parliament passed more stringent carbon targets in 2019, setting in law the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, questions about the climate effects of the mine mounted. The war in Russia may provide political cover, but hasn't changed the fundamentals.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense.

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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.” Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing. The post In D.C.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. The Commission is likely to have found a target that is achievable and politically palatable to all member states. While some member states were already happy with a 40 percent goal, some environmental groups wanted to move to 65 percent.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs. Public Order Bill.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang to 10 fish processing plants in the coastal province of Shandong since 2018. government has described China’s actions in Xinjiang as a form of genocide.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In 2020, independent watchdog FracTracker Alliance analyzed many of the problems with the Mariner East 2 construction, documenting more than 300 spills of drilling muds. Under our state laws, if convicted, this company will be sentenced to fines and restitution. Danielle Friel Otten (@RepDanielle) October 6, 2021. Wolf will act.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

We can’t allow that — environmental justice demands that we leverage our political power to stop the plastic industry from polluting, exploiting, and expanding in vulnerable communities.” Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources and senior adviser for Beyond Plastics. “We

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Expanding environmental enforcement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Criteria for gas plants’ inclusion in EU green finance rulebook set out in official documents are less stringent than leaked proposals, sparking fierce criticism from environmental campaigners. The proposal will now be scrutinised by EU governments and the European Parliament, which must approve it before it becomes law.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

And we will not be able to hide behind EU law when there are difficult decisions to make or indeed blame the EU when things don't work. Tackling environmental challenges requires a long-term approach and political commitment to that journey - even when the political cycle can be short term.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In October of this year, the captain of that supply ship, Giuseppe Sotgiu, paid a heavy price for his decision: an Italian judge sentenced him to a year in prison for violating humanitarian law. testing the moral character and political imagination of countries better prepared to survive an overheated planet. Reporting on migrants.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. I think that’s the typical example of that political exchange that went on.” Many — including the Platform on Sustainable Finance — say that’s where it falls short.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis. Exhibit A: law firms. But, hopefully, lead. Suffice to say, the jury is out.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Industry has lobbied hard to ensure these targets don’t become law. The industry often claims that green targets are “ political ”.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis. Exhibit A: law firms. But, hopefully, lead. Suffice to say, the jury is out.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Even after liability is transferred to the state, the original owners or operators maintain responsibility for any violations of underground injection control laws that occurred before the transfer. Furthermore, Louisiana’s revised regulations contain a significant caveat regarding liability protection.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One main reason for the increased investment is that renewables–notably utility-scale wind and solar projects–are the cheapest to build and to operate over the course of their lifetimes, said David Spence, professor of Energy Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He expects that advantage to grow bigger every year. “I

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. “When I first read the letter, I nearly cried.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

There is historical precedent for this, as the tax credits have a documented history of proliferating solar and wind. The result has been other political bodies acting within their own limited authority. There are still several steps between now and law - but in this exact moment, it seems anything may be possible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. Effective contracts can provide a legal framework to drive climate action and cut emissions without waiting for policymakers to pass laws.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We found that degradation in water quality progressed to potentially lethal levels for aquatic life — documenting thousands of instances in which chronic and acute water quality thresholds were exceeded between 1985 and 2015,” the researchers wrote. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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