Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Talks are also said to be on-going on easing trade barriers for electric vehicles and boosting access to climate finance for developing countries, with reports yesterday suggesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to sign off an increase in its climate funding for poorer nations.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles. But political action starts with public demand (at least in theory), so it’s an encouraging sign.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Fewer charge points for the soaring numbers of electric vehicle owners that the embattled auto industry has bet its future on? After a decade of flatlining wage growth and political turmoil, the UK is once again at a crossroads. Just ask Scott Morrison.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. Clean tech grows even more, especially electric vehicles. People are taking notice. Is there financial risk in taking a stand?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These pollutants, which include particulate matter, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and toxic substances such as benzene, have been linked to health problems ranging from respiratory disorders to reproductive problems to cancer. As the U.S. “Me and my five cousins, we all have asthma,” says Abe Francis, 15, of Sacramento.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black. billion years of evolution.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Now, after four-and-a-half-years of political turmoil and wrangling over everything from parliamentary sovereignty to the legal small print of fisheries agreements, the UK and EU have a trade deal, averting the very real threat of an economically disastrous cliff-edge Brexit. Electric vehicles. Is the UK prepared?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Both local and national reporting indicate that the Navigator pipeline proposal attracted the attention of diverse groups of citizens often portrayed as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Nearly 50 people were hospitalized in that disaster, and continue to suffer from adverse health effects. Navigator’s $3.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tough talk over fixed deadlines, regulatory autonomy, and the UK government's apparent willingness to tear up the political declaration it signed only a few months ago has further raised already heightened tensions on both sides of the Channel. Paris Agreement and other global green treaties. European courts.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles. But political action starts with public demand (at least in theory), so it’s an encouraging sign.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

"We are particularly encouraged by today's announcements on five-year funding settlements for city leaders to invest in local transport improvements, and by the additional investment in electric vehicle charging points, both of which are in line with our National Infrastructure Assessment recommendations. "We

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black. billion years of evolution.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from leading green figures in business, academia, campaign groups, and politics to the CCC's most important intervention of the year. UK government statement: "Any suggestion we have been slow to deliver climate action is widely off the mark.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It did all this on the back of months of inaction in the face of the worst energy security crisis in a generation, the appointment of several net zero sceptics to key Cabinet positions, and one of the most embarrassing and economically damaging periods of political incompetence in modern history.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 15, 2020

In the Mountain West, Colorado and Nevada lawmakers this year will consider policies that build on monumental clean economy laws they passed in 2019?—?laws laws that are already creating jobs and driving new investments in solar, wind, energy efficiency and clean vehicles. It’s also America’s ?2 2 state for solar.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Guterres' intervention echoes calls from a growing band of business and political leaders around the world for climate action to play an integral role in the planned wave of economic stimulus packages. "The current crisis is an unprecedented wake-up call," he explained. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Without a transition to electric vehicles we won’t cut our climate impact by nearly enough to avert a crisis,” Johann Beckford, policy adviser at the independent think tank Green Alliance told DeSmog. “As Parliamentary Influence MAG appears to have growing political influence. Liversidge did not comment on the record.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Biden has run on one of the most ambitious climate platforms in US political history, pledging to take the country back into the Paris Agreement and set a net zero emissions target for 2050. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies. We worked for years to reduce car use," Marco Granelli, a deputy mayor of Milan, told the Guardian. "If

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

On his second day in office, President Biden signed Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis. Although it will take years for some of these actions to impact oil supplies, the political impact was felt immediately. President Biden executive orders.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. By 2030, that figure could rise to over 300,000 metric tons, driven largely by a booming electric vehicle market. In 2020, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

trillion infrastructure package, which would include enormous investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and public transit, along with roads, bridges, and water infrastructure. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental law when it issued a permit for the pipeline in the early days of the Trump administration.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes. So even if U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

At the same time, California leads the nation in solar rooftops and electric vehicles on the road by a wide margin and ranking fifth in installed wind capacity. A major factor holding lawmakers back is, of course, politics. Overcoming a "third-rail issue" in California politics. Clean energy is the state’s future.

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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

In his first State of the State address , a little over a year ago, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine took time out to recognize his “amazing” health and human services team, asking them to stand in the House Chamber of the Statehouse for applause. They’ve done a good job in keeping distance, by and large, but we have to continue to do that.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“You did this,” the president told me as I thanked him on behalf of E2 for creating and signing into law the most important climate and clean energy policy in history. “No, business leaders, workers, environmental, health and social justice advocates, labor unions, tribal communities?—?all The day before I was in Washington, D.C.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Myriad other issues also compete for voters' attention, and climate change often takes lower billing on the US political agenda than it does in Europe. Some of the policies are aimed at areas that can reduce future emissions: the target of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030, for example.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the CNN debate on July 30th, the first group of ten randomly assigned candidates discussed subjects including: the climate crisis, the Green New Deal, fossil fuels, renewable energy, electric vehicles, agriculture, science, and Republican denial. It is health. We have to act now. It is national security. It is our economy.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A new analysis shows that even after the Dieselgate scandal, Europe’s carmakers prioritize profit ahead of people’s health. In November 2022, the European Commission proposed a new law, known as Euro 7, reducing allowable pollution from cars, vans, buses, and trucks. The […]

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Second rebate competition from President’s Investing in America Agenda builds on nearly $1 billion investment that will put thousands of clean school buses on the road

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 10, 2023

How North Carolina can leverage the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act (BIL) to secure climate, health, and economic benefits for all

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 28, 2022

This article comes from a guest writer who knows a thing or two about law enforcement and connected technologies. This article is provided for informational purposes only, is not legal advice, and CleanTechnica does not encourage readers to violate laws in the state they live in.

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