DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. Continued innovation and investment will see this hurdle cleared in time.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. The only vehicles allowed in the central zone are cars belonging to residents, delivery vehicles, taxis and public transport. In 2018, the Spanish capital banned all non-resident cars from the center.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Biden’s Administration Commits a Total of $65 Billion to Investments in Clean Energy The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law under President Biden’s administration has earmarked $65 billion for clean energy investments through the Department of Energy (DOE).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. California has done exactly that.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. million, $91 million in electrification, to build two 144-car hybrid electric ferries and to convert a regular ferry to a hybrid electric model.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Producing hydrogen at a centralized hub then supplying to on-site refueling stations or transporting to external customers is very well suited to hydrogen. Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Read more “fiction to reality” based on past Imagine contests ] “It’s unrealistic to think that regulation can work on its own,” said Matto Mildenberger, an assistant professor and researcher who specializes in climate politics and political drivers of policy inaction.

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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

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

That mechanism is part of the Clean Energy Jobs Act , a bill that combines a mandate for 100 percent renewables by 2050 with other policies pertaining to carbon reduction, electric transportation and job creation. “We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Transport Bill.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

And research has found that in most cases it may be cheaper and more effective to use renewable electricity to power industry directly, rather than divert it to the energy-intensive process of producing green hydrogen — sometimes likened to “champagne” to reflect its scarcity, expense and high-end use case. Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The NIC - the UK's independent infrastructure advisory body - set out a number of recommendations today in its annual assessment of government progress towards key infrastructure priorities, including boosting transport connectivity and decarbonising the energy system. to switch off in January after the failure of a Western Link HVDC.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft's policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week. Policy & Politics.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

The first will be to extend its reach beyond European heavy industry, air transport and electricity generators to cover surface transport and buildings. Europe imports electricity from Russia, the Ukraine, and the western Balkans. This won't happen immediately. That process will involve long and tedious negotiations.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Would make electricity more dependable. The Wild Horse wind and solar farm east of Ellensburg, Washington on Whiskey Dick Mountain generates electricity for suburban Seattle utility Puget Sound Energy.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Give businesses the clarity and certainty they need to invest in the switch to electric vehicles."

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Starting in 2025, the credits would become technology neutral and apply to all carbon-free electricity generation technologies (today the ITC applies to solar and the PTC applies to wind), Jesse Jenkins of Princeton's Zero Lab explained on The Catalyst podcast. Yet in the past three decades, the Senate has failed to do anything comprehensive.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Despite strict fines and penalties , many fishing vessels continue to overfish simply because of how hard it is to enforce these laws over millions of square miles of open ocean. Further, the shipping industry responsible for transporting seafood near and far has a higher rate of pollution than all but five countries.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

There had been numerous misgivings voiced by political figures and lobby groups over the 2035 target date in recent weeks - not least from Germany's finance minister - but having secured some modest concessions, including a commitment to review the target date in 2026, consensus was found.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Major new report warns government urgently needs to set out credible strategy for decarbonising transport, buildings, agriculture, and industry. In June 2019, the UK government committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, becoming the first major economy to enshrine such a commitment in law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

That's because the electronic and electrical products we all own, from laptops and phones, through to refrigerators and kettles, often contain very small quantities of valuable metals, such as gold and silver, most commonly within their printed circuit boards. You probably own more gold, silver and platinum than you think.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Or you had somebody explain to you that you can actually get electricity from solar and wind. That most likely became a core tenet to your beliefs as an adult.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

That is the urgent warning from the government's independent climate advisory body, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which today offered a withering assessment of Westminster's progress against its net zero agenda since the landmark target was passed into law almost exactly two years' ago.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Or you had somebody explain to you that you can actually get electricity from solar and wind. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation?—?we

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target?

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The study, Who finances the plastic flood?

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But if the green agenda does not provide economic growth, it will ultimately not have political support and it will be self-defeating. "It is in this light that we can achieve our commitments to net zero by 2050, as dark satanic mills are replaced by onshore and offshore windfarms.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

degree (honors) in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied international political economy at the University of Copenhagen. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Susan received a B.S. Veena Ramani.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. The law to accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development is expected to be presented this year. The Economy Ministry stated that the plan is to present the law to fast-track hydrogen this year. Take our fun and engaging Hydrogen Quiz now!

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