Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Promising a wide range of measures, from tougher air quality requirements to setting standards to shape the evolution of a circular economy, the announcement set out a roadmap for making the EU more sustainable across almost every sector of the economy, with special attention to things like energy, agriculture and transport.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Credit: Modern Electrics/Hathi Trust While researching the economics of clean energy innovation , I came across a little-known story: that of Canadian inventor George Cove, one of the world’s first renewable energy entrepreneurs. A clean energy future seemed to be there for the taking. Harnessing sunlight, 114 years ago.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) uses electricity to cool air until it liquefies, so it can be stored until an opportune moment arrives when it can be brought back to a gaseous state and used for power generation. Katie Smith of law firm Reddie & Grose LLP examines where the approach fits into the energy storage landscape.

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Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

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. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the action being brought by the local council and campaign group, Protect Dunsfold, against the Government which gave the project the green light. The Government failed to take this requirement as its starting point, as it should have done, explained a press release from the Good Law Project.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

It helps drafters to find climate clauses and sustainability solutions that can be applied throughout the entire building lifecycle, according to the collaborating partners behind it, UK law firm TLT and The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). TCLP publishes a breadth of freely available precedent clauses for use with a variety of sector contracts.

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Real Estate Law Climate change Sustainability 243

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The film was favourably reviewed by commentator Toby Young in The Spectator magazine, who described it as “a phenomenon”. Those suffering during the cost of living crisis have seen their energy bills increase by nearly £2.5 Young has previously said that he’s sceptical about the idea of human-caused climate change.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Education Law 126

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Since the 31st of January and until the 5th of December, the European Commission is conducting consultation on various product categories that will be impacted by this law, such as textiles and footwear, furniture, cosmetics, aluminum, plastic and polymer, paper, and glass.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

There was a failure to carry out a lawful consultation exercise. This is wrong in law. The excuse presented by the Government, that the scheme has been designed in this way to make Brexit easier, is not a lawful reason for ignoring international climate change commitments.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The growth-at-all-costs mini-budget was unveiled by the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on 23 September, headlined by energy support packages described shortly afterwards as “generous” by Ramboll MD Philippa Spence. 3bn for boosting energy efficiency is promising,” said UK100, “but it’s unclear if this is new money and not just repackaged promises.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

IEMA’s CEO Sarah Mukherjee also noted “new commitments on emissions reductions and renewable energy”, and of course, she added “the significance of Brazil’s return to the world stage as a climate leader cannot be overstated.”. Today, developed countries do all that they can to avoid that promise.

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Fossil fuels COP Law Politics 279

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Commentary from recycling company Geminor The national BEHG tax on CO2 emissions, which is likely to be introduced from the new year, will be imposed on the local energy recovery industry. However, it is reasonable to assume that the new tax will create challenges for the energy recovery industry in Germany.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They are a climate regulator and a provider of food and energy, and also support tourism and millions of jobs. While there is a way to go to reverse the decline, this shift is gaining momentum following regulatory change such as the EU Nature Restoration Law in July 2023, and greater investment in nature-based solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

A 1988 issue of the company’s corporate magazine Ecos – widely read by employees and executives – warned that continued use of “fossil sources” of energy would produce a “greenhouse effect that could lead to climate change with devastating effects on the entire earth’s ecosystem.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050. One quarter of the UK’s homes and businesses are sited on former coalfields.

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Energy Energy Carbon Climate change 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. A central plank was the policy paper “Powering Up Britain” , which presented plans for tackling energy security and net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

But gas grid executives gathered in Berlin this week to lay out a survival strategy: Retool their infrastructure to turn clean-burning hydrogen into the engine of Germany’s energy transition. In the worst case, this could come in the way of energy transition and electrification.”

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Minnesota utility Xcel Energy was fined one million dollars in late January for exceeding a maximum number of customer service complaints as a result of significant delays in its processing of interconnection requests for solar projects. by Gwen Brown, Interstate Renewable Energy Council.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

According to his parliamentary register of interests, Lord Theodore Agnew has shares of at least £100,000 in Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned energy producer. Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Investment Carbon 118

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences On 15 August the Environment Agency launched a consultation on changes to variable monetary penalties – financial penalties that can be imposed for certain environmental offences.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. and Suncor Energy Inc. Chevron Corp.,

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

It will also mean more UK material going to landfill and energy from waste, which is lower down the waste hierarchy. ” Sir James had also reportedly said: “The law is clear on what can be exported under what conditions. ” Simon Ellin addressed this remark: “This is nonsense from Sir James. .”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET, has welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to revise the waste shipment regulation to reduce waste exports and treat municipal waste in Europe under EU standards, but calls for coherent and clearer rules for intra-EU shipments.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. The ESO accounts for the relative reliability of various energy sources using a “de-rating factor”, which is a measure of the probability a particular power source will be available when the ESO asks for it. When demand exceeds supply, the lights go out.

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Nuclear Power Demand Electricity Law 130

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. He says that it works as advertised.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Whitehall may be dominated by the response to the coronavirus crisis, but that has not stopped the government from forging ahead with plans to better incentivise firms to invest in energy-saving equipment. Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said the extension would "give businesses greater clarity and security at a time when they need it most".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. g/m 3 by 2040, in addition to a 35% reduction in population exposure to PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Steyn, who was then a regular guest on Fox News, quoted and amplified Simberg’s charges in the National Review, a prominent conservative magazine. Steyn is representing himself at the trial, while Simberg’s attorney is from the corporate law firm BakerHostetler.

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Patents Law Climate change Energy 133

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. In March, it was announced that 15 applicants would share £37.9m

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The US President has waged a war against energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs, washing machines, boilers, cars - and now even showerheads, writes Andrew Warren. This is just part of his repeated false complaint that toilets, taps, and other household fixtures have all been ruined by energy efficiency standards.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The results suggest an economy of scale for emissions as growth typically brings more efficient energy and transportation infrastructure, but a diseconomy for liquid waste. Cities tend to deviate from the universal scaling law as they grow wealthier.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

They have also been used in the calculation of an Electric Vehicle Country Attractiveness (EVCA) Index 1 by energy consultancy Cornwall Insight and law firm Shoosmiths. The UK now has one publicly accessible charge point for every 11.2 The number of public charge points is expected to increase again through 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

He also promised to look at how trees burnt for UK energy are sourced, as reported by The Telegraph on 6th November. The letter argued that the contract was entered into under the Energy Act 2013 for the project to be treated as generating a form of low carbon energy. MWh at current rates.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 12, 2021

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

There are many wonderful and inspiring regenerative practices now emerging and indeed well established, as recently pictorially demonstrated in the Guardian’s overview of Icelands innovations to reach net zero , on energy, food, buildings transport and lifestyle. Wildlife Trusts: [link] ). Something to Read. Something to Listen to ….

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030. Jon Hourihan, CEO of Eco Charger, said: “By choice or by law all industries will soon have to decarbonise. Transport is the largest emitter of UK carbon emissions.

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