GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

A circular approach to electrification and renewable energy. While electrification and renewable energy are key to decarbonizing the economy, the growing demand for solar PV may be creating a new problem. Taylor Curtis: One of the pillars of NREL’s strategic objective is focused on creating a circular economy for energy materials.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Mapes, the Founder & President of the Digital Energy Council.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

.” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids. The only way to mitigate those risks is to cut emissions at speed and scale and strengthen the grid – and that requires public policy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

How cities can influence the energy system. cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Heather House. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:45.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The case specifically challenges a 2011 climate protection law, claiming it is ineffective and outdated, and therefore infringes upon children’s constitutional rights. For years, Fridays for Future has been demanding the revision of the Climate Protection Law in order to (finally) establish compliance with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rights Community Action and Good Law Project launch legal action against government policy that restricts councils' ability to set higher energy efficiency standards for new homes

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast of episode 127 of the Building Local Power Podcast , host John Farrell speaks with guest Jean Su. Farrell and Su discuss how legal advocacy for energy democracy can overcome utility barriers to a renewable energy economy. Originally published at ILSR.org.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It doesn’t go unnoticed when a Southern state takes a stand on clean energy. But saying you’re supportive of renewable energy standards and carbon-free electricity is much different than actually making it happen, as Virginia is beginning to take steps to accomplish. In April 2020, Virginia Gov.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement after the federal government tabled legislation holding it accountable to meeting its climate targets: “Climate targets are important signals in the fight against climate change, but promises are nothing without accountability and a plan to meet them.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Leading energy firms call on Brussels to deliver 2050 net zero target 'across all policy areas', as nearly 100 suppliers pledge to better engage customers with the energy transition. This predictability would be enhanced by setting an intermediate target in 2040 aligned with EU's climate action framework.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Biomass power stations, such as Drax in northern England, burn wood pellets to generate electricity – which is treated in the EU and UK as a renewable energy source if the process meets certain sustainability criteria. Campaigners are now calling for MEPs to end subsidies for the burning of forest wood for energy.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The post Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canadian Climate Policy Can Go to Trial, Court Rules appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2023

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. EU rules impose limits on this practice to prevent it from being used as a pretext for excessive preventative use.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

German government proposes new goal to slash emissions 65 per cent against 1990 levels by the end of the decade, as revamped French climate law moves forward. Reuters reported reforms to German's climate law to enshrine the new targets could go to Cabinet as early as next week.

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Financial Times: Energy

JANUARY 17, 2024

Independent adviser says parts of existing green plans must be passed into law as soon as possible

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Energy Transition

JANUARY 16, 2024

The campaign was dominated by other issues: the surveillance of opposition politicians by special services, the role of state-run media, migration policy and the unprecedented enrichment of politicians from the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said the government had not been consistently completing legally-required Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of environmental and other related laws, which it warned risked undermining environmental protection efforts and accountability in the UK.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Crypto miners have successfully blocked the Department of Energy’s (DOE) survey of Bitcoin’s energy consumption in the US. There’s some early evidence that Bitcoin mining has already affected the US energy system.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 23, 2020

She joins our staff as Policy Manager. Tarika is a regional expert on fracked gas, petrochemicals, and the impacts of dirty energy. Her work has focused on fossil fuel infrastructure and land use for the past five years, as an environmental policy researcher at Sightline Institute. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Ambitious draft climate law would immediately ban new oil, gas and coal projects and end subsidies for fossil fuels. The draft law, which parliament must still approve, follows the Spanish government's declaration of a climate emergency earlier this year. per cent over the next decade.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050. The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

Opportunities in favor of transmission include policy planning projects to interconnect renewable projects, the need for reliability in the MISO South region, and additional proactive planning approaches to address the capacity needs of local resource zones at MISO. MISO North has renewable opportunity but Right of First Refusal (ROFR) laws.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2019

Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 13, 2020

Governor Ralph Northam is accelerating Virginia’s transition to clean energy by signing the Virginia Clean Economy Act and by amending the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act that requires Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. </span> appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections. The Bill has become a cause celebre for arch-Brexiteers within the Conservative Party, who are keen to see the government bring an end to any EU influence over UK laws as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As incentives and mandates collide with real-world conditions, there are sure to be pinch points the clean energy sector must navigate. The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. These policy signals are historic and come not a moment too soon.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

Nikki Reisch, climate and energy director at the Center for International Environmental Law, argued that businesses have legal obligations to stop causing climate-related harms, whether or not governments are fulfilling their own obligations. Legal experts dominated the three-day hearing, held from April 23 to 25.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Dave Anderson , Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Some of those same energy companies, and their trade associations, have for years lobbied for the use of the Defense Production Act to bail out struggling coal plants.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do. The bill is transformative far beyond the renewable energy sector, with policies around utility ethics reform, transportation electrification, and pollution reductions.". The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act heads to Gov.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

The White House has proposed a new rule to streamline permitting for clean energy and other infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to conduct an environmental review before approving any… This story was first published by Grist.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Colorado Energy Office is set to launch the Geothermal Energy Grant Program later this year, likely no later than the 14th of November. Earlier this year, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the framework for new state regulatory approvals that enable expanded power generation from geothermal resources.

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