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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss writes that current environmental policies should be scrapped in favour of a “free market” approach. The book also spreads false claims about climate policies.

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Government sets out new targets on air quality, water pollution, waste and woodland cover

Envirotec Magazine

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. g/m 3 to 10 ?g/m

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Policy Advocacy Fights the Risks of Climate Change

EDF + Business

.” 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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Why Polluters’ Greenwashing Works and How to Fight It

DeSmogBlog

The study found that a one-time exposure to two 30-second fossil fuel ads containing greenwashing was enough to positively influence individuals’ opinions of the industry’s efforts around transitioning to renewable energy. That’s how PR strategies work.” What Constitutes Greenwashing? Greenwashing isn’t a new strategy.

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BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show

DeSmogBlog

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do.

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Turning action into law: government’s accountability legislation a critical step

Clean Energy Canada

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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