Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Xiaotong Zheng, a meteorologist at the Ocean University of China, and international colleagues argue that this extraordinary heating is the result of a dramatic cleanup of Chinese air pollution. The idea that cleaning up air pollution can worsen atmospheric warming sounds counterintuitive. The death toll would just be too great.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government has appointed a law firm with a history of defending fossil fuel companies over environmental disasters to provide legal services for the upcoming COP26 climate summit. While DLA Piper highlights its environmental credentials in the announcement, the international law firm — whose global revenue last year was over £1.5

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

The many faces of energy resilience. This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. Large corporate energy buyers and utilities, in particular, hold the opportunity to build better and make things right. Michelle Moore.

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Financial Times: Energy

MAY 26, 2024

Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as effluent pollution climbs political agenda

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In a year when clean energy and clean vehicle jobs were supposed to increase by some 175,000, we are down by half a million jobs. On this episode of The Energy Gang, we will tell you why, and explain the numbers. Then: Did New Jersey just pass the most sweeping environmental justice law in the country? Bloomberg : Most U.S.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 30, 2020

VICTORIA—Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to save thousands of dollars on fuel and maintenance costs while also cutting pollution—a win-win for all of us. is a place that wants their cars.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. As the U.S.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2019

VICTORIA—Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statements in response to the B.C. Not only do electric cars help cut pollution and clean up the air we breathe, in B.C. This new law will help ensure supply keeps up with demand, making it easier for people to go electric while helping B.C.

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Mosaic

APRIL 10, 2023

Creating green energy jobs 3. Fueling energy efficiency projects 4. The Inflation Reduction Act has the potential to save 103 million households $37 billion a year on energy bills. The landmark legislation is fueling not only a movement of energy efficiency and clean energy alternatives, but the job market, too.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. When lobbying firms represent both the polluter and the people experiencing pollution, it represents a pretty clear conflict of interest,” he said.

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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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Charged

MAY 23, 2022

This 500 big ones represents the first round of funding from the $5-billion investment authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This historic investment under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will forever transform school bus fleets across the United States,” said EPA Administrator Michael S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Want to find out more about how contract law and litigation can help drive forward the net zero transition? They allow you to take a recommendation or ambition - for instance net zero as defined by the Oxford Principles - and code it into law into a way that is legally enforceable.". You can sign up for a free pass now.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The GWPF has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. The GWPF is based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, which has housed a number of libertarian groups that are opposed to clean energy policies and climate science.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 30, 2019

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada and former co-chair of the Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council, made the following statements in response to the B.C. The post New law will hold B.C. government accountable for climate action appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.

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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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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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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 10, 2024

The Make Polluters Pay Campaign issued a press release warning that the deal could further consolidate the oil industry’s power and delay a transition to clean energy is urgently needed. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been stepping up antitrust reviews for energy companies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The scheme works by setting a maximum overall cap on the amount of carbon emissions that the energy and manufacturing industry can emit.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These criteria include biodiversity impact, pollution impact, carbon impact, readiness level, costs, trade-offs and scalability. They are a climate regulator and a provider of food and energy, and also support tourism and millions of jobs.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That includes building a just and regenerative energy system that puts the health and well-being of current and future generations first at every stage of the energy process, from generating power to lighting and heating our homes. It is indisputable that taking action now is far less costly than putting it off.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Across 2023, 12 major oil companies and industry lobby groups attended meetings 102 times with ministers in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which leads the government’s climate change and energy policy. Households want lower bills, energy security and an economy fit for the future.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online. Weather disasters supercharged by climate change have already led to more power outages in the US.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. But these 26 cases are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to fossil fuel pollution. A desperate attempt by big polluters to delay the transition to renewable energy.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s not just the question of what fuels we use to power our economy, but to what purpose we apply our energy. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. Gaping Gaps.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Last month, Colorado’s Senate Transportation and Energy Committee approved SB 23-16 — a wide-ranging bill that strengthens Colorado’s commitment to cut statewide climate pollution beyond 2030. It would put new targets in law requiring cuts of at least 65% by 2035, 80% by 2040, 90% by.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

There was a failure to carry out a lawful consultation exercise. Incineration does not pay for the burden that its pollution places on society and there is currently no requirement for operators to reduce carbon emissions. “I This is wrong in law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Once completed, the Trans Mountain Expansion will allow more responsibly-produced Canadian oil to reach key markets in Asia and beyond,” claimed one ad from the Canadian Energy Centre, which according to Facebook analytics reached an estimated audience size of over one million people. 350 million (C $463 million) for energy research.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends. Map of the 11 chemical recycling plants in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Clean Energy Group (CEG), a national nonprofit that works on clean energy and climate, announced the retirement of Lewis Milford, its founder and president. Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation.

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