Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

Environmental and health and safety law imposes certain duties on site operators which, if not complied with, can result in legal proceedings, fines and reputational damage. Criminal liability for environmental offences can arise in the event of a regulatory breach. Liability and legislation.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

And as extreme weather events become more rampant, it’s increasingly important that farmers have the resources they need to integrate climate smart agriculture practices to ensure our communities have a reliable food supply. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lenlee recently helped organize Colorado Rising’s second Outdoor Series event in partnership with Patagonia. Maliyah Womack jumped into organizing Our Climate, Our Action, Our Climate’s first annual Earth Day art activism event. You can check out our organizer Morgan’s recent reel to see how it went!

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Lenlee recently helped organize Colorado Rising’s second Outdoor Series event in partnership with Patagonia. Maliyah Womack jumped into organizing Our Climate, Our Action, Our Climate’s first annual Earth Day art activism event. Keep your eyes peeled this August when Maliyah will be hosting a community block party in D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. James Black History event on February 2, 2022. And on November 3, voters in Louisiana overwhelmingly rejected the ballot initiative. A few days later, RISE St.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Analyzing the Bill The new law protects access to power and water for families who are facing shutoffs for falling behind on their utility bill payments, and it requires that reconnection services be available for households who have already been disconnected during extreme heat. Late morning.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

"Finance professionals make up a fraction of the global population but are positioned to make and incentivize decisions that can shape the trajectory of the global economy," observed Ogechukwu Anyene, energy consulting manager at PowerAdvocate, who was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at GreenBiz Group’s inaugural GreenFin event.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

In January, Delaware’s Superior Court denied oil companies’ motion to dismiss the state’s case against them while granting a few concessions, including that out-of-state emissions were the territory of the Clean Air Act, beyond the limits of state law. Emissions that originated in Delaware, however, were fair game.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

However, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal associations placed strict laws to help limit the use of this potential carcinogen. Long-term inhalation of asbestos fibers can be extremely hazardous as it may lead to numerous health concerns like mesothelioma. When Was Asbestos Banned?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

.” “Despite warm words and promises to listen to health professionals and worried parents,” she said, “when it comes to the crunch, they have chosen to let the public down.” in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity. Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

The outcomes of the proceedings, experts say, could significantly advance climate justice and accountability as well as clarify the requirements under international law for governments to curb climate breakdown. Switzerland , is brought by an association called Senior Women for Climate Protection Switzerland and four individual elders.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Extreme weather events are a defining feature of the new, changing climate. The unpredictable nature and the widespread impact of such events pose a myriad of risks to contractual counterparties. As such, climate-change-related events may adversely impact contracting parties' ability to fulfill their contractual obligations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A new law paves the way for policy advancements and there’s more work to be done For over 80 years, the cosmetic industry has been deeply underregulated. New research provides additional evidence that these exposures are also linked to health disparities.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A report released from the London Flood Review concluded the capital’s Victorian sewage system can’t handle the extreme weather events. Sewage in water is not just a growing public health concern but has the potential to cause harm to the natural environment. The best of these models was able to correctly predict an event 91.5%

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. A spokesperson from Bayer’s crop science division said: “Like all companies, Bayer may establish partnerships with influencers to promote information or events.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

I would urge everyone involved in today's event to join the Race to Zero and commit your region, city or company to reaching net zero by 2050 at the latest.". We must all do our part," Sharma added. "I Stop doing this, because it's killing us," she said.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It integrates three key concepts: environmental health, financial viability, and social and economic justice. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law. The Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

The strategy notes that recent global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions, and climate change have highlighted vulnerabilities of the UK’s essential supply chains. The strategy thus focuses on ensuring reliable access to critical imports for present and future needs. 3 Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It is why we were created in the first place, why we worked on identifying the social determinants of environmental health , and proposed legislation to require Washington state to incorporate them in prioritizing the application of environmental laws. On the use of the Environmental Health Disparities Map. Entre Hermanos.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war. section 7).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2021

The Iowa Environmental Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit environmental law and policy organization that educates, advocates, and builds coalitions to make Iowa a better place to live, work and explore. Represent the organization at events; engage with clean energy and climate supporters and acquire contact information to meet sign-up goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Mid-January saw the widely-anticipated announcement of a new Better Regulation Committee , led by the Chancellor, which will drive a programme of regulatory reform, identifying EU-derived laws for the scrapheap. Proposals to deregulate the UK labour market have also faced fierce criticism from across civil society.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. Recent events in Madrid indicate that, for now, the tide is running in favor of limiting cars in city centers. Paris and Amsterdam have ambitious plans to banish dinosaur burners by 2030. Source: CityLab , El Pais.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

For decades, there was no reliable way of evacuating people in the event of a severe storm; the only way on or off the island was by small plane or boat, neither of which are available or safe during high winds, storm surges, and inundation. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

At an event in Parliament on 23 March, Jenkyns said : “Personally, net zero, I think we need to ditch these targets, especially at the moment, and use whatever resources we’ve got under our feet. She described herself on Twitter last month as holding “no-to-net-zero views”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But conservation charities decry 'pattern of inaction' over past 15 years that could see waterway health worsen before it improves. The government faces a major challenge to improve the health of England's waterways. Yet, for too long we have allowed our rivers and lakes to become poisoned, decimating aquatic wildlife and habitats.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Those disclosures are required under Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act, an anti-corruption law requiring companies to report payments to governments and other entities. That’s according to recent federal disclosures, which show that CNRL gave $200,000 to the Indian Resource Council between 2020 and 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report blames a litany of governance failures, which have been exacerbated by exceptional events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, for creating "a lack of coherence in environmental strategy and policy within Defra and across government.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But the bribery scandal has driven a wedge between the utility and state lawmakers, while the COVID-19 pandemic forced the legislature to curtail much of its work this spring and focus on responses to the public health crisis. path to profitability, we will have to shut them down.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. These are exactly the places where people are already struggling with pre-existing health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollutants like benzene.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Europe’s Green Deal.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

On June 11, the California Public Utilities Commission plans to vote on a proposed decision that would greenlight PG&E’s plan to secure up to 450 megawatts of mobile generators to back up communities during public-safety power outage events this summer and fall.

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