DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Inadequate bonding requirements means there is a serious gap in available funding to properly clean up after the fossil fuel industry. Enormous sums of taxpayer money and money meant for public schools, along with the long-term health of our lands, are on the line.”. According to the report, it could cost as much as $8.38

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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. With the release of the U.S.

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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. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. Weld County also employs Capitol Solutions, a lobbying firm it shares with the Kiewit Corp., she said. “I

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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. The Deeper Decarbonization Scenario shows California can rapidly cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while creating jobs and improving public health.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chicago last week brought the newest lawsuit against Big Oil companies for spreading disinformation about the climate-warming hazards of burning fossil fuels — adding the third largest city in the U.S. to the growing list of state and local governments pushing for oil and gas majors to be held accountable in court.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. The law firm Jones Day frames ISDS climate claims as “an opportunity – if brought in the right forum – for companies exposed to certain climate-related government measures to vindicate their rights.”

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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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. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Now is the time for strong, decisive and progressive policy and leadership." Legislative certainty is vital for business planning.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Oddly, these public-spirited citizen journalists never mention the far greater environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction, nor do they seem to consider the fact that e-mobility supporters are in the business of reducing environmental damage, whereas the oil and gas industry has amply demonstrated its indifference to the issue.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. We call for robust legislation, an end to greenwashing, and strict accountability for these major polluters.” which was funded by a $2.9

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 22, 2022

As we’ve discussed before , multiple cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have tried to ban fossil fuel hookups for new buildings by zoning or other ordinance over the past few years. As we noted then, in order for municipalities to restrict or ban fossil fuel connections, [T]he legislature must move first.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Yet experts and advocates agree that chemical recycling doesn’t work, and when it does, is mostly used to create more fossil fuels to be burned. Plastic production is expected to double in the next 20 years , and the climate and public health crises it creates are growing exponentially, too.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

policy interventions and subsidies are poised to address upfront vehicle costs. Impacts on health and well-being Low-income households surveyed who had lost access to a car noted, too, that it impacted health care and caregiving responsibilities because they no longer had a car to access medical care or to bring children to school.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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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. to achieve efficient and sufficient Energy for All.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." supported $1.316tr in transactions for the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation. DEMELLE That’s incredible.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This can leave a lasting impact on the health of our oceans as well as communities who rely on fishing for stability. Reduce fossil fuel use. Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. Some sections included safety information and tips on energy conservation, but many others promote natural gas, describe its benefits, or position gas as a clean alternative to dirtier fuels. “The

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rather than requiring California and Québec to meet Washington standards, Ecology this week announced it is prepared to offer up legislation this coming session that would weaken the Washington law.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

The Washington State Senate passed a bill on Friday that would require Washington utilities to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of fossil fuels to power our electricity grid. Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law. The goal should be clarified as a mandate. More about SB 5116.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

In March 2020, 16 youth plaintiffs filed suit against the state, alleging that by enacting policies that promote fossil fuel production, the state government violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. “Montana is a big emitter of fossil fuels and is contributing to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy.

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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. See Table.).

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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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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