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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

GreenBiz

federal statutes and regulations, many state laws increasingly rely on the chemical hazard criteria and analyses from REACH (the principal European chemical regulation) and other EU laws and regulations. Further, the new EU chemical strategy identifies a wide array of initiatives for realizing its goal of a toxic-free environment.

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Could the EU's Fit for 55 programme unleash a new wave of climate litigation?

Business Green

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

AGreenLiving

federal statutes and regulations, many state laws increasingly rely on the chemical hazard criteria and analyses from REACH (the principal European chemical regulation) and other EU laws and regulations. Further, the new EU chemical strategy identifies a wide array of initiatives for realizing its goal of a toxic-free environment.

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Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

Business Green

The CBI reckons the UK has lost out on £4.3bn of green growth to its European competitors, making bolder climate action an open goal for a Labour Party that is looking to woo business leaders For much of the past decade the green economy has provided the government with a genuine success story with which to answer its many critics.

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Digging into the complex, confusing, and contentious world of soil carbon offsets

Business Green

Everyone was polite, but it's clear that divisions run deep. We have to think of it as an insurance and risk problem," said Danny Cullenward, a lecturer at Stanford Law School and policy director of CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that evaluates climate solutions. "Is I've been talking to people in this area for several months. Coffee ready?

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Europe’s Energy Transition: Can Renewable Energy Communities Lead To Greater Energy Justice?

Energy Innovation

Against this backdrop, Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine is now dramatically altering Europe’s energy equation with some European governments pledging to accelerate their shift to renewables in a bid to break from reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. National and regional government responsibilities.

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