GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S. EU’s new chemical policy vision.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

This ambition has now been turned into action, with the government confirming that a number of key policies will be made law. ” The post Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows now law first appeared on Envirotec. a duty on water companies to publish data on storm overflow operation on an annual basis.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 23, 2020

She joins our staff as Policy Manager. Her work has focused on fossil fuel infrastructure and land use for the past five years, as an environmental policy researcher at Sightline Institute. from Vanderbilt University Law School. She was also a member of the Black Law Students Association and Legal Aid Society.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The government is facing yet more legal action over its environmental strategy, after a coalition of green and health groups today formally submitted a complaint to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) alleging Defra has acted unlawfully by missing the legal deadline to set new targets through the Environment Act.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Ambitious draft climate law would immediately ban new oil, gas and coal projects and end subsidies for fossil fuels. The draft law, which parliament must still approve, follows the Spanish government's declaration of a climate emergency earlier this year. per cent over the next decade.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. The government said the Act would provide a boost to the farming industry after years of "inefficient and overly bureaucratic policy dictated to farmers by the EU".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 17, 2021

Federal Policy Director | CalStart | Washington DC. CALSTART is seeking a Federal Policy Director to advance our work nationally. Advancement of policy is a core CALSTART strategy to grow the industry. The FPD will: Lead and manage CALSTART’s federal policy (legislation) and regulatory matters.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 17, 2021

Vice President, Policy | CalStart | Washington DC. CALSTART is seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and results-oriented Vice President to lead industry stakeholders and partners in government to develop and implement policies that support clean transportation at the national and state levels. About CALSTART.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. g/m 3 , against a recognised health standard of 10?g/m

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But the law is too lenient. The charity published details of 18 local authorities who have emerging BNG policies above 10%, and said that these success storties “show that there’s real appetite among Local Authorities to go further for nature, but there’s a real risk that without support many areas lose out on this opportunity.

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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. The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date.

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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. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction. But "it doesn’t feel like anything is changing.". Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

As millions of voters across the EU prepare to head to the polls from 6-9 June, conspiracy theories and misinformation on food and farming could pull voters towards the far right and parties opposing climate-friendly laws. In the eyes of its critics , green reforms agreed in the last EU term would destroy farming.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. Evidence of the pubic health problem presented by PM2.5

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s going to take much more action and accountability to develop policies and programs that truly grapple with the crisis at hand, but here’s one step forward the Legislature took last session and how our coalition was involved. For more about how we do policy and the outcomes of this session, check out this previous blog entry.)

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

COVID-19, says the group, is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and although it is believed to have its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities, says the report released on 29 October.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yet in response to a Freedom of Information request to see any assessments, evidence or policy papers detailing progress towards the 30×30 target, Defra could provide nothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million households – lacking easy access to nature (and the huge health and wellbeing benefits that come from it), the voluntary organisations coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has warmly welcomed new Green infrastructure Standards from Natural England (announced on 31 January). Let’s get these standards in law.”

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

All The Wildlife Trusts along the route of the River Wye are calling for: Welsh and English Governments to place an immediate policy moratorium on any new or extended intensive livestock production units (poultry, cattle and pig) in the Wye catchment.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

By Sameer Ranade , Civic Engagement and Policy Manager. It contains 26 policy recommendations spanning four categories on how state agencies can incorporate EJ into their responsibilities. The Environmental Justice Task Force (EJ TF) report with recommendations on how Washington State can achieve EJ has been released!

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Growth Management Act (GMA) is a state law that requires this work, and it’s really important! Finally, in the 2023 legislative session, we saw progress on policy. When it became law in 1990, the GMA aimed to protect critical areas and ecosystems in our state. What is the Growth Management Act, and why is it important?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We Major changes in law, education and academic institutions could strengthen media and scientific literacy and promote transparency around emissions. which was funded by a $2.9

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ted Boutrous of law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher , an attorney for Chevron and chief architect of Big Oil’s legal arguments in these cases , said in a statement that “addressing climate change requires a coordinated international policy response, not meritless local litigation over lawful and essential energy production.”

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Now an administrative law judge has given the proposed policy a green light, ruling that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) can move forward with plans to adopt the Clean Cars Minnesota program. In 2019, Minnesota announced plans to join the 14 states that enforce their own strict vehicle emissions standards.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

vii] Carpet made with PVC backing releases dioxin when burnt, which is a known carcinogen, while a recent report by the Center for International Environmental Law in the US stated that incinerating plastic waste ‘releases toxic substances including heavy metals such as lead and mercury, acid gases and particulate matter’.[viii] ix] Hilton, M.

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