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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. The post Politics and You ! REGISTER. ?

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. But that energy must be?actively?encouraged?and

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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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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Health & Safety Regimes and Public Confidence Safety is a key concern when dealing with a combustible gas such as hydrogen. Poor health and safety standards resulting in accidents, death, personal injury and damage to property could potentially deter the  industry from moving forwards. 

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Despite years of progress by leading corporations toward ESG, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental health and safety (EHS) and sustainability goals, the reality is that board members overseeing these companies are still trying to discern how all of this applies to them. Pull Quote.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

Most people think of technological or political solutions to climate change but the way our societies are structured, who has power and who does not, can have a profound effect on our actions. Women who are educated and employed earn more money, achieve career goals, and face fewer health issues.”

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These pollutants, which include particulate matter, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and toxic substances such as benzene, have been linked to health problems ranging from respiratory disorders to reproductive problems to cancer. As the U.S. California has done exactly that.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. tobacco companies faced along the way to a federal court judgment in 2006 for more than half a century of deceiving the public about the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. However, as CityLab puts it, the popular opposition to the repeal of the ban indicates that there is “widespread support for green urban policies even when the political pendulum swings right.”. Source: CityLab , El Pais.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The UK economy could enjoy a clean air dividend of £1.6bn if World Health Organisation (WHO) targets for air quality were met, a major new report has calculated. If businesses and government work together to ensure clean air for all, we can protect our health and re-energise the economy at this critical time.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Plastic production is expected to double in the next 20 years , and the climate and public health crises it creates are growing exponentially, too. We can’t allow that — environmental justice demands that we leverage our political power to stop the plastic industry from polluting, exploiting, and expanding in vulnerable communities.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Department of Justice to investigate whether Shell and other Big Oil companies’ “alleged campaigns of climate deception” may have violated federal law. The documents add to a heap of evidence that could spur the country’s most powerful public interest law firm to investigate Big Oil. “If A separate letter from U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. “It

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health. The post In D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.” C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including drought, famine, and ill health, according to the world’s leading climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

More broadly, scientists and environmentalists have documented a long list of negative environmental, health, and social impacts of fracking. Activists say the ban has pierced the methane gas industry’s image as an invincible force in Pennsylvania politics. “If Taken March 2021. Credit: Tim Resciniti.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. More than three dozen states and cities are suing oil, gas, and coal companies over their role in causing climate change. They’re important.”

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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. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Using the courts has become especially critical, say climate experts and lawyers, given the insufficient political responses to the climate emergency. “In A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday. Climate action is a legal duty!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The case is being led by the Good Law Project, with seafood business Richard Haward's Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm also acting as co-claimants. These sewage spills are threatening human health, biodiverse marine life and the fishing industry," she added. We're out of options. Our seas deserve better.".

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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. “We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The government confirmed it now expects the bill to resume its report stage in the Second Session of the year before passing into law in the autumn. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow stressed the delay did not "diminish [the government's] ambition for our environment in any way". "We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some of these facilities supply British and European seafood wholesalers, who in turn sell to supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and other retailers; caterers supplying pubs, hotels and restaurants, schools and universities; and the National Health Service, the four-year investigation found.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The Covid-19 virus, our personal health and safety and the response by the government and public health authorities are rightly occupying much of our work and home life at present. With the Bill having been debated in the Lords on 24 March, this important legislation is expected to become law very soon.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

President Biden has directed labor officials to draft laws that will protect workers under extreme heat conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been asked by the president to develop the new guidelines. These laws would be applied when temperatures reach a certain threshold deemed dangerous for workers.

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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.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Blank scholar at UC Davis School of Law. With the current social and political climate and the broader push for sustainability across all sectors, it is without a doubt that sustainable finance is integral to propelling us into the greener future. Marjan Kris Ramos Abubo. Energy markets, Procurement & Sustainability Consultant at E&C.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“By charging them, we can both seek to hold them criminally accountable and send a clear message to others about how seriously we take protecting the environment and public health.”. Under our state laws, if convicted, this company will be sentenced to fines and restitution. A Pipeline Plagued by Problems. It is not clear if Gov.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

There is an increased awareness of the link between our own health, and that of the planet.    Studies across the spectrum, from health to financial risk, remind us that it is in our best interests to look after nature. We know that a connection with nature contributes to well-being, and improved mental health.

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