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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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. There is $40 million from some state and mostly federal funding for weatherization and home health of low income households.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

That mechanism is part of the Clean Energy Jobs Act , a bill that combines a mandate for 100 percent renewables by 2050 with other policies pertaining to carbon reduction, electric transportation and job creation. “We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.

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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

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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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The team will be headed by Ed Miliband, following the surprise return to frontline politics for the former Labour leader and Energy and Climate Change Secretary. In the UK our polluted air contributes to over 40,000 premature deaths a year and poisons our environment, with greatest impact on children's health and people in poorer communities.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 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. Success in areas requiring strategic thinking and political shrewdness. Health and Dental Insurance. Strong data analysis skills.

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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."

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to educating and empowering the Indigenous community, the group aims to protect the environment, human health, and animals by promoting sustainable lifestyles and influencing policies that affect Indigenous Peoples at local to international levels. IEN is a grassroots effort started in the United States in 1990.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. In the face of a historic health and economic crisis, it is perhaps more important than ever.".

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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. Despite strict fines and penalties , many fishing vessels continue to overfish simply because of how hard it is to enforce these laws over millions of square miles of open ocean. of total global fuel consumption.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

Some low and middle-income countries use unsafe practices, which include burning circuit boards to recover copper, a process that releases highly toxic metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium causing severe health effects to workers as well as to the children who often live and play near e-waste activities.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

That is the urgent warning from the government's independent climate advisory body, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which today offered a withering assessment of Westminster's progress against its net zero agenda since the landmark target was passed into law almost exactly two years' ago.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Will improve public health. Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings. Political will. Is bound to create jobs. Jay Inslee.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

As such over 85 per cent of respondents said they felt that businesses with a strong commitment to sustainability should be prioritised for post-COVID government support, while investment should be primarily directed at the transport and logistics, manufacturing, and construction sectors where significant emissions reductions can be unlocked.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

When climate and nature objectives collide At first blush, the Albanian government's move to block new energy development in the midst of an energy crisis looks like a political minefield. Such habitats are also economically crucial, providing water for agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and transport. That's b t."

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AGreenLiving

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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AGreenLiving

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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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

I think Boris Johnson would be well served, as I've said many times publicly, to reconsider what was actually enshrined in law in the UK and go back to the 0.7 Paul Polman, Gordon Brown and the Prince of Wales are among those demanding ambitious green commitments from G7 this weekend – will world leaders listen?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

That alone will be of significant concern to green economy, given the government is set to spend the months through to the end of the year trying decide whether to keep or amend thousands of EU-derived UK environmental laws. Given agriculture accounts for almost 70 per cent of England's land mass, or around 8.9

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. Ships larger than 5,000 gross tons must calculate their CO2 emissions per unit of nominal transport work (e.g.,

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AGreenLiving

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. “Me and my five cousins, we all have asthma,” says Abe Francis, 15, of Sacramento.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. Electric transportation is expanding. People are taking notice. We also saw more data on the economic costs of a changing climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The impacts would be similar to the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, “in terms of level of releases and resulting damages to the environment, health, and safety,” the Multnomah County report concluded. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

To this end, the IPCC has recommended governments urgently press ahead with policies, laws, and strategies that drive near-term climate action, while working with the private sector to unlock funds that can help tackle climate change. There is a clearly a major business opportunity to be seized in developing climate solutions and services.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on. Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. Sustainability policies established. Promote ecotourism.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Piles of plastic waste, not a single English river clean enough to swim in, insects facing population collapse, land mismanagement leading to fires and floods , air pollution harming children's health - barely a week goes by without more dire ecological news. Here are six ways it can be improved: 1. We should do the same. Set an objective.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

He also is the co-founder and managing director of Our Hawaiʻi, which is building a multi-generational, multiracial, indigenous-led political movement for Hawaiʻi that puts local working families first.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. We’re fast approaching the point where our needs for food, space, and energy have stripped Earth’s reserves bare.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. This unaddressed inequality needs transparency and political accountability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tough talk over fixed deadlines, regulatory autonomy, and the UK government's apparent willingness to tear up the political declaration it signed only a few months ago has further raised already heightened tensions on both sides of the Channel. Paris Agreement and other global green treaties. European courts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Both local and national reporting indicate that the Navigator pipeline proposal attracted the attention of diverse groups of citizens often portrayed as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Nearly 50 people were hospitalized in that disaster, and continue to suffer from adverse health effects. Navigator’s $3.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Johnson hailed the deal - which the government claims is worth £668bn of trade, in 2019 terms - as a victory for the UK, which allows it to "take back control" over laws, borders, money, and fishing waters, while von der Leyen said the agreement meant EU rules and standards "will be respected".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. Elite Campaigners and Law Firms Lobby for Drilling. In addition, the industry’s reach keeps extending into state government as Gov.

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