Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 26, 2020

officials have proposed a law to make large companies operating within the U.K. comply with environmental laws and show where their products originate. People around the world have watched with increasing horror as Amazon forest destruction has accelerated in recent years.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The result is a home designed by KLAR for this family of four with an additional structure that will serve as an in-law's quarters. The client's request was clear -- include a simple architectural design, the ability to manually assist in the build and wood as a primary building material.

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Law 167

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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supply chain transparency is crucial to building consumer trust in the face of greenwashing.

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Europe Law 451

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Scotland will host world-leading experts in climate change law and science in September, as they attend a major conference on global climate at the University of Dundee. We hope that by bringing together experts from geoscience, climate science and law, we can clarify crucial concepts that have thus far stalled affirmative climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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Packaging Waste Waste Europe 89

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October. The post Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws first appeared on Envirotec. RCA has also been granted costs protection under the Aarhus rules for environmental claims.

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Law 238

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Renewable energy can take advantage of this huge increase in computing power, along with artificial intelligence (AI), robotic deployment, and automation, in a way that fossil fuels cannot.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In a bipartisan win, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act has been signed into law, making serious harm to “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians” a federal crime.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2023

But more than 1,000 EU-derived laws are still set for the chop this year and it remains unclear how many have climate and environmental policy implications

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Eco-Business

MARCH 5, 2023

As long as the law does not recognise it as transnational organised crime, the illegal trade of wildlife will continue to flourish in Indonesia.

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Law 79

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2022

It will impose new sustainability requirements on all businesses manufacturing single-use packaging or plastic single-use service ware.

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Plastics Law Packaging Sustainability 348

Eco-Business

APRIL 12, 2023

A colonial-era law legalised the exploitation of forest resources. Can new legislation change the fortunes of Bangladesh’s fast-depleting green cover?

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Law 79

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Environmental and business groups urge government to ditch plans for bonfire of retained EU law ahead of Commons debate today. Prevention of air and water pollution, protection of precious wildlife and habitats, precautions against hazardous chemical use - they are all put at risk by the Retained EU Law Bill," he said. "If

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 29, 2022

The post Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies appeared first on The Green Living Guy. Miami Beach, FL – July 19, 2022 – Blink Charging Co. is a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services.

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Electric vehicle Law Electricity Government 145

U.S. Green Technology

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The post Why Sustainability is the Future of Law appeared first on U.S. As well as the health of the planet itself, social inequalities and persistent and pervasive poverty issues demand the attention of all. Green Technology.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 6, 2023

Estimated 200,000 vehicles including 70,000 big rigs have been banned from California roads starting this week. This follows the final adoption of 2010 a rule banning vehicles that do not comply with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

global warming threshold set out in the Paris Agreement risks societal turmoil that could lead to the end of the rule of law. To the contrary, a stable climate is the foundation for a stable civilisation and the rule of law. Paris temperature goal thus threatens disorder and the end of the rule of law.". Breaching the 1.5C

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been awarded to 20 companies across 12 states for extracting and processing lithium and graphite, battery manufacturing and the demonstration of new approaches. The DOE has announced that a total of $2.8

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

EU Retained Law Bill proposes ditching around 300 green laws this year, while handing Ministers powers to 'weaken environmental rules with impunity' going forward, campaigners warn

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Law 41

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2023

The nation’s historic climate law is packed full of goodies. Are some of those goals cutting itself short?

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Law 389

GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2022

These five areas of grid and clean energy investments are receiving $1.2 Trillion in funding for everything from battery R&D to transmission lines to residential energy costs.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law a bill that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks in the state by 2035. Sources: Bloomberg Law , Reuters , GM Authority. The bill (S.2758/A.4302) 4302) was introduced last October, and passed the legislature in April.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2021

While eating meat is the norm in the U.S., many people wish farm animals a happier life pre-burger. Which is why Californians overwhelmingly passed animal welfare initiative Proposition 12 in 2018.

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The City Fix

MAY 6, 2022

President Biden has touted the potential climate benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic investments in transportation, the country’s largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But while the bill’s investments could significantly lower transportation emissions, those reductions are not.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said the government had not been consistently completing legally-required Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of environmental and other related laws, which it warned risked undermining environmental protection efforts and accountability in the UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The analysis outlines how the new Bill would impact 3,700 domestic laws retained from the UK's time in the EU, of which 1,800 relate to the environment including rules covering everything from drinking water and air quality to habitat protection and chemicals safety.

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Charged

MAY 28, 2021

Texas’s state legislature meets only every other annum, and this year it will end its session without changing its auto dealer franchise laws, as John Voelcker reports in The Drive. Tesla sure would appreciate changing the law, so that this is not required! Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2021. Source: The Drive.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

Under the law, which still awaits the governor’s signature, Massachusetts must reduce emissions 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 75 percent 1990 levels by 2040. The state will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and carbon offsets may play a role. Biden campaigned on a plan to push the U.S.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A new version of China’s most important law on wildlife conservation and use omits the legislative goal of preventing risks to public health and throws open the doors to captive breeding of wild animals.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

What happens next could have broad implications, since UPMIFA is a uniform law that every state in the U.S., This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal on Mar 22, 2021. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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Charged

APRIL 21, 2023

A bill currently making its way through the California legislature would require all new EVs sold in the state to be equipped with bidirectional charging capability by 2027.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 30, 2020

Businesses will not face any repercussions for polluting American air, land or water, as long as they can claim their practices are related to COVID-19.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

The post Property industry likely to be breaking the law by failing to disclose air pollution levels first appeared on Envirotec. 1] From “addresspollution.org data analysis”, Central Office of Public Interest, March 2021. [2] 2] “Air-Pollution and the Residential Property Market”, Jessica Simor QC, Neil Fawcett, March 2021.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 7, 2021

There is the problem of plastic pollution, climate change, the death of animals, insects, and flowers,… Read More How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment. The post How Eco Laws Benefit the Environment appeared first on Green Living Guy. There are so many environmental issues that seem to have no solution at all.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A European Union law blocking imports of several commodities—from coffee to timber—to protect forests hailed as 'historic'.

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Law 79