The upsides and downsides of Maine's new EPR law
GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2021
The governor of Maine recently signed an extended producer responsibility program into law. But there are still plenty of issues to hash out.
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GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2021
The governor of Maine recently signed an extended producer responsibility program into law. But there are still plenty of issues to hash out.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 5, 2023
A recent landmark law agreed upon by EU member states is set to ban imports of goods linked to deforestation.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
New year, new laws. Since California is often on the cutting edge, let’s take a look at some of the state’s new laws that are going into effect in 2023. This is just a sample, not the whole list.
GreenBiz
APRIL 4, 2023
Another month, another progressive policy announcement from the European Union, this time aimed at stamping out greenwashing by companies operating within its borders.
Business Green
MAY 11, 2023
Laws, regulations, treaties and decisions related to habitats, air quality, climate change, renewable energy, farming and fishing proposed for scrapheap under government plans
Charged
MAY 11, 2023
EV advocacy group FairCharge is calling for the UK to change what it calls outdated laws that are holding back the EV conversion industry. By law, the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is required to retain CO 2 emission ratings in vehicle logbooks for all cars built after 2001, even if they’ve been converted to electric power.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Peacocks in southern Florida could be pushed from their habitats after the Miami-Dade commission loosened a law protecting them. On Tuesday, the commission voted to allow cities to opt-out of a 20-year-old law protecting the peacocks.
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.
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.
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.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Supply chain transparency is crucial to building consumer trust in the face of greenwashing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2022
It will impose new sustainability requirements on all businesses manufacturing single-use packaging or plastic single-use service ware.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
GreenBiz
MAY 11, 2023
The nation’s historic climate law is packed full of goodies. Are some of those goals cutting itself short?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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