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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What does the EU’s new anti-deforestation law mean for business?
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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Powering Up Californians Act Is Signed into Law
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Governor Newsom approves new law that will prepare the electrical grid and reduce the time needed to energize EV charging stations and electrify buildings.
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How to get ready for the new EU sustainability due diligence law
GreenBiz
MAY 28, 2024
The European Union finally passed the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. Here’s an early look at how CSDDD will affect corporate supply chains.
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New California laws for 2023 that may affect you
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.
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Scientists Condemn Last Minute Push to Overturn EU Nature Law
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
At the eleventh hour, right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the EU’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”. Scientists have condemned the call, as well as six other amendments that could see the law delayed or weakened.
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How U.S. tax law is driving higher transport emissions
GreenBiz
MARCH 12, 2024
The tax code incentivizes the purchase of private jets and large SUVs, which is at odds with U.S. climate priorities.
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Groundbreaking California Law Will Create Innovative Pathways for Social Housing
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 26, 2023
million stable, affordable homes for California’s most vulnerable residents just became law. The visionary social housing study bill that identifies pathways to 1.4
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California proposes $1.7 billion for climate disclosure law
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2024
Companies will be required to report their emissions and climate-related risks to their business.
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Pathways Alliance Website Scrubbed Ahead of New Greenwashing Law
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 20, 2024
CAPE, along with other Canadian environmental groups such Ecojustice, Equiterre and the Quebec Environmental Law Center, worked together on the proposed greenwashing amendments over the last year and a half. This law will merely ensure that companies do not make false environmental claims.
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Canada passes clean hydrogen investment tax credit law
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 26, 2024
The new law will provide developers with tax rebates as high as 40 percent on project costs Canada has just passed a major clean hydrogen investment tax credit (formerly known as the C-69 bill), which will provide H2 developers with tax rebates as big as 40 percent off their project costs when they develop within the country.
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California proposes $22 million for climate disclosure law
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2024
Companies will be required to report their emissions and climate-related risks to their business.
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Proposed UK law pushes accountability for Amazon products
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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Law & Order: Youngkin Now in Court for Illegal Assault on Climate Law
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 11, 2023
It’s time for Youngkin to stand in court and explain himself for attacking state climate law. It won’t be easy for him to evade his constitutional responsibility.
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Technology denial: Columbia Law School debunks 33 biggest myths about solar, wind and EVs
Renew Economy
APRIL 15, 2024
Columbia Law School researchers identify 33 of the most pervasive myths about solar, wind and electric vehicles and rebut them using transparent, fact-based responses. The post Technology denial: Columbia Law School debunks 33 biggest myths about solar, wind and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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European Parliament approves law requiring solar installations in buildings
PV Tech
MARCH 13, 2024
The European Parliament has approved a law requiring member states to deploy solar installations on buildings and renovate them to improve their energy efficiency.
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Egyptian President Signs Law Promoting Green Hydrogen Production with Significant Tax Incentives
FuelCellsWorks
JANUARY 30, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has ratified a pivotal law, Law No. 2 of 2024, aimed at incentivizing green hydrogen production projects and its derivatives. This landmark legislation grants up.
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Peacocks in precarious position after Miami loosens laws
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.
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Swiss approve law boosting renewable energy generation
TechXplore
JUNE 10, 2024
Switzerland approved a law on Sunday aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energies, as part of the country's bid to attain carbon neutrality by 2050.
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Draft laws usher in compulsory climate risk disclosure
Renew Economy
JANUARY 11, 2024
Draft laws for mandatory reporting of climate-related risks have been released by federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The post Draft laws usher in compulsory climate risk disclosure appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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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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Advocates call for UK to change outdated laws regarding EV conversions
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.
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Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 13, 2024
One of the members of a Senate committee that reviewed the draft laws, independent senator Lidia Thorpe, said the legislation “should be setting off alarm bells” because “it could mean that Australia becomes the world’s nuclear waste dump”.
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Michigan signs 100% renewables by 2040 target into law
PV Tech
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Gretchen Whitmer has signed a number of bills into law to increase the contribution of renewable energy to the Michigan energy mix.
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Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act is signed into law
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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Revealed: Ads Urging Canadians to Oppose Climate Laws Paid for by Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. Screencap from ad that doesn’t disclose CGA’s connection.
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New York State passes law to facilitate deeper geothermal drilling
ThinkGeoEnergy
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The law implements key recommendations of the Climate Action Council and is an important step toward the state’s goal of 2 million electrified and electricity-ready homes by 2030. “We are thrilled that Governor Hochul has signed this bill into law.
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Australia’s stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. We have a cart, but no horse
Renew Economy
APRIL 17, 2024
Without reformed environment protection laws, the Safeguard Mechanism – the government’s main plan to drive down emissions from large polluters – won't work properly. The post Australia’s stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. We have a cart, but no horse appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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A year in, New York’s pioneering public power law makes uneven progress
Canary Media
MAY 3, 2024
One year ago, New York state passed one of the country’s most ambitious clean energy and climate justice laws. The Build Public Renewables Act authorized the New York Power Authority, a state-owned public power utility, to build and own clean energy projects for the first time. If the state falls short of its…
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Retained EU Law Bill: Government places hundreds of UK green laws on the chopping board
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
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ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back
Renew Economy
JUNE 7, 2023
ACT votes on law to ban new gas connections for homes and businesses, in a major coup for electrification and a new blow to the fossil fuel lobby. The post ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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NYC’s big building-decarbonization law faces its first major test
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Local Law 97, New York City’s groundbreaking, multistage effort to rein in carbon emissions from its big buildings, is facing its first major test — and it’s just a preview of the much steeper challenges to come. Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) released proposed guidelines for how owners of the…
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Chile approves exemption of shallow geothermal from existing concession law
ThinkGeoEnergy
JUNE 27, 2024
With this, shallow geothermal systems are, by law, excluded from the concession system. The approved standard also updates the law on the safety of geothermal operations and establishes a new supervisory entity.
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NSW passes climate bill to write 70 pct by 2035 emissions reduction target into law
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The post NSW passes climate bill to write 70 pct by 2035 emissions reduction target into law appeared first on RenewEconomy. In a triumph of multi-partisanship, NSW Parliament has passed legislation to cut the state's emissions by 70% by 2035, and reach net zero by 2050.
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Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws
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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“Tough cop on the beat,” or new plod enforcing old “broken laws”? Labor’s EPA gets a grilling
Renew Economy
MAY 28, 2024
The post “Tough cop on the beat,” or new plod enforcing old “broken laws”? Legislation to set up Australia’s first national environment protection agency promises strong new powers and penalties to protect the natural environment. Critics are not so sure.
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Queensland writes clean energy and climate targets into law, but LNP baulks at “risky” renewables
Renew Economy
APRIL 18, 2024
The post Queensland writes clean energy and climate targets into law, but LNP baulks at “risky” renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy. Pressure grows on federal Labor as Queensland passes ambitious 2035 emissions reduction target with bipartisan support. But LNP refuses to agree to renewables target.
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis, Manufacturing, and Recycling
Energy Central
MARCH 16, 2024
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis, Manufacturing, and Recycling Manufacturing, and Recycling FOA Selections FOA # DE-FOA-0002922 Hydrogen America
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Climate disclosure laws are useful, but they won’t drive down emissions
Renew Economy
MARCH 7, 2024
Australia’s mandatory climate disclosure laws might nudge corporate Australia towards a greener future, but they won't drive rapid decarbonisation. The post Climate disclosure laws are useful, but they won’t drive down emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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EU passes supply chain audit law after prolonged delays
PV Tech
MARCH 18, 2024
The EU has approved a law which will require companies to audit their supply chains for environmental damage and human rights abuse.
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Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change
Energy Central
MAY 31, 2024
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather.
Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.
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Get Ready For California’s Three Sweeping New Climate Disclosure Laws
POWER Magazine
MARCH 12, 2024
Can a requirement that only applies to big companies, or companies that do business in California, actually impact […] The post Get Ready For California’s Three Sweeping New Climate Disclosure Laws appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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SwitchedOn Podcast: Why laws governing embedded networks urgently need reform
Renew Economy
MARCH 10, 2024
The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Why laws governing embedded networks urgently need reform appeared first on RenewEconomy. Developers are locking customers into inflated energy prices they can’t escape from for years.
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